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Lewes Road, HAYWARDS HEATH, RH17 7SF

The area was originally a small common at the junction of Lewes Road, the modern A272, and Hurstwood Lane. Encroachment reduced the area of the common until by the mid 19th century very little was left. Built as a house in the 1870s for an eminent Harley Street surgeon it was converted into a hotel between the wars. The road junction in the foreground is likely to change in the next few years once the Haywards Heath relief road is built, the A272 is due to be diverted south down Hurstwood Lane before crossing the country towards the B2112. This area is now part of Haywards Heath but was until 1934 part of Wivelsfield parish.

A small cul de sac off Northlands Avenue that was built in the 1970s as part of the Northlands estate that covers much of the former Northlands Wood. The wood was originally part of the parish of Wivelsfield until its transfer 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.