Woodmancote is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. The village is 1 mile (1.5 km) southeast of Henfield on the A281 road. It should not be confused with the other West Sussex village of Woodmancote near Chichester. This scattered community has no village centre. The parish includes the hamlet of Blackstone. The Anglican parish church, St Peter's, which stands alone beside the A281 road, dates to the thirteenth century, and was largely rebuilt in 1868. Close to the church is Woodmancote Place, a large house used as a country club. There is also a parish hall. Woodmancote is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Odemancote". Two of the Lewes martyrs, burnt at the stake in the Marian Persecutions of 1556, Thomas Harland and John Oswald, came from Woodmancote. The parish has a land area of 849 hectares (2096 acres). In the 2001 census 478 people lived in 189 households, of whom 248 were economically active. At the 2011 Census the population was 543. Blackstone The hamlet of Blackstone () has many ancient houses and barns, in a still largely farmed landscape. To its north, Blackstone Lane widens to a linear green for much of its length to Blackstone Gate. There was a little triangular common at the Gate that was enclosed around 150 years ago.:172 Notable Buildings and Areas In early medieval times this was a lonely countryside of commons, marshes and woods. The Saxons commonly noted thorn bushes as boundary marks between estates and many of the boundary mark names survive here such as Eaton Thom () (a half-timbered 'gingerbread' house), which may be a corruption of'Heathen Thorn'), Wodesmansthorne (the old alternative name for Woodmancote) and Paythorne (Paga's thorn). It is now largely farmland with three notable woods and some big houses.:172 Woodmancote church Woodmancote church () is dedicated to St Peter. It was originally built in the thirteenth century. In about 1228 the church was given to the Knights Templar, and in 1312 it passed to the Knights of St John. It was largely rebuilt in 1869 and very little remains from the earlier periods of the church history. The bowl, drum and pillars of the font are Norman and the remainder dates back to the 14th century. It has some fossil winklestone in its south wall. Woodmancote Place Woodmancote Place () sits next to the church and its