Once again our camera club members have been out exploring some of the lesser known parts of the county.

We are lucky to have countless lovely villages in Sussex and Shermanbury, near Henfield, is just one of them.

Philip Carter, who lives in Horsham, took some beautiful snaps of the village on a peaceful Saturday stroll. 

While most of the houses in the village lie on, or just off, the A281, the sights are mostly set back on public footpaths and bridleways.

The Argus: Ewhurst Manor gatehouseEwhurst Manor gatehouse (Image: Philip Carter/The Argus Camera Club)

The ancient parish church, the Anglican church of St Giles, is to the east by Shermanbury Place. It is approached by a tree-lined path.

Shermanbury Place is home to giant oaks and nightingales sing in the bushy thickets during summer. Barn owls hunt on the fields.

The Argus: Barn owls hunt on the rough pasturesBarn owls hunt on the rough pastures (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Its current structure is of 14th-century origin, though a small church is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086.

Just an early 14th-century gatehouse, with a porter's lodge attached, from the former moated Ewhurst Manor survives.

The eastern River Adur flows through Shermanbury, where it is met by the Cowfold Stream.