Haywards Road, Haywards Heath
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Haywards Road, Haywards Heath
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 8 Feb 2015
Linking Ashenground Road to the south with South Road to the north. The modern road roughly follows the course of a much older one, marked on a 1638 estate map, which ran across the old heath to provide access for Little Haywards Farm, see Image Straightened by the enclosure of the heath in 1858 and initially known as little Haywards Road it was gradually developed through the rest of the 19th century.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.995763
Longitude
-0.103558