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Burgess Hill
Town and parish in West Sussex, England

Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 mi (63 km) south of London, 10 mi (16 km) north of Brighton and Hove, and 29 mi (47 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester.

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It had an area of 3.7 sq mi (9.6 km2) and a population of 30,635 at the 2011 Census, making it the fourth most populous parish in the county and the most populous in the Mid Sussex District. Other nearby towns include Haywards Heath to the northeast and Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, to the southeast.

Get in

Getting to Burgess Hill

Burgess Hill railway station has a regular service on the London to Brighton line, as does Wivelsfield railway station (which also connects to the Lewes line), which serves the north end of the town. The London to Brighton line also connects the town with Gatwick Airport. There is also a bus service from Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, Brighton and other local towns and villages.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    St John's Park
  2. 02
    Batchelors Farm Nature Reserve

    33-acre open space owned by the local council.

  3. 03
    Bedelands Nature Reserve
  4. 04
    Ditchling Common Nature Reserves

    188 acres.

  5. 05
    Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft

    Ditchling (3 miles SSE of Burgess Hill).

Do

Things to do

Go walking around Burgess Hill. It has many parks and nature reserves on the outskirts and is surrounded by the beautiful Sussex scenery in all directions. Visit the Triangle, a large leisure centre on the northwestern fringe of the town with easy access to the A23. It has both indoor and outdoor pools and whirlpools, flumes, and a pool intended solely for swimming.

Eat

Where to eat

In the centre of the town are plenty of cafes and coffee houses, including Mooch@76, shown on the Channel

How locals move

Getting around Burgess Hill the local way

  • Go nextDieppe, France – by ferry from Newhaven Harbour, about east of Brighton.

From Wikivoyage: Brighton, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Antiquary (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.