A report on Crawley

St John the Baptist's Church from the southeast
Crawley signal box in 2008
Queen's Square in the central shopping area, looking towards the bandstand, The Body Shop, Marks & Spencer and the former Woolworths store
One of the neighbourhood churches: St Mary's in Southgate (now a locally listed building)
Borough of Crawley shown within West Sussex
Crawley Town Hall, on The Boulevard in the town centre
Ordnance Survey map of the Crawley area, 1932
The Southgate neighbourhood's parade of shops
Each neighbourhood has colour-coded street name signs (Southgate example pictured).
Neighbourhoods of Crawley, identified in the table
Church Road in Lowfield Heath village, looking east towards St Michael and All Angels Church. No houses remain here; a hotel, depots and light industrial units have replaced the earlier development.
Graph of population growth in Crawley 1901–2001. Horizontal axis: year. Vertical axis: population.
Former Virgin Atlantic head office.
Schlumberger House, the head office of WesternGeco at Gatwick Airport
34 and 36 High Street - Grade II late 18th-century brick building with sash windows, two chimneys and a tiled roof.
The Friary Way entrance to County Mall
Crawley police station
Crawley library, opened in December 2008
Crawley station, with five storeys of offices above the ticket office and concourse area
A Metrobus double-decker bus at Crawley bus station
Gatwick is the world's second busiest single-runway international airport.
Entrance to the K2 Leisure Centre
Pond at Goff's Park Crawley, January 2009
The Memorial Gardens
The Grade II listed Worth Training Centre, Turners Hill Road, Pound Hill, Crawley
1902 Autocar in the 2018 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, High Street, Crawley.
The main building of Central Sussex College
Broadfield House, which now houses the Atelier 21 Future School
Erin Doherty
Ms. Dynamite
Romesh Ranganathan
Gareth Southgate
Daley Thompson
Alan Minter
Leadley
Laura Moffatt
Robert Smith

Large town and borough in West Sussex, England.

- Crawley

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Princess Royal Hospital & Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre

Haywards Heath

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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.

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.

Princess Royal Hospital & Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre
South Road in Haywards Heath
Former Priory
Haywards Heath with surrounding villages and large housing developments in 2018
Haywards Heath railway station
The library in Haywards Heath

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

A23 road

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Major road in the United Kingdom between London and Brighton, East Sussex, England.

Major road in the United Kingdom between London and Brighton, East Sussex, England.

Crawley ByPass: the original road was through the town

An LB&SCR plaque on the (western) railway bridge over Battersea Park Road, SW8, showing the company armorial bearings. The cross (top) represents London, the two dolphins (bottom) Brighton, the three half-lions half-ships (right) the Cinque Ports, and the star and crescent (left) Portsmouth.

London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

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Railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

Railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

An LB&SCR plaque on the (western) railway bridge over Battersea Park Road, SW8, showing the company armorial bearings. The cross (top) represents London, the two dolphins (bottom) Brighton, the three half-lions half-ships (right) the Cinque Ports, and the star and crescent (left) Portsmouth.
A map of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway at London Victoria station
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Bricklayers Arms and London Bridge station, as well as surrounding lines. LB&SCR lines are shown in green.
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map of lines around the Brighton Main Line between South Croydon and Selhurst
A 1912 Railway Clearing House map of lines around Clapham Junction and the approaches to Victoria
A 1908 Railway Clearing House map, showing the Sutton & Mole Valley Lines though South London
A 1910 Railway Clearing House map, showing part of the lines around Portsmouth
1905 Map showing the LB&SCR "Quarry line" and the original SER line
Sketch map of LB&SCR routes in 1922
A LB&SCR poster advertising the Isle of Wight
1906 poster advertising rail motor services
Construction of overhead electrical lines, c. 1908
An SL Class train on the South London Line at Wandsworth Road station, about 1909
The signal box at Crawley built by Saxby and Farmer in 1877
LB&SCR coach no. 661 at Horsted Keynes, Bluebell Railway
B2 Class 213 Bessemer 1897, in Stroudley's "Improved Engine Green!"
A map showing the main LB&SCR ferry routes in 1888
The entrance to Horsted Keynes railway station typical of several late Victorian LB&SCR country stations in Sussex

However, the railway's existence began to generate new goods and passenger traffic at towns and villages on or near the main line, such as Reigate, Crawley and Haywards Heath.

Crawley Railway Station

Crawley railway station

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Crawley Railway Station
Crawley Station in 2008 showing the original now disused platforms.
Crawley Signal Box

Crawley railway station is a railway station serving the town of Crawley in West Sussex, England.

Mid Sussex District

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Local government district in the English non-metropolitan county of West Sussex, within the historic county of Sussex.

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.

Bewbush

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Bewbush is one of 14 neighbourhoods in Crawley in West Sussex, England.

Reigate and Banstead

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Local government district with borough status in east Surrey, England.

Local government district with borough status in east Surrey, England.

The borough borders the Borough of Crawley (in West Sussex) to the south, the Borough of Epsom and Ewell and District of Mole Valley to the west, Tandridge District to the east and the London Boroughs of Sutton and Croydon to the north.

GP surgery in Furnace Green.

Furnace Green

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GP surgery in Furnace Green.

Furnace Green is one of 14 neighbourhoods in Crawley in West Sussex, England, and a local government ward.

This 1932 map shows the crossroads, inn, church and "Old Windmill"

Lowfield Heath

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This 1932 map shows the crossroads, inn, church and "Old Windmill"
County Oak Cottage; the part built around 1700 is on the right
St Michael and All Angels Church from the northeast
Looking north towards the runway, immediately behind the lorry (centre). This road was part of the main route from London to Brighton until the 1950s
Eastward view along Church Road

Lowfield Heath is a former village within the boundaries of the Borough of Crawley, West Sussex, England.

Looking northeast along Smalls Mead, the first residential development of the New town

West Green, West Sussex

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Looking northeast along Smalls Mead, the first residential development of the New town
The Crawley Borough area, showing the 13 neighbourhoods; West Green is shown in dark blue
Crawley Hospital
Crawley Baptist Church
The George Hotel
34–36 High Street
44–48 High Street

West Green is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.