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Valebridge Drive, BURGESS HILL, RH15 0RL

Taken at the junction with Image Once part of Valebridge Common until that was enclosed in 1828 with this section going to Theobalds Farm who grew a small wood called The Plantation. The wood lasted until the estate was sold off in 1920 with this area broken up into small plots for housebuilding which duly grew lining the eastern side of Valebridge Road. The small estate was constructed in the 1960s and initially turns east to south as it hits the district boundary between Mid Sussex and Lewes which is also the administrative boundary between both Sussexes.

Predating the housing estates that have sprung up around it and since 1974 has been the boundary between East Sussex to the left and West Sussex to the right. However, the trees on the left are a remnant of an old field boundary that has remained intact particularly as the estate beyond it was still a field into the 1990s.

Taken from the junction with Image, it was once part of Valebridge Common that was enclosed in 1828 when this area became a wood known as The Plantation owned by Theobalds Farm until that was broken up and sold in 1920, this area in small plots chiefly designed for house building. The small estate was built during the 1960s and this road remained a cul-de-sac until the 1990s when the Charlwood Road estate was built off of it.

The road has its origins as an old droveway that ran from Keymer village north to the great common on Haywards Heath. At this point it ran through Valebridge Common part of which survives as Bedelands Nature Reserve. The common was enclosed in 1828 and the road was straightened though development had to wait until the sale of Theobalds estate in 1920 for the houses either side to be built.

Small private housing estate off Janes Lane opposite World's End Recreation Ground.

Small cul-de-sac off Janes Lane.

Small 1990s housing estate which despite being part of Burgess Hill is actually in Lewes District Council and East Sussex. The footpath from which the picture was taken forms the boundary of East and West Sussex.

Small cul-de-sac off Janes Lane in the north eastern part of Burgess Hill.

The bridge carries the main London Line between Burgess Hill and Wivelsfield Station

Looking down towards the eastern edge of Burgess Hill. The footpath also forms the administrative boundary between West (to the left) and East (to the right) Sussex.