Site of Former Law Courts, Bolnore Road, Haywards Heath
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Site of Former Law Courts, Bolnore Road, Haywards Heath
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Mar 2015
Haywards Heath first acquired its own court in 1888 when the bench moved from Cuckfield and occupied a building near the station in Paddockhall Road where it stayed until the 1980s when it moved to this site, once occupied by a house called Elfinsward built in the 1860s which became a Diocesan Conference Centre from 1928 and until its sale to Sussex Police in 1973 who subsequently demolished it but then had to wait a number of years of legal wrangling to finally be able to build a new police station. The magistrates court sat until 2012 when it was closed as part of the government's cost cutting measures with the building being demolished and set to be replaced by sheltered housing.
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Image Location
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50.998968
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