page_title: Midhurst
section_title: Rail
hierarchical_section_title: Midhurst / Transport / Rail
caption_attribution_description: Midhurst railway station
context_page_description: Midhurst is a market town, parish and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It lies on the River Rother 20 miles inland from the English Channel, and 12 miles north of the county town of Chichester.
  The name Midhurst was first recorded in 1186 as Middeherst, meaning "Middle wooded hill", or " among the wooded hills". It derives from the Old English words midd or mid, meaning "in the middle", plus hyrst, "a wooded hill".
  The Norman St. Ann's Castle dates from about 1120, although the foundations are all that can now be seen. The castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denis, together with South Pond, the former fish-pond for the castle, are the only three structures left from this early period. The parish church is the oldest building in Midhurst. Just across the River Rother, in the parish of Easebourne, is the ruin of the Tudor Cowdray House.
context_section_description: Midhurst was linked by three lines, one from Pulborough in 1866, one from Petersfield in 1864 and one from Chichester in 1881. The line from Chichester to Midhurst closed in 1935 to passengers and in 1951 to goods traffic.
  There were two stations, the London Brighton and South Coast Railway's (Chichester to Pulborough) and the London and South Western Railway's. All passenger services were concentrated on the LB&SCR station in 1925 by the Southern Railway. The last passenger trains ran in 1955.The line remained open, from Pulborough only, for goods traffic until 1964.
caption: A royal train at the (LBSCR) station pre 1907
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