Harting

Village in West Sussex, England, 17 km/11 mi northwest of Chichester; population (2001) 1,990. There are three component villages: South, East, and West Harting. The largest of these, with an early 14th-century church, is South Harting.

To the south lies Uppark, a late-17th-century house high on the South Downs with a collection of furniture and paintings. H G Wells, who spent part of his childhood at Uppark, set part of his 1909 novel Tono Bungay here. The house was damaged by fire in 1989, but has been restored by the National Trust.