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Eastern Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3NL

Built in the mid 1960s to replace the old drill hall that was located at the cattle market. Beyond is Image

Built sometime in the 1960s for the Open Brethren and located to the immediate north of Image

Laid out before the First World War with the southern part up the hill in the distance developed during the 1920s. This part developed at a much slower pace having originally been the location of brickfields with a primary school added in the 1940s, the Eastern Road Gospel Hall on the right and neighbouring scout headquarters in the 1960s, whilst the houses on the left was still waste until the end of the 1970s when Albert Close was constructed.

In Eastern Road, Haywards Heath.

Running between Eastern Road and Reed Pond Walk the path drops down to cross a small unnamed tributary of Scrase Stream before climbing again. The stream was until 1934 the old parish boundary between Cuckfield on this side and Wivelsfield the other. The small wooded area here is the last remaining remnant of a huge swathe of woodland that was located between two former commons, Haywards Heath and Lyoth Common. Petland Wood, this side of the stream, was swallowed up the interwar expansion of Haywards Heath, Franklands Wood on the other side of the stream went in the 1930s when Franklands Village was developed and Northlands Wood disappeared in the 1970s and 80s to more housing development.

A continuation of Eastern Road as it turns west towards a junction with Western Road. The road was laid out on the site of Petlands Wood before the First World War though it was rerouted after and the houses on the left built in the 1920s. Those on the right, including a number of bungalows out of shot were not added until the 1960s.

A residential road that runs east from Eastern Road before coming to a dead end. Originally part of Petlands Wood that was largely grubbed before the First World War but wasn't developed until after with the exception of the houses on the right which were built around 1910 and for a while were served by a track. Those to the left were built in the 1960s on the site of a former kitchen that served the pupils of nearby St Wilfrid's School.

A residential road that runs between Western Road and Eastern Road with the southern side to the left developed in the 1920s on the site of Petlands Wood and the northern side not completed until the 1960s.

The footpath to the left links Franklands Village to Eastern Road. ranklands Village is a model village built in the 1930s in order to create housing for a fair economic rent. Built on the site of Franklands Wood, which was originally part of the parish of Wivelsfield until transferred to Haywards Heath in 1934, the community consists of two roads, Graveleye Lane, on the right, which runs south to north, and Reed Pond Walk, on the left, which loops around in semi circle rejoining Graveleye Lane further up. Facilities include a purpose built shop, a large village hall, a playing field and a church. The Franklands Village Housing Association still let a considerable number of houses today all of which have their own gardens.

A similar view is at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2388706.