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Balcombe Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 1PQ

Another view with more information is at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4411785.

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.

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

A mill had long existed at the point where the road to Balcombe crossed Scrase Stream with one marked on a 1638 estate map. This house dates from the mid to late 15th century and was extended on the road side in the 18th century. To the immediate north is Image whilst the former mill lay to the south and was finally demolished in 1968 though it had ceased working ing before that and its former mill ponds built over and now covered by Image

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.

See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4412890.

A private road running between College Road and Wickham Lane that was laid out in the 1930s though developed piecemeal and not completed until the 1950s. The lower end of the road occupied a former field called Little Mill Field according to Lindfield's 1845 tithe map.

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.