IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
America Lane, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3QB

Introduction

This page details the photographs taken nearby to America Lane, RH16 3QB by members of the Geograph project.

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Image Listing (76 Images Found)

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Shops, America Lane, Haywards Heath
Built in the late 1940s to serve the new estate that was built along America Lane. Currently containing Washington Fish & Chips, the Mad Hacker gents barbers, Strands & Co beauty saloon, McColls local store, a small Boots pharmacy and Saltwerkz cafe. To the immediate east is Image
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.02 miles
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Morrisons, America Lane, Haywards Heath
Opened in 2014 on the site of a former pub that began its life as the Pilgrim in 1951 later became the Golden Eagle, see Image, and spent its last years as the Mayflower before closing in 2012. Beyond is Image
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.03 miles
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The Golden Eagle, America Lane
Erected in 1951 as the Pilgrim Hotel with a quaker as the pub sign, the name being changed sometime in the last 15 years. Beyond are a parade of shops also constructed in the 1950s as a focal point for the new community.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Aug 2007
0.04 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
0.04 miles
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Quakers Lane, Haywards Heath
A small cul de sac off America Lane which has Hanbury Stadium, the home of Haywards Heath Town football club to the south though no access can be made via this road. The close was developed in the late 1950s.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.05 miles
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Boston Road, Haywards Heath
The residential road is shaped like a square and terminates either side of Image The houses were built in the late 1950s having previously been part of the plots given over to the cottages constructed by William Allen in the 1820s as part of the America settlement.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.05 miles
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Pilgrim Gardens, Haywards Heath
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.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.06 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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Hanbury Park Stadium
Home to Haywards Heath Town formed back in 1888. The ground was opened by Sir Stanley Rous back in 1952 in the days when the team was a local Sussex football power something reflected in the design of the main stand. The team are currently in Sussex Division Three.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 30 Aug 2007
0.11 miles
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Barn Cottage Lane, Haywards Heath
A residential road that has Image to the east and runs between America Lane and Hanbury Lane. In fact the road is the former route of America Lane which was redirected to the south when the estate here was built in the late 1940s. Originally, to the left was Bent's Wood whilst a couple of properties lined the right, Woodsde Cottage and Barn Cottage, the latter located on the corner of Image Both survived until around 1950 when the former was demolished for the recreation ground and the later removed for housing.
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 15 Aug 2015
0.11 miles
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