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The main road through the town is also the A272 (east west road) and has all the usual shops including Woolworths, Boots, Smiths, and Halfords.
©Nigel Freeman
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Former Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel established here by the English Convent of Bruges in 1886. The purchase of the Hazelgrove estate behind the building enables the Priory to eventually construct the building which was consecrated in 1897. It remained in use until the late 1970s when the nuns move to Sayers Commons, the grounds were turned into a housing estate and the building itself converted into a bar and restaurant the latter located in the formal chapel which has been largely maintained along with the windows. Taken from the corner of Triangle Road with Sussex Square and South Road in the distance.
©Simon Carey
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Dist:0.1km<br/>An ancient highway that once crossed the lonely heath from Lindfield to Ditchling now the B2112. One the main shopping streets of the town though not the original as the distance between buildings and pavement on both sides implies former gardens. The large building to the left was built in the late 1960s and included a Co-op department store at its base which has long gone. The crane to the right is currently helping to construct new buildings on the site of the former Sussex Hotel built at the crossroads in 1861 and originally known as the Volunteer.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of the earliest roads established in Haywards Heath linking the road to Uckfield with that to Wivelsfield across a small piece of land known as the Triangle. Houses and shops were established in this road by the early 1870s.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pub located at the junction of Sussex Road, the B2112, and Triangle Road. The building appears on the 1897 OS map but is not marked as a public house until 1910 most likely opened to serve the growing communities to the west and south.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>Built in the late 1980s on the site of a former builders yard owned Thomas White Ltd that had occupied the spot from the early part of the century to the 1980s and had been responsible for building a fair proportion of the current town. The white building to the left was the old site office and is now a chartered accountants. Taken from the junction with Franklynn Road (A272).
©Simon Carey
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Dist:0.2km<br/>On the junction of the A272 and Western Road. There has been one here, albeit under different names, since at least the 1970s
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>The water tower marks the highest point in the town and nearby is the Princess Royal Hospital linked to The Royal Sussex County Hospital at Brighton.
©Nigel Freeman
Dist:0.2km<br/>A 1960s shop and office block on the main shopping road of the town.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.2km<br/>Late Victorian terraced cottages in a small cul-de-sac off Franklynn Road though a footpath at the bottom connects to Kents Road.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.3km<br/>Residential street linking Kents Road to Wivelsfield Road, the B2112. They were built during the 1860s as the town of Haywards Heath began to grow.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.3km<br/>The only building on the northern side of the small lane opposite the terraced cottages. The whitewashed sign on the side of the building advertises Thomas Whites the builder that once occupied the yard between Petlands Gardens and Franklynn Road.
©Simon Carey

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