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
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Robert Smith

Large town and borough in West Sussex, England.

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Crawley (UK Parliament constituency)

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Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Henry Smith of the Conservative Party.

Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Henry Smith of the Conservative Party.

The constituency covers the whole of the town and borough of Crawley in West Sussex, and London Gatwick Airport is a significant employment centre.

Balcombe

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Village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Nearby towns include Crawley to the north west and Haywards Heath to the south south east.

The Pease Pottage radar

Pease Pottage

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Village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

Village in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

The Pease Pottage radar
The Grapes Inn pictured in 2009, just before its demolition

It lies on the southern edge of the Crawley built-up area, in the civil parish of Slaugham.

Worthing

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

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

"Weorð," an Old English word meaning 'valiant one'
The backfilled remains of a flint mine shaft, one of about 270 mine shafts at Cissbury. From around 4000BC, the South Downs above Worthing was Britain's earliest and largest flint-mining area.
The marbled Edwardian architecture of The Royal Arcade, Worthing
Photochrom print of South Street in the 1890s, showing the Old Town Hall
Built in 1933, Worthing Town Hall replaced the town's original Georgian town hall as the headquarters of Worthing Borough Council
At 184 m above sea level, the summit of Cissbury Ring is the highest point in Worthing.
The Church of St Andrew the Apostle (Church of England)
St Andrew's is the parish church of West Tarring.
The Masjid Assalam mosque serves the town's Sunni Muslim population.
Worthing College's campus in Broadwater
Worthing Victorian Promenade Shelter at Dusk, July 2018
A Southern train arrives at Worthing railway station.
Centenary House is the headquarters of the West Downs division of Sussex Police.
Harold Pinter's former house in Ambrose Place
Facing the seafront, the Dome Cinema first opened in 1911 and is one of the UK's oldest working cinemas.
Worthing Pier, an Art Deco masterpiece, 2018
Regency Townouses in Ambrose Place, Worthing
Beach House was built by John Rebecca in the 1820s.
Boat porches are found only in Worthing.
The dramatic Art Deco-inspired Warnes building on Marine Parade, Worthing
Lake at Brooklands Park.
Beach House Park.
The offices of the Worthing Herald and Worthing Advertiser opened in 1991.

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

The junction of Peeks Brook Lane and Fernhill Road in Fernhill

Fernhill, West Sussex

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Hamlet close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England.

Hamlet close to Gatwick Airport in West Sussex, England.

The junction of Peeks Brook Lane and Fernhill Road in Fernhill
Fernhill's former Baptist chapel is now a house.
Gatwick House (1876) has been converted from a country house into offices.

Its fields and farmhouses formerly straddled the county boundary between Surrey and West Sussex, but since 1990 (when there were about 60 households) the whole area has been part of the county of West Sussex and the borough of Crawley.

Simplified geological cross section of the western Weald, showing how the land was uplifted to form the Weald-Artois anticline (dashed lines) and the strata as they are today (solid lines).

Dorking

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Market town in Surrey in South East England, about 34 km south of London.

Market town in Surrey in South East England, about 34 km south of London.

Simplified geological cross section of the western Weald, showing how the land was uplifted to form the Weald-Artois anticline (dashed lines) and the strata as they are today (solid lines).
An engraving of Deepdene House (1842) by the illustrator Thomas Allom (1804–1872)
Dorking Deepdene railway station (then known simply as "Deepdene"), photographed in June 1964
A female Dorking chicken
The mock-Tudor arch leading from South Street to Rose Hill
The 14-storey Linden Lea tower block was built as part of the Goodwyns estate in 1965.
The north transept of the 12th century medieval parish church, demolished c. 1830.
The Grade II listed United Reformed Church, built 1834.
A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleaning a Tommy gun (December 1940)
Entrance to Pippbrook, the offices of Mole Valley District Council in Reigate Road
The Old Pumphouse, Archway Place
Dorking Fire Brigade was based at the old Public Hall on West Street from 1881 to 1971.
Dorking railway station and signal box
Sculpture of two racing cyclists at the Pixham End roundabout, where the Surrey Cycleway and National Cycle Route 22 meet.
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
"Let there be light", a decorative moulding above one of the shops in the High Street.
Meadowbank Stadium with the spire of St Martin's Church
Stirling Moss (car 14) on the final lap of the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix at Circuit Zandvoort.
Denbies Wine Estate, looking north towards the visitor centre
Stone lion in Deepdene Gardens
The mill pond at Meadowbank
"The Temple" at The Nower
Dorking Halls
Pippbrook House
The "Dorking Cockerel" photographed during the London 2012 Olympic Games
War Memorial in South Street

Routes 21 (Epsom – Dorking – Crawley) and 22 (Shere – Dorking – Crawley) are run by Metrobus.

Official portrait, 2017

Henry Smith (British politician)

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English Conservative Party politician.

English Conservative Party politician.

Official portrait, 2017

At the time he also worked for a property investment business based in Crawley in West Sussex.

GB Airways

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The Beehive, which served as the headquarters of GB Airways
GibAir Douglas DC-3 in 1970
A GB Airways Boeing 737-200 seen in 1992.
GB Airways Airbus A320 landing at Gibraltar Airport.

GB Airways was a British airline; prior to its sale, it was headquartered in "The Beehive," a former terminal building, at City Place Gatwick, London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, England.

The Hyde Park Gate in London, erected by the Kensington Turnpike Trust. This was the first toll point encountered along the Bath Road, upon leaving London.

Turnpike trust

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Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Turnpike trusts were bodies set up by individual acts of Parliament, with powers to collect road tolls for maintaining the principal roads in Britain from the 17th but especially during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Hyde Park Gate in London, erected by the Kensington Turnpike Trust. This was the first toll point encountered along the Bath Road, upon leaving London.
Chevaux de frise, Siege of Petersburg, American Civil War
The Great North Road near Highgate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land.
The front page of the Act to create the Fyfield Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Gloucester in 1738
Map of the Turnpike Tollgates in London 1801.
The schedule of maximum tolls allowed on the Woodstock to Rollright Turnpike Trust on the Great Road to Worcester in 1751
Roadside sign marking boundary between parish and turnpike trust responsibility, Christchurch Road East, Frome, Somerset
The Round House (Old Toll House) at Stanton Drew
Poster advertising the letting of tolls, 1826.
The surviving Copper Castle Tollhouse on the Honiton Turnpike.
A surviving milestone at Beedon on the Chilton Pond to Newtown River Turnpike.
Milepost on the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike at Gargrave: Settle 10 3/4, Kendal 40, Skipton 4 ¾ and Keighley 14 miles.
A stagecoach approaching Oxford along the Henley Turnpike Road. The dust is thrown up from the Macadamised surface. Early 1800s.

An example is the first Turnpike Act for Surrey in 1696, during the reign of William III for enhanced repairs between Reigate in Surrey and Crawley in Sussex.

The Green Wing with the Urgent Treatment Centre entrance on West Green Drive

Crawley Hospital

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The Green Wing with the Urgent Treatment Centre entrance on West Green Drive

Crawley Hospital is a National Health Service hospital in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England.