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Balcombe Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 1NT

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.

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 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 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.

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

Small cul de sac off Bridgers Mill built in the 1990s on the site of a former field called Barn Meadow which was once overlooked by Image

This section links Turners Mill Road and Burrell Road. The bridleway is the remnant of a former medieval highway that linked Cuckfield to Lindfield. It left Cuckfield via Hatchgate Lane through Blunts Wood a section that also still survives. Once it reaches Haywards Heath it follows Blunts Wood Road to the junction with Penland Road where it originally crossed the grounds of what is now Haywards Heath College that was originally Harlands Secondary School. This was removed in the 1960s along with another section that has been built over by Turners Mill Road before rejoining this surviving section which originally led to a junction with the road to Mill Green which was also rerouted in the early 1840s when the railway was built. The route to Lindfield follows the course of College Road and Gander Hill where it led out onto Lindfield's West Common then continued on the eastern as Denmans Lane to the High Street. The route was still in existence in 1638 as it is marked on an estate map and called The Whappell Way, whapple being another term for a route used by horses. However, by the 1813 OS map the track ended at Harlands Farm which still lies beyond the fence to the left though is now part of a cul de sac called Bridgers Mill. Beyond the fence to the right is the private Nuffield Hospital.