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This is St. Mary's of Pulborough. It is an old church and Pulborough
is an old community. The original church on this site was Anglo-Saxon
and it was here between 1120 and 1220. The "new" part was
added to St. Mary's in 1440 as noted by the demarcation line in the roof
line and extending to the high west end structure. (We are looking
from east toward the west.) The surrounding cemetery contains Freeman
ancestors, but the gravestone inscriptions are now illegible. Just
behind me when taking this picture is "Stane Street" which was
built by the Romans to connect the English Channel at Brighton to London on
the north - about 50 miles. Taken to the north just 9 miles leads to
Billingshurst, another area inhabited by the Freemans from late 1620 to
January 1627. Before those time limits, and afterwards too, the
Freemans inhabited Pulborough, although Edmund Freeman, the Immigrant to
Saugus (now Lynn, Mass) in 1635 married his first wife Bennett Hodsoll in
Cowfold in 1617. Cowfold is about 8 miles east of Billingshurst.
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