Crawley and Related Topics

Ifield Water Mill

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Ifield Brook as it flows into the mill pond

Ifield Water Mill is a 19th-century weatherboarded watermill in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.

Hazelwick School

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Hazelwick School is a co-educational comprehensive school with academy status for pupils aged 11 to 18, located in Crawley, West Sussex, England.

Air Europe

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Wholly privately owned, independent British airline, established in 1978 under the working title Inter European Airways.

An Air Europe Boeing 757-200 at Newcastle Airport in the 1980s.

An Air Europe Boeing 737-2S3 Adv leased to British Airtours under the early-to mid-1980s AE–BA aircraft swap lease, seen at London Gatwick Airport in March 1984.

G-BNDI Air Europe Express Short 360 at Gatwick in 1990

Its head office was in Reigate, Surrey, then in Crawley, West Sussex.

Laker Airways

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Private British airline founded by Sir Freddie Laker in 1966.

Skytrain Adhesive Advertising Banner. It uses the integrated images of the US and the UK flags.

Laker Airways aircraft stored the day after bankruptcy

Its head office was located at Gatwick Airport in Crawley, England.

Fastway (bus rapid transit)

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Bus priority includes this bus lane over the middle of Tushmore Roundabout in Crawley, allowing buses to by-pass other traffic.

A stretch of guided Busway on the A23 London Road in Crawley. This leads up to the bus lane over the roundabout.

Three Fastway Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse 2 buses at Gatwick Airport on routes 10 and 20.

Sometimes, when not enough Fastway vehicles are available, standard buses have to substitute. Seen here is a double-decker operating route 100 outside Horley Library.

Fastway is a bus rapid transit network in Surrey and West Sussex, United Kingdom, linking Crawley with Gatwick Airport and Horley, the first to be constructed outside a major city.

South East England

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One of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure on the Berkshire Downs.

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus seen from the air in September 2015; the JANET academic computer network is headquartered there.

Terramycin, an early antibiotic developed by Pfizer in Kent, synthesised by American chemist Robert Burns Woodward, and led to the common antibiotic doxycycline.

South Foreland Lighthouse on Dover cliffs.

BritNed connects from the Isle of Grain in Medway to the TenneT network in the Netherlands.

England population density and low elevation coastal zones. South East England is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise

View of South East England coast from northern France.

The Litlington White Horse situated in the South Downs.

How the region voted in the 2016 European referendum; in the South East England region, only the Spelthorne district in Surrey strongly wanted to leave the EU; propensity for the EU followed the M3 and M4 corridors, western Oxfordshire and central parts of Sussex, including Brighton and Hove.

Reading School often gets the highest percentage of Oxbridge acceptances for a state school in England.

Tom Tower of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1920, the University of Oxford was the first in the UK to award degrees to women.

Redhill with the diesel Class 166 service run by First Great Western to Reading as the line has not got the Third rail electrification fully installed on the North Downs Line

Most main routes in the region are radials from London. Shown here is the A21. It is one of the major north–south routes connecting London and commuter towns and the coast

Vodafone HQ north of Newbury; it arrived as Racal-Vodafone in 1983, when Bayer also arrived; Vodafone is the world's second-biggest mobile phone company (the world's largest privately owned) with £40 billion of revenue and 464 million customers, and profits of £11bn; it has around 19M UK customers, and by value makes up about 5% of the FTSE 100.

Horlicks factory in Slough; GSK Slough makes 14,000 tonnes a year.

Jealott's Hill Research Station (pesticides), former ICI Plant Protection Division.

Sheilas' Wheels outside the head office of esure in Reigate; esure was started by Peter Wood.

Esso UK is based in Leatherhead; Esso have around 1,100 petrol stations in the UK - 14% of all stations, and pays around £7bn in UK tax, and own the Brent oil field; the site is also the worldwide base of ExxonMobil Aviation Fuels and Marine.

Martin-Baker Mk 9 ejection seat; Martin-Baker seats have saved around 950 RAF pilots, and around 7600 pilots around the world, and were developed by Sir James Martin (1893–1981) from Northern Ireland.

Argos head office on Avebury Boulevard in Milton Keynes; Argos was established in 1973 from what was the Green Shield Stamps company and shops, and since 2016 has been owned by Sainsbury's, formerly Home Retail Group.

Ordnance Survey headquarters at Adanac Park.

National Air Traffic Service headquarters at Swanwick.

The AA's headquarters at Fanum House in Basingstoke.

Virgin Atlantic on Manor Royal in Crawley; Virgin has 12 747s compared to BA's 56, but both have around 18 of the new Airbus 380; Gatwick now flies 40 million passengers a year, a world record for a single-runway airport.

Around 1,000 Minis are made each day in Cowley; BMW bought the plant in 1994 and has made around 3m since 2001; there are 4,500 staff and around ten miles of conveyors; the engines are made at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire.

Williams F1 at Grove, next to the Great Western Main Line and A338, north of Wantage.

BBC Research was based until 2010 in Kingswood Warren near Reigate in Surrey on the A217, which was responsible for developing stereo and HD TV broadcasts and teletext.

Michael Whyte on Highpark Lad at the British Jumping Derby at Hickstead in June 2011.

The Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield, the birthplace of cricket.

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.

Laura Moffatt

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British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Crawley from 1997 until 2010.

Born Laura Jean Field in London in 1954, she was educated at Hazelwick School in Crawley, West Sussex before attending the Crawley College of Technology (now renamed Central Sussex College).

Welwyn Garden City, one of the early new towns

New towns in the United Kingdom

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The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 and later acts to relocate populations in poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War.