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Coordinates: 50°56'38?N 0°25'20?W? / ?50.94394, -0.42214
Thakeham is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England located 3.5 kilometres (2 miles) to the north east of Storrington.
The name Thakeham means "thatched homestead" and the village has one main street ("The Street") which is home to the village's only pub and church.
The parish has a land area of 1170.6 hectares (2891 acres). In the 2001 census 1794 people lived in 684 households, of whom 948 were economically active.
Just south of the village is the hamlet of Abingworth where there is a large mushroom farm together with several houses and Thakeham village hall.
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Thakeham from the churchyard
Anna Massey (who played Miss Prism alongside Colin Firth and Rupert Everett in the 2002 film version of The Importance of Being Earnest) was born in the village in 1937.
In 1940 or 1941, Jomo Kenyatta took a job as a nursery worker at AG Linfield's Chesswood nurseries and lived in nearby Storrington
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