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Penn Crescent, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3HN

Running in a crescent shape north of Washington Road and developed sometime between 1947 and 1955 on the northern end of Bent's Wood. Most of the road names in this part of Haywards Heath, that was originally in the parish of Lindfield up to the 1930s, either have connections to America, the name given to the former smallholding settlement set up by William Allen, or quakers, which Allen was one, or indeed Allen himself. The exceptions are Barn Cottage Lane and Bentswood Crescent named after local places.

A continuation of Oathall Avenue until the junction with Barn Cottage Lane whereupon it changes to Hanbury Lane. The road and adjacent estates were developed in the late 1940s on the former Bent's Wood.

At the junction with Barn Cottage Lane, Hanbury Lane becomes Washington Road that was developed sometime between 1947 and 1955 on the northern part of Bent's Wood.

Along with Penn Crescent the road was developed after the Second World War on the site of Bent's Wood linking up Oathall Avenue and the junctions of Barn Cottage Lane and Hanbury Lane.

Built as a council estate in the 1930s on the site of Bent's Wood from which the estate got its name. The road itself links Barn Cottage Lane to Bentswood Road.

The footpath runs from Hanbury Lane in Haywards Heath to Backwoods Lane, Lindfield and predates all the development around it. To the right is the new development on the former Wilmington Way estate whilst the trees on the left are sole surviving remnant of Bent's Wood which once covered a large area from Scrase Stream to America Lane in the south.

Built in the 1930s on the site of Bent's Wood and running from Bentswood Road to Barn Cottage Lane.

The name of the residential road that links Bentswood Road with Washington Road. This section, the northern part, was developed after the Second World War, unlike the eastern portion, see Image, that had been completed by the mid 1930s. The Bentswood estate is named after the wood it was built on.

A small cul de sac off Woodstock Place and part of a new development completed in 2013 on the site of a former council estate called Wilmington Way. The close has been built on an area that previously was a car park and open play space. Originally an open field called Furze Field on Lindfield's 1845 tithe map that was transferred to Haywards Heath during the 1930s. To the north is what is now the Scrase Valley Nature Reserve, to the south was the original course of America Lane, see Image, whilst to the west was Bent's Wood. During the Second World War the field was turned into allotments and after the conflict the southern end adjacent to the lane was developed with prefabs. This remained the case until the end of the 1960s when a new estate was built. Wilmington Way was another temporary measure designed to last twenty years but ending up being in place for nearly forty, the exception being a set of flats at the northern end that have remained. In 2008 a decision was taken to demolish the estate and rebuild again with the new estate roughly following the old road routes as well as a green strip that has been retained running north-south through the estate. For the former Wilmngton Way, taken in 2007, see: Image Image Image For the site after demolition, taken in 2011, see: Image Image Image For the current estate, taken in 2015, see: Image Image Image Image Image Image

The current estate was built in the last seven or eight years on the site of Pilgrim Court built in the early 1950s as sheltered housing for the elderly. Pilgrims Gardens is located off America Lane with a footpath that runs north to Bentswood Crescent.