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Midhurst: Come for the Chukkas. Stay for the Gizzard-rolling

Is Midhurst a nice place to live or is Midhurst rough?

Polo is this town’s main entertainment. Too bad it occurs only a few months a year. You get to see Gauchos being brayed at by chinless wonders smashed on Veuve Clicquot (they sponsored the local mallet-&-Horse extravaganza for a few years). I heard Katie Price attended once. She could’ve bustled in to the local tapas […]

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Midhurst, home of the tripods

Is Midhurst a nice place to live or is Midhurst rough?

H.G. Wells studied and taught at the school, Midhurst Grammar (as it was then). The school has since been turned into an academy, and resembles the starship Enterprise, if it had crashed into a brick factory, and Grange Hill. It was the events of 1880 that inspired Wells to speculate and ********* about tripod fighting […]

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