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Balcombe Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 1NR

The house on the right was built in the 1970s on a former outbuilding of Bridger's Mill which was in operation from the early 19th century until well into the 20th. It was demolished in the mid 1960s. The cars park next to the railway embankment are located on the old course of Balcombe Road with the section beyond once the eastern tip of the former mill pond. The road itself is a busy C route linking Haywards Heath to Balcombe and predates the town.

Built as an agricultural labourers cottage for Image in the late 19th century at a time when the only buildings in this area were the former barn and Bridgers Mill which stood roughly on the spot of the junction between Burrell Road and Balcombe Road. The building on the right is the rear of Image The section of the road in view was added after the demolition of the mill in the mid 1960s allowing two way access to a light industrial estate.

Built to take the road to Balcombe from what was then the barren Haywards Heath common under the newly completed railway. Mill Green Road is on the left whilst the road continues to the right as College Road.

Balcombe Road sweeps around the corner to pass under a railway bridge just out of shot to the right.

Located on the bend of Balcombe Road which now covers the eastern end of the former mill pond belonging to Bridgers Mill which lay out of shot to the left until its demolition in 1968. The road had previously ran tight to the railway embankment necessitating a ninety degree turn to travel under the bridge, see Image The building was constructed in the 1960s and were for many years used as offices by the county court but are now occupied by Mane, a wholesale and retail firm dealing in perfume.

The main London to Brighton line is behind the trees on the left.

Sheltered housing built around 1991 on the site of a former house. The road in the foreground is the old course of Balcombe Road which was moved westwards once the former mill ponds of Bridgers Mill were drained in the late 1950s in order to avoid a sharp ninety degree turn under the railway bridge. The remains of the road provide a parking place for 6 or 7 cars of commuters using Haywards Heath station which is a five minute walk to the south across the footpath that lies adjacent to Sainsbury's car park.

The road predates the town and linked the common to a mill that lay beyond a bridge of Scrase Stream. The arrival of the railway in 1841 diverted the road and removed the old bridge which was located somewhere beneath the current embankment to the left. The houses on the right were built in the 1890s.