It is set on exceptionally high ground in one of the most beautiful parts of the county and is reached by a steep hill from Selborne and Hawkley, There are only a few scattered farms and houses here, a charming little church and a vicarage. The Selborne road enters the village between two farms and brances just below Grange Farm which may have been where the original manor house was. Take the branch west and here can be found the vicargae while the east branch leads to Holy Rood Church with the Grange at the back owned by a Mr A.E.Scott.

The Nationalk School was enlarged in 1872 and nearby are also a few cottages. The River Rother rises in the south and flows along the south of the village.

Empshott Manor was held by Edward the Cofessor by Bundi and Saxi and whent he Domesay Survey was record it was owne by Geoffrey de Venus the kings marshal. I then descended to Robert de Venuz his son and heir, and then to Robert's son William. The manor then went down through the family through the 13th century but by the time Edward II had come to the throne it had come into the ownership of Aymer de Valance who was the earl of Pembroke, Like Newton Valence, and Oakhanger the manor passed on to Thomas Wewt in 1339 (in 1532 Empshott was said to be in the hands of Thomas West, Lord de Warr as was his manor of Newton Valance) then since that time all records of the manor ceased to exist.

Grange Farm have always been the venue for the Courts of the Manor as this was originally the manor house and in a special provision of the conveyance made in 1792 by John Butler and his heirs being lofds of the manor whould hold courts for the said manor 'in that part of the manor house where courts have usually been held.'

The church of the Holy Rood has a wooden bell turret and in 1860 the east wall of the chancelk and its windows were repaired, and eight years later the rest of the chancel was also repaired, a new roof and south vestry added and the bell turret and walls of the nave were repaired in 1884.

There is also a chapel in Empshott which was granted in free alms by Ralph son of Gilbert and Constance his wife to the priory of Southwick and this was confirmed to them by Papal Bull between 1159 and 1181

The Church of the Holy Rood, showing its unusual "lantern" tower
The Font		A niche inside the church
The pulpit		The inside of the lantern tower

 In the 1500s a violent incident shook the villages, Robert Asked was the Lord of the Manor at this time and he was dragged of to York in chains to be hanged until life ceased to exist in his body, in fact this took six days. In the churchyard can be found the grave of Thomas Russell Homer (1914 - 1970), which says he was an idealist, sportsman and farmer and adds 'He sowed that others might reap'