Gander Hill, Haywards Heath

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 18 Jul 2015

The point where College Road becomes Gander Hill. The road was once part of the old medieval Cuckfield to Lindfield highway that skirted the northern end of the old Haywards Heath common. It left Broad Street, Cuckfield at Hatchgate Lane and followed the route of the bridleway through Paige's Wood then part of Blunt's Wood Crescent and Blunt's Wood Road. Part of the section which crossed the current grounds of Haywards Heath College was removed as public access in the 1950s with a bridleway reappearing heading east from Turners Mill Road between a housing estate and a business park before rejoining Balcombe Road prior to it crossing under the railway. Here the route becomes a highway again along College road then Gander Hill up to Smallsgreen Cross where it would have once crossed Lindfield's West Common and entered that town via Denman's Lane or Hickman's Lane. Much of Gander Hill was developed between the wars.

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