Lindfield

After buying the farmhouse of Townlands Farm in 1875, Charles Kempe promptly began to enlarge the property in a style in keeping with the existing small house. The property was renamed Old Place, with the original building called West Wing. The decorated column in the garden is a sundial, said to be a copy of the one at Pembroke College, Oxford where Kempe studied. On the top of the sundial is a pelican feeding her young, symbolically representing piety. Sir David Hunt, who in 1977 won the television programme `Mastermind`, lived here.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".

Mrs Horsefield was just as enterprising as her husband; she opened a meat-free restaurant in Haywards Heath, which became very popular. Her next enterprise was to convert the adjacent Elizabethan barn into a tearoom, which gave adults the chance to keep an eye on the children whilst also catching up with the latest news. In this photograph, business seems to be brisk! By the mid 1970s, the mill had stopped working, and the both the mill and barn are now private residences.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999. The post office is in the adjacent building off to the right of the photograph. These buildings give a cottagy feel to what is essentially a commercial street, as we can see from the buildings opposite - they house a shop, a pub and the outbuildings of a brewery. The large black poplar tree in the centre of the photograph was cut down in 1962, as it had become a hazard.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".

The house was built in 1595 by Ninien Boord (his father had been court jester to King Henry VIII). The extensive estate was used by Canadian troops during World War II. Part of the estate was later to become a golf course with exhilarating views of the surrounding countryside and attractive villages.
An extract from from"Haywards Heath Living Memories".

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.The village has many historic houses. The Bower House is a timber-framed hall house with a kingpost roof.The Tiger public house was once Church House—behind the brick façade it has a king post roof and a 15th-century hall. The half-timbered Thatched Cottage was built c1390 by the Chaloner family, who were French immigrant broadloom blanket weavers.
An extract from from"Villages of Sussex Pocket Album".