| Official Name: | Linch |
| Country: | England |
| Civil Parish: | Linch |
| Region: | South East England |
| Static Image: | St Luke's Church, Woodmansgreen, Linch (Geograph Image 2450113 16284f22).jpg |
| Static Image Width: | 250px |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.44 |
| Population: | 78 |
| Population Ref: | 2001 Census |
| Population Density: | 23/km2 |
| Os Grid Reference: | SU861275 |
| Coordinates: | 51.0407°N -0.772°W |
| Post Town: | LIPHOOK |
| Postcode Area: | GU |
| Postcode District: | GU30 |
| Dial Code: | 01428 |
| Constituency Westminster: | Chichester |
| London Distance: | NE |
| Shire District: | Chichester |
| Shire County: | West Sussex |
Linch is an Anglican parish,[2] and a loose collection of hamlets that make up the civil parish of the same name in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England, northwest of Midhurst. It has an eighteenth-century church dedicated to St Luke.
Linch (Lince) was listed in the Domesday Book (1086) in the ancient hundred of Easebourne as having 14 households: seven villagers, five smallholders and two slaves; with woodland, meadows, ploughing land and a church, it had a value to the lord of the manor, Robert, son of Theobald, of £5.[3]
In 1861, the parish area was, described as "chiefly waste or woodland", and a population of 111.
In the 2001 census there were 29 households in the civil parish with a total population of 78 of whom 40 were economically active.
According to Kelly's Directory of 1867, the parish church of St Luke was built around 1700. It contains an unusual stained glass window of much earlier date; the stone church is otherwise plain.
The Hollycombe Steam Collection is in the parish.[4]