Ifield, The Village 1905
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Crawley's expansion as a planned New Town after 1947 took in hamlets right up to Ifield. It was a small and sleepy Sussex village, until then remote in the rolling landscape of the western Weald, a landscape of small dense hedged fields and oak trees. Behind the photographer is now the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley New Town, but looking towards the church of this tiny hamlet the view is virtually unchanged.

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A Selection of Memories from Ifield

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Ifield

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My parents bought Strathmore which was a large house with 4 1/2 acres of garden just opposite the village shop on the road to Charlwood. We lived there as a family until about 1965, Peter Butterworth was a neighbour. Both my sisters Anne & Carolyn were married in Ifield Church. Friends who also lived in the village were John Reynolds and George Dutton. The Laker family were our gardeners. Strathmore is now a development of 54 Georgian style houses.