Twineham

In 1911, the village started to get its piped water supply from the Burgess Hill Water Company. In 1928, the roads were surfaced, and electricity came to the village in 1936. The village of Twineham has never had its own pub, although there are two pubs in the parish of Twineham.

Twineham Grange

Twineham civil parish contains 21 listed buildings. Of these, one is Grade I, two are Grade II* and the remaining 18 buildings are Grade II.

Farms like Twineham Place have big spreads of modern industrial-scale shedding, whilst the derelict battery egg production sheds of Whiteoaks Farm (TQ 260 180), on Reeds Lane, have now been replaced by a landscaped industrial estate. There is still a fair amount of cultivated ground and farmed land, relative to much of the Low Weald.[5]

Porch at St Peters Church

The Parish Church of St Peter (TQ 252 199) is a Grade I listed building.[9] and is made of local brick, the first of that material in mid Sussex, circa 1516.[10] It is likely to have replaced a wooden church. Inside, some of the aisle slabs are of fossil winklestone, from a Sussex marble band that outcrops roughly along, but just south of, Gratten Lane. The pulpit and squire's pew have the finest carving: the former Jacobean, the latter Elizabethan. Until recently there was is a Householder's Pew with the old farm names gilded upon it.

Slipe

Slipe is a Grade II* listed building and a former farmhouse, originally a 15th-century timber-framed open hall with a solar wing, modified in the 16th century and restored in the 1920s and late 1940s.[11]

Hickstead Place

Hickstead Place is a Grade II* listed building and a timber-framed house of different periods, altered from the 18th century onwards; the oldest portions are 15th century.[12]

Part of the All England Jumping Course at Hickstead is located within the parish; however, the International Arena itself, and public access to the course from the A23, are outside the parish, to the south, in the civil parish of Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common.[13]

Twineham's War Memorial is a Grade II* listed building . The National Heritage List for England describes it as 'an elegant and well-proportioned example of a Celtic cross memorial displaying good quality materials and fine craftsmanship'.[14]

Herrings Stream

River Adur tributary flowing under Hooker's Bridge

The eastern River Adur meets Herrings Stream at Twineham (TQ 239 193). The river then continues to the west of Henfield, where it meets the western Adur to reach the sea at Shoreham-by-Sea. The streams are rich in dragon and damselflies; from Hooker's Bridge, (TQ 255 203), along the little Adur west to its confluence with the Herrings Stream (TQ 240 196) and back east to Herrings Bridge (TQ 254 193) there are emperors, chasers, banded demioselles, and much more.[7]

At the confluence the Reed and Greater Pond Sedge beds are extensive, and noisy with the discordant grating of bands of reed bunting flocks and reed warblers in spring. The primroses are plentiful along Gratten Lane, e.g. (TQ 245 192), with long views in all directions. At Bob's Lane (TQ 246 205) a pairs of barn owls forage the fields, hedgelines and wood edges. There is ancient flowers such as early dog violet, sweet woodruff, orchids and bluebells.[7]

The hamlet of Hickstead, lie at the eastern end of the parish. At Hickstead, the Herrings Stream cuts between the Show Jumping Course and Hickstead Place. West of the Course, the Stream passes a wooded medieval moated site (TQ 262 195), and several old oaks. The Herrings Stream has relatively good bankside access from Hickstead east to the A273, Eylesford Bridge.[7]

Twineham Parish Council has five parish councillors.[15] The Parish Council holds six planned meetings a year; additional meetings may be called to discuss planning applications. Meetings are held at Twineham School.[16]

The Localism Act 2011 gives town or parish councils the ability to produce their own neighbourhood plan.[17] The Twineham Neighbourhood Plan was made on 24 March 2016. The plan informs development decisions, and helps influence the type, quality and location of that development.[13]

Twineham civil parish is in Bolney Ward of the non-metropolitan district of Mid Sussex;[18] the ward returns one councillor to Mid Sussex District Council.[19]

The responsibilities of district councils include local planning, housing, local highways, building, environmental health, and refuse collection.[20]

Twineham civil parish is in the Hurstpierpoint and Bolney electoral division of the non-metropolitan county of West Sussex.[18] The division returns one councillor to West Sussex County Council.[21]

The functions of county councils including education, transport, strategic planning, fire services, consumer protection, refuse disposal, social services and libraries.[20]

Twineham civil parish is now in the Mid Sussex constituency.[18] Prior to 2010 it was in the Arundel and South Downs constituency.