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Newton Close, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 2NE

The original Dukes Barn Court was built in 1975 as retirement flats but were demolished in the last year and replaced by another set of flats as well as seven individual houses, three of which can be seen on the right, with the other four behind the flats, see Image The original flats were named after a former barn that existed here from the 19th century until the 1950s when it was engulfed in residential expansion.

A residential road that runs from Eastern Road to Newton Road that was laid out in the first decade of the 20th century and mostly completed by the Second World War.

A cul de sac off Luxford Road with properties exclusively for the 55+ age range only. Built on the site of a former nursery.

New houses nearing completion on the footpath that links Chaloner's Road to Alma Road. Part of a development erected on the former Dukes Barn Court, itself built in 1975 as retirement flats, that includes seven houses and a smaller block of flats that retains the original name, see Image Prior to the retirement flats this was indeed the site of Dukes Barn which survived into the 1950s.

Originally located at Image moving to this building in 1939 where they have been ever since. Part of the County Towns Mission to begin with they changed to their current name in 1980. Chaloner's Road was developed between the wars and runs from Lewes Road to Newton Road.

Running in an arc from Newton Road to Brushes Lane and developed sometime between 1955-62 on the site of two former fields called Great Tainter Mead and Upper Tainter Mead according to Lindfield's 1845 tithe map. The word tainter appears to be a corruption of tenter and evidence that a cloth industry was once established here (there is also a Fulling Mill Farm to the north of the village near the river). Cloth from the fulling mill was fixed to frames in an open field called tenters to stretch, dry and straighten the weave. The road name derives from Dukes Barn which was situated on the southern side of the field and commemorated by a set of flats called Dukes Barn Court.

Looking westwards along the B2111 from the junction with Eastern Road. The common is on the left.

A view of the old school that was built in 1878 and closed in 2000 replaced by a more modern building at the western end of the common. The school originally catered for 5-14 year olds but was became a primary school after the 1944 Education Act. Now converted into flats with the rest of the former grounds now built on, see Image The road is Lewes Road, the B2111, it straight nature owing to its former route across the common.

Originally laid out towards the end of the 19th century the western side was developed before the First World War with the eastern added with council housing after the conflict. The road originally accessed a sewage works but now ends at Newton Road.

A residential road bookended by Barncroft Drive and part of the new Limes estate. In the distance is Image