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Franklands Village, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH16 3RA

Except that the clock was wrong. It was really twenty five to four. An earlier picture with more information is at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4651980.

Built as the village post office and general stores in 1937 with the former ceasing services in 2007. The stores themselves, run by Spar, closed suddenly before Christmas 2011. However, they were reopened in September 2012 after a refurbishment by new operators Mulberrys.

Small shop and post office located on the corner of Graveleye Lane and Reed Pond Walk. Franklands 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 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. Franklands Wood was originally part of Wivelsfield parish but was transferred to Haywards Heath in 1934.

In Wivelsfield's 1843 tithe map this was a field called Great Field which belonged to nearby Franklands Farm until after the First World War when the latter was knocked down and the field sold off in plots one of which was used to build a house called Woodridge which survived into the 1980s before that too was demolished in order to build the current cul-de-sac which runs off Frankton Avenue. This part of Haywards Heath was part of the parish of Wivelsfield until transferred in 1934.

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

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.

The main recreational playing area in Franklands Village located to the rear of the village hall. It is also home to Franklands Village FC who were formed in 1956 and joined Sussex County Division Three in 1983 where they largely stayed until resigning from the league in 2004 having been forced to move away from the ground due to a change in FA ground rules. They have now returned and play in the Mid Sussex League. Franklands 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.

Once part of Northlands Wood which as its name suggests formed the northern tip of the parish of Wivelsfield. Of the three sets of woods that once existed between what is now the B2112 in the centre of Haywards Heath and Lyoth Common this was the last to go being grubbed through the 1980s to build the current estate. The area was transferred to Haywards Heath in 1934.

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.

The main recreational playing area in Franklands Village located to the rear of the village hall. It is also home to Franklands Village FC who were formed in 1956 and joined Sussex County Division Three in 1983 where they largely stayed until resigning from the league in 2004 having been forced to move away from the ground due to a change in FA ground rules. They have now returned and play in the Mid Sussex League.