16/10/2025
I do enjoy a lunchtime walk. And I've passed by this very small village - Warminghurst, West Sussex - many times over the years, but I had absolutely no idea about its historic significance and importance. It's basically just a church, a wall, some fields, and a few houses.
Turns out that William Penn lived here for around 25 years. And it was here, with his fellow Quakers, that he wrote "The Frame of Government" in 1682 for his granted land in the New World - Pennsylvania (literally 'Penn’s woods'). Before departing on his voyage across the Atlantic to establish a colony there.
For perspective: without that remarkably forward-thinking document, there might never have been a U.S. Constitution… and so perhaps no United States at all. And it was written here. In this tiny little corner of England.
*mind blown.gif*
