Hanbury Lane, Haywards Heath
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Hanbury Lane, Haywards Heath
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
Once the original course of America Lane which left Gravelye Lane in the east ran down the hill across the unnamed stream then followed this direction until turning south down what is now Barn Cottage Lane then west again along America Lane to the small hamlet of America. The latter was set up in the 1820s by William Allen as a small settlement of self sufficient smallholders who were given a cottage and a plot of land. Allen was an industrialist who ran a pharmaceutical company that later became Allen & Hanbury which was swallowed up by Glaxo in 1958 and whose name only disappeared from products in 2013. To the right are new houses built on the old Wilmington Way estate, see Image, for a view during redevelopment.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.002936
Longitude
-0.085734