A report on West Sussex and Crawley

Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 mi south of London, 10 mi north of Brighton and Hove, and 29 mi northeast of the county town, Chichester.

It had an area of 3.7 sqmi and a population of 30,635 at the 2011 Census, making it the fourth most populous parish in the county (behind Crawley, Worthing and Horsham) and the most populous in the Mid Sussex District.

Gatwick Airport, also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, 29.5 mi south of Central London.

Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England.

Nearby towns include Crawley to the north-east and Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill to the south-east.

It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

Virgin Atlantic is off the A23, with Paslode UK (nail guns) next-door, on the Manor Royal Ind Estate in the north of Crawley, as is Edwards (former BOC Edwards), an international engineering company that makes vacuum pumps, with another plant on the A259 in Kingston by Sea, Shoreham.

It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and divided for many purposes into the ceremonial counties of West Sussex and East Sussex.

Crawley, Worthing and Eastbourne are major towns, each with a population over 100,000.

Mid Sussex is a local government district in the English non-metropolitan county of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

The district was created on 1 April 1974 from parts of East Sussex: the urban districts of Cuckfield, Burgess Hill, and East Grinstead and nearly all of Cuckfield Rural, the far north-west of which was transferred to Crawley.

Haywards Heath is a town in West Sussex, England, 36 mi south of London, 14 mi north of Brighton, 13 mi south of Gatwick Airport and 31 mi northeast of the county town, Chichester.

Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawley northwest and East Grinstead northeast.

Aside from London and Brighton themselves, the line serves multiple large urban areas along its route, including Redhill, eastern Crawley, Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill.

On 16 December 1972, two electric multiple unit passenger trains collided at Copyhold Junction, West Sussex after the one of the drivers misread signals. Fifteen people were injured.

East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, 27 mi south of London, 21 mi northeast of Brighton, and 38 mi northeast of the county town of Chichester.

Nearby towns include Crawley and Horley to the west, Tunbridge Wells to the east and Redhill and Reigate to the northwest.

Worthing is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, 10 mi west of Brighton, and 18 mi east of Chichester.

Worthing-based Compass Travel have routes to Angmering, Chichester, Henfield and Lancing; and other companies serve Horsham, Crawley, Brighton and intermediate destinations.