IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Bentswood Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3PR

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to Bentswood Road, RH16 3PR by members of the Geograph project.

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Image Listing (63 Images Found)

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Mini Roundabout, New England Road
This side of the roundabout is America Lane, heading straight ahead is New England, whilst Bentswood Road goes off to the right. The junction marks the former parish boundary between Cuckfield and Lindfield with New England Road developed from the latter years of the Victorian era and reaching this point by 1910. Bentswood Road was developed as a large council estate during the 1930s whilst America Lane was home to an early 19th century Quaker self help settlement known initially as The Colony and later as America which survived until 1944 when all the cottages were demolished.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Apr 2011
0.04 miles
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Church of the Presentation, Marylands, Haywards Heath
The second and smaller of the two parish churches of St Wilfrid's. An iron building was originally erected here in 1882 and replaced by the current one in 1897. The building on the left is a small church hall whilst the cul-de-sac built in the 1980s was built in the grounds of the vicarage.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.07 miles
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Bentswood Road
Erected in the 1930s as a working class estate the name deriving from the Bent family who owned land in the area during the 19th century. Bentswood Road runs from the left then up the hill, the road leading out to the right is Little Bentswood.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Aug 2007
0.07 miles
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Bentswood Crescent, Haywards Heath
Built in the 1930s on the site of Bent's Wood and running from Bentswood Road to Barn Cottage Lane.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.08 miles
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Bentswood Road, Haywards Heath
The road runs in a circular fashion from New England Road and back again further east to the point where it changes to America Lane. This section looks down towards the junction with Little Bentswood and Bentswood Crescent. The Bentswood estate was begun by the local council in the mid 1920s and largely completed by the mid 1930s with a couple editions after the war. Named after the wood it was built on.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 7 Apr 2015
0.08 miles
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Langridge Lane
Small private lane off New England Road the houses being developed during the interwar period.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Aug 2007
0.08 miles
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Allen Road, Haywards Heath
A residential road in the shape of an 'L' with this part leading to America Lane completed by 1947. See also Image
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.08 miles
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New England Road, Haywards Heath
Looking eastwards along the road that was laid out around the 1880s along with many of the houses visible on the left. The road becomes America Lane at the eastern junction with Bentswood Road a point which once marked the parish boundary between Cuckfield and Lindfield. The white van is pulling out of Western Road.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 7 Apr 2015
0.08 miles
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Little Bentswood, Haywards Heath
This is the name of the road straight ahead. Bentswood Road sweeps round from near right to left.
Image: © Robin Webster Taken: 14 Mar 2010
0.09 miles
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America Lane, Haywards Heath
Viewed from the mini roundabout which contains the junctions of Bentswood Road on the left and Western Road heading off behind the photographer to the right. For many centuries this roughly marked the parish boundary of Cuckfield and Lindfield with the later only absorbed by the growing Haywards Heath in the 1930s. The lane is named after a small settlement which was created in the 1820s by William Allen, a quaker industrialist and social reformer. The idea was to provide a small cottage with a large plot to chose agricultural labourers who wished to work and stay off the poor rates. The cottages lined the southern side of the road facing Bent's Wood, which then stretched north to Scrase Stream, with the plot, a thin strip attached to each cottage, stretching southwards to the parish boundary adjacent to Petland Wood. Allen's idea was to produce 'Colonies at home' in order to discourage emigration and encourage self sufficiency amongst the rural poor. Initially known as The Colony it was soon locally nicknamed America which stuck. The settlement did well and remained in place up to the Second World War. In the 1930s this part of Lindfield parish had been transferred to Haywards Heath and with it the urbanisation that initially had stopped at this road junction, see http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw039524?name=HAYWARDS%20HEATH&gazetteer=HAYWARDS%20HEATH&POPULATED_PLACE=HAYWARDS%20HEATH&COUNTY=West%20Sussex&ADMIN_AREA=Mid%20Sussex&ref=4 for an aerial view of 1932 with the cottages and their plots still in place. A decision was taken during the 1940s to demolish all the cottages which was carried out in 1944 and replace it with a new housing estate which was largely completed by 1950, see http://www.sussex.ac.uk/geography/researchprojects/sussexairphotos/1940/6-3055.jpg for an aerial view from 1947 with the cottages gone, the estate under construction along with the marked out new course of the lane, and the northern part of Image complete. The lane itself originally ran eastwards then turned north up what is now Image then east again along what is now Image The new road which avoided these turns was built in the late 1940s and the eastern end reduced to a bridleway on the construction of Westlands Road in the early 1970s. In the distance are Image and Image
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.09 miles
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