Haywards Heath, Sussex in 1918

Directory of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in Haywards Heath, Sussex. The Haywards Heath, Sussex listing uses information from census, Trade Directories and History to add licensees, bar staff, Lodgers and Visitors.

The Public House listing for Haywards Heath also includes the towns of Ardingly, Balcombe, Bolney, Lindfield, and Wivelsfield. Brief descriptions in 1918 follow:

Ardingly, formerly called "Erthingleigh", is a parish and village situated on an eminence, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country, and on a Roman Road and the river Ouse, with a station on the branch line of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway from East Grinstead to Haywards Heath 1.5 miles south from the village, 6 miles north-east from Cuckfield, 3.5 miles east from Balcombe station and 38 south from London, 8 from East Grinstead and 17 north from Brighton.
The population in 1911 was 1,332 in the civil parish and 1,289 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Public Houses include the Gardeners Arms, the Greyhound and the Railway Hotel.

Balcombe is a village and parish with a station on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, which at this place passes through a tunnel 1,133 yards in length, and is also carried on a viaduct of 37 arches, over the valley of the River Ouse.
Balcombe is 17 miles north of Brighton, 33 from London and 4 north from Cuckfield.
The water works, now the property of the Mid Sussex Joint Water Board, were erected on an eminence in this parish in 1890, and supply the village and the adjoining parishes of Ardingley, Bolney, Cuckfield, Haywards Heath, Lindfield, Peas Pottage, Slaugham, Staplefield, Warninglid and Wivelsfield.
The population in 1911 was 1,221; and has two Public Houses, the Half Moon and the Railway Inn.

Bolney is a parish and scattered village on the road from London to Brighton, 3 miles north-west from Cuckfield and 5.5 from Haywards Heath station.
The population in 1911 was 826. Public Houses include the Eight Bells and the Queens Head.

Cuckfield is a union town and parish, pleasantly situated on an eminence in the centre of the county and about 2 miles west from the London and Brighton railway station at Haywards Heath, 14 miles from Brighton, 39 miles from London, 10 south-east from Horsham and 14 north-west from Lewes.
The town is lighted with gas from works established in 1861, and water from Balcombe.
The population in 1911, including 19 officers and 187 inmates in the poor law institution was 1,899 in the civil and 2,678 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Public Houses included the Green Cross Inn, Kings Head Hotel, Kings Head Tap, Rose & Crown, Ship Inn, Talbot Hotel, Talbot Tap, Wheatsheaf and the White Hart Inn.

Lindfield is a village and parish, situated on the summit of a hill and on the banks of the river Ouse, which was formerly navigable for barges up to this place; it is 1.5 miles north-east from Haywards Heath station, 39 from London and 3.5 from Cuckfield.
The cemetery, 4.5 acres in extent and three quarters of a mile east of the village was opened in 1854. The King Edward Hall, built in 1911, contains a public hall to seat 350, a library and billiard room.
The population in 1911 was 3,125 in the civil and 2,628 in the ecclesiastical parish. Scaynes Hill is about 2 miles south east.

Public Houses included the Anchor, Bent Arms, Bricklayers Arms, Red Lion Hotel, Sloop Inn, Snowdrop, Tiger Inn and the White Horse.

Wivelsfield is a parish and village, with a station (locally in Keymer), 2 miles north, 2.5 miles south from Haywards Heath station and 4 south-east from Cuckfield.
The population of the civil parish in 1911 was 2,241, inclusive of 845 inmates and 106 officials and their familes in the Brighton Borough Asylum. The population of the ecclesiastical parish was 1,760.
Public House included the Cock Inn and the Fox & Hounds.


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