Cowdray and Midhurst Heritage Trust

The Cowdray Ruins date from the first half of the sixteenth century, with habitation on nearby St. Anne’s Hill dating from soon after the Norman Conquest.

Lord Cultural Resources was engaged by the Midhurst Heritage Trust to prepare an Interpretative Plan and Business Plan for the development of a ruined Tudor mansion and local heritage trail for the town of Midhurst. The completed interpretative plan encompassed both the history of the Ruins and the development of the landscape and townscape that it has shaped and influenced since the eleventh century. The Business Plan considered the full implications of staffing, and ongoing costs, and developed an imaginative public programme of events and activities. Our work supported a second stage application to the Heritage Lottery Fund.