Rudgwick

Historically Ridgewick was an alternative form of the toponym.[4] Riccherwyk may be another, seen in 1377.[5]

The Church of England parish church of the Holy Trinity has a 12th-century Norman font of Sussex Marble.[6] The belltower is early 13th century.[7] The church was largely rebuilt in the 14th century, when the north aisle was added and probably the present chancel was built.[7]

The parish has two 17th century farmhouses. Garlands, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the village, is early 17th century and Redhouse Farm 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village is late 17th century.[6] Naldrett House, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the village, is an 18th-century Georgian farmhouse of three bays and two storeys, built of brick with stone quoins.[6]

Rudgwick had a Dissenters' chapel by 1848.[4]

Rudgwick railway station on the Cranleigh Line was opened in 1865 and closed in 1965, as part of the Beeching cuts.

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  Rudgwick School football team, 1948
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  Rudgwick double railway bridge
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  Canfields Farm
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  Rudgwick Chapel

Pennthorpe School is on in Church Street. Rudgwick Primary School is located in the community.[8]

The Rikkyo School in England, a Japanese boarding school, is also located in Rudgwick.[9]

• Bertram Prance (1889-1958), artist and illustrator, lived in the village.[10]
• Eric Thompson (1929–1982), creator of The Magic Roundabout grew up in Rudgwick.

• Lewis, Samuel, ed. (1931) [1848]. A Topographical Dictionary of England (Seventh ed.). London: Samuel Lewis. pp. 707–711.
• Nairn, Ian; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1965). Sussex. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 314–315. ISBN 0-14-071028-0.