Horsham

Horsham is a traditional English market town in . The first mention of Horsham was in King Eadred's land charter of AD 947. The town had connections to the sale of horses and recent ideas suggest the name might be derived from "Horse Ham", meaning "a settlement where horses are kept".
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  • Type: Town with 51,500 residents
  • Description: town in West Sussex, England
  • Also known as: “West Horsham”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Horsham railway station and Horsham Museum.

Railway station
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serves the town of Horsham in , England. It is 37 miles 56 chains down the line from , measured via , on the Arun Valley Line and the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines, and train services are provided by Southern and Thameslink.

Museum
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is a in Horsham, , England. It was founded in August 1893 by volunteers of the and became part of Horsham District Council in 1974.

College
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The , formerly called Collyer's School, is a co-educational sixth form college in Horsham, , . The college was rated as being 'excellent’ by Ofsted in 2025.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broadbridge Heath and Warnham.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the Horsham district of , England. It is about two miles west from the historic centre of Horsham.

Village
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is a and civil parish in the Horsham district of , England. The village is centred 2 miles north-northwest of Horsham, 31 miles from London, to the west of the A24 road. The parish is in the north-west of the Weald.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of and the Horsham District of , England. The village is on the A281 road, 2 miles south-east from the town of Horsham. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Horsham.

Horsham

Latitude
51.063° or 51° 3′ 47″ north
Longitude
-0.3295° or 0° 19′ 46″ west
Population
51,500
Elevation
171 feet (52 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB HOH
Open location code
9C3X3M7C+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17722528
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2646557
Wiki­data ID
Q177544
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Horsham” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Horsham”
  • Armenian: “Հորշամ”
  • Asturian: “Horsham”
  • Azerbaijani: “Horşam”
  • Basque: “Horsham”
  • Belarusian: “Хоршам”
  • Bengali: “হরশ্যাম”
  • Breton: “Horsham”
  • Bulgarian: “Хоршъм”
  • Catalan: “Horsham”
  • Cebuano: “Horsham”
  • Chinese: “賀森”
  • Chinese: “贺森”
  • Chinese: “霍舍姆”
  • Corsican: “Horsham”
  • Croatian: “Horsham”
  • Czech: “Horsham”
  • Danish: “Horsham”
  • Dutch: “Horsham”
  • Estonian: “Horsham”
  • Finnish: “Horsham”
  • French: “Horsham”
  • Galician: “Horsham”
  • Georgian: “ჰორშამი”
  • German: “Horsham”
  • Greek: “Χόρσαμ”
  • Gujarati: “હોરશામ”
  • Hebrew: “הורשם”
  • Hindi: “होर्शैम”
  • Hungarian: “Horsham”
  • Indonesian: “Horsham”
  • Irish: “Horsham, Sussex Thiar”
  • Italian: “Horsham”
  • Japanese: “ホーシャム”
  • Kannada: “ಹಾರ್ಸ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “호셤”
  • Ladin: “Horsham”
  • Latvian: “Horšema”
  • Latvian: “Horsham”
  • Lithuanian: “Horšamas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Horsham”
  • Malagasy: “Horsham”
  • Narom: “Horsham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Horsham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Horsham”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Horsham”
  • Persian: “هورشام”
  • Persian: “هورشم”
  • Polish: “Horsham”
  • Portuguese: “Horsham”
  • Romanian: “Horsham”
  • Romansh: “Horsham”
  • Russian: “Хоршам”
  • Russian: “Хоршэм”
  • Serbian: “Хоршам”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Horsham”
  • Slovak: “Horsham”
  • Slovenian: “Horsham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هورشم”
  • Spanish: “Horsham”
  • Swedish: “Horsham”
  • Tahitian: “Horsham”
  • Tamil: “ஹொர்ஷம்”
  • Telugu: “హోర్షమ్”
  • Turkish: “Horsham”
  • Ukrainian: “Горшем”
  • Urdu: “ہورشام”
  • Uzbek: “Horsham”
  • Volapük: “Horsham”
  • Welsh: “Horsham”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہورشام”

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