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The Platt, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 2SY

A small cul de sac off Image built in the early 1970s.

The original lane that linked Graveleye Lane with the early 19th century allotment colony later known as America. This section from the former down to The Hollow is now a bridleway. To the right are the outbuildings of Graveleye House built in 1826 for William Allen, the founder of America which was designed to enable the poor to become self sufficient through their allotments.

A small cul de sac off Image built in the early 1970s.

I think the house dates from the early 19th century though I'm not certain. Originally sited at the northern tip of Franklands Wood as a country residence the house was swallowed up by the expansion of Haywards Heath during the 1970s with the extensive grounds turned into a small cul-de-sac called Knoll Place sometime during the 1990s.

The lane originally ran west from Gravelye Lane then along what is now Hanbury Lane turned south down what is now Barn Cottage Lane then west again to provide access to a smallholder's settlement originally known as The Colony, nicknamed America by locals which eventually stuck. The cottages were pulled down in 1944 being part of land transferred from Lindfield to Haywards Heath in 1934 and replaced with a new housing estate and a rerouting of the road. This section was downgraded to the status of a bridleway in the late 1960s with the construction of Westlands Road to the north. The creator of 'America', William Allen, lived in Gravelye House, out of shot to the right, built for him in 1825-26. On the left is what was originally Gravelye Cottage built at the same time as the neighbouring house and now subdivided into two dwellings; Gravelye Cottage to the west and Overmist, originally known as Gravelye Cottage East, to the east.

An estate developed in the early 1970s that covers the former fields marked on Lindfield's 1845 tithe map as Two Acres, House Field and Hollow Field. Only accessible by vehicle from Westlands Road in the north.

A cul de sac off Gravelye Lane built in the grounds of Gravelye House, whose drive is on the left, in the 1990s. White Gables is the house at the far end.

An old lane that originally ran south from Lewes Road then through Franklands Wood to the former Franklands Farm at Birch Green. Much of the latter now lies beneath suburban Haywards Heath whilst the road now becomes Northlands Avenue over the parish boundary its former route through the 1930s Franklands Village now closed to traffic from the north. The two road junctions on the right are Lyoth Lane, an old country lane that runs east to Lyoth Common, and Langmore Lane, a new development recently completed.

The bridleway travels a short distance to The Hollows.

A cul de sac off Gravelye Lane that was built in 2001 in the former grounds of Wood Knoll House, a large Victorian house built between 1845 and 1875, which still exists as a single residence on the right.