Wisborough Green is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England 2 miles (3.2 km) miles west of Billingshurst on the A272.
Newbridge where the A272 crosses the River Arun 1 mile (1.6 km) mile east of the village was the highest point of the Arun navigation, and the southern end of the Wey and Arun Canal. Newbridge Wharfe on the southern side of the bridge was an important part of the local transport system in the nineteenth century.
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“the green hells of the sea
Where fallen skies and evil hues and eyeless creatures be;
On them the sea-valves cluster and the grey sea-forests curl,
Splashed with a splended sickness, the sickness of the pearl;”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)