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Western Road, HASSOCKS, BN6 9SU

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.

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.

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.

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.

A small estate built during the 1930s off Western Road and named after a local farm.

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

Originally a field called Ten Acres according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map. By the end of the 19th century the portion adjacent to what is now Western Road was built upon with the rest becoming Courtbushes Nursery which remained in operation until the 1970s. Initially the eastern end of Nursery Close was built before it was extended into what remained the rest of the field in the 1990s.

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

Originally the old road heading north from the village until it was replaced by a new turnpike in the early 19th century that is now Cuckfield Road. On the 1874 OS map the road is called Whitehorse lane after the inn at the southern end of the road, by 1897 it had become Chinese Lane after the Chinese Gardens, which had opened in 1843, and occupied the area to the east of the lane, roughly where the houses are on the left, see Image for more details. By 1910 it had settled on its current name. The road itself developed from either end and eventually met in the middle, containing Victorian cottages to the north, Edwardian cottages spreading southwards on the western side of the road and a lot of housing added during the interwar years. More modern housing was added after the Chinese Gardens closed in the 1950s, as well as those on the site of the old gas works and the Pierpoint, a public house built for the gardens that survived into the 1990s.

The name of the field according to Hurstpierpoint's 1842 tithe map that has lost its eastern end to the estate based around Kemps. To the south is Image and to the west is Image