William Penn stayed with Briant Wilkinson at Sedgewick Park, or Nuthurst Lodge, during his missionary ‘Journey on Truth’s Account Through Kent, Sussex and the Skirt of Surrey’ in 1672.

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (or 12th Baron) (1577-1618) was a politician and merchant who became governor of the colony of Virginia (c1609).
In 1649 Wiston House was purchased by Sir John Fagg, a prominent Parliamentarian soldier during the Civil War, MP for Steyning 1660-1701 and a non-conformist

William Penn visited Patchgate (just north of Cowfold), home of Thomas Parsons, where he also met Quaker Ambrose Rigg and journeyed with him .

In September 1682 before crossing the Atlantic to America, the ‘Welcome’, with William Penn already aboard, hove to off Worthing to collect at least 16 Sussex emigrants and further supplies. On his return, Penn landed on 3rd October 1684 “within 7 miles of my home at Warminghurst”, probably off Worthing or Shoreham.

Inhabitants of the parish of Lindfield contributed £60 to cover the cost for William Isted, his wife and six children to emigrate to America in 1820.

William Penn owned part of the manor of Kingston Bowsey (Bucci) near Shoreham through his marriage to Gulielma Maria Penington in 1672.

This was the location of the County’s very first Quaker meeting for worship in 1655 and where the earliest permanent meeting house was built in 1674/75.

Founder of the Quakers, George Fox was imprisoned here for non-conformity between April and July 1655.Matthew Caffyn (1628-1714) who was born and lived in Horsham

Founder of the Quakers, George Fox was imprisoned here for non-conformity between April and July 1655. William Penn first stayed in the town on 1st October 1672 during his missionary ‘Journey on Truth’s Account Through Kent, Sussex and the Skirt of Surrey’.

Goodwood House is the family seat of the Dukes of Richmond. Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735-1806) took a leading part in American affairs in the House of Lords during the War of Independence. He was known as the 'Radical Duke' due to his sympathy for the colonists.