end of the village, there is a small duck pond. There are a few shops close to the modern village hall. Binsted has a pub, the Black Horse and a Norman church built in 1140 AD by the monks of Tortington Priory to the immediate east. Roman and medieval pottery and tile kilns have been excavated there. Binsted also has a traditional summer festival, Strawberry Fair, where locally grown produce is sold for charity. Churches St Mary's Church in Walberton was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, which it considerably predates, as evidenced by its Saxon font and Roman-era west wall. In 1846, a small group of parishioners left St Mary's to form a Baptist church. Its present flint building dates from 1886. Since 1973, it has been affiliated to the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches. Both St Mary's and Walberton Baptist Church normally have services every Sunday and a range of mid-week activities. Notable people Sir William Anson (1843–1914), jurist, academic and politician, was born in Walberton. Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton (1883–1964), businessman and government minister, is buried in Walberton churchyard. Rosemary Sutcliff (1920–1992), children's writer, spent the latter part of her life in Walberton. The Hilton Avisford Park Hotel, with its golf course between Walberton and Binsted, was formerly Avisford Roman Catholic Preparatory School for Boys (1928–73), where BBC journalist Edward Stourton (born 1957) was head boy and Robert Nairac (1948–1977), an army officer abducted and murdered in Northern Ireland, spent a year teaching before university in the late 1960s. Lt Gen Thomas Reynell (1777-1848) is buried in the churchyard. References External links The village's 36 listed historic buildings are described here: Retrieved 12 September 2011. Walberton Parish Council web site. Villages in West Sussex Arun District