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Cuckfield Road, HASSOCKS, BN6 9RZ

Formerly known as Fairfield and dating from the 19th century when it was the only building on the eastern side of Cuckfield Road between the village centre and Chalkers Lane, hence the fact it is at right angles with the road.

Being built to the rear of the two bungalows is a small cup de sac which if I think is going to be called Sycamore Close.

Originally built as a mission room in the first decade of the 20th century which explains why the church seems to have been built between two houses. It became a Roman Catholic church between the wars.

The name of the pair of cottages on the right that were erected in 1869 when the road was known as Whitehorse Lane and probably inhabited by those who worked for the neighbouring Hurstpierpoint gas works.

Small cup de sac off Image which was built in the early 1970s.

Small estate built in the late 1950s off Cuckfield Road and named after Image whose land the estate was built on. Both it and another road, St Lawrence Way were built on a field called Middle Piece according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map which later became a brick field by the 1875 OS map but had disappeared by the following 1899 one.

A small cup de sac off Image and the only one that allows access to Image which lies beyond the hedge at the end of the close.

Originally the site of a field called Marl Pit Field according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map. The field was purchased by one Adam Adams in the same year and landscaped into the Chinese Gardens, a pleasure ground built to cater for day trippers using the newly opened London-Brighton railway. The gardens opened in 1843 containing parkland, a cricket ground and a boating lake, along with a hotel at the southern end. It remained a popular attraction until the 1930s when it was reported that the wrong type of people were visiting and their drunken aggressive behaviour put others off and as a consequence visiting figures began to fall. The gardens limped on until the 1950s when they were finally closed. During the 1960s the lake was drained and the former grounds developed into Hurst Gardens and Chestnut Grove. The hotel survived as a pub and was renamed the Pierpoint, see Image

Part of a residential estate built in the early 1970s on a former field called Home Mead, according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map. There are three small cup de sacs off this road, Image, Image and Image

A small cup de sac off Image, the eastern most of the three.