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Horsham: Christ's Hospital School
Christ's Hospital School, Horsham, West Sussex, England.
Horsham
England, United Kingdom
Horsham, town and district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England. The mostly rural district covers a large part of west-central Sussex.
The town serves an extensive area of the Sussex Weald as an agricultural market and shopping centre and has light engineering and a few other industries. Christ’s Hospital School (Bluecoat School) was moved there in 1902 from the City of London. Area district, 205 square miles (530 square km). Pop. (2001) town, 47,804; district, 122,088; (2011) town, 48,041; district, 131,301.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kenneth Pletcher.
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