Beyond Brighton · about 34 minutes north by train
Crawley, about 34 minutes north of Brighton by train: a market town of 1203 and new town of 1947, Worth’s Saxon church, Tilgate and Goffs Park, the Memorial Gardens, the Hawth and Gatwick on the doorstep.
Town guide
A “crow-infested clearing”, a market town on the London to Brighton road, a racecourse that became Gatwick, and a new town of 1947.
Town guide
Lakes and woodland at Tilgate, a Victorian house and pitch and putt at Goffs Park, and specimen trees in the Memorial Gardens.
On the High Street
The Wetherspoon on Crawley’s Grand Parade, at the High Street, open from breakfast.
6 Grand Parade, High Street, Crawley RH10 1BUExplore View on map
Since 2024
An indoor climbing centre at Pease Pottage, with climbing walls, soft play and laser tag, open since February 2024.
6 Forest Park Way, Pease Pottage, Crawley RH11 9ZGExplore View on map
Crawley’s oldest building
The church of St Nicholas at Worth, with Saxon origins: Crawley’s oldest building.
Lakes, woods and a zoo
Crawley’s great park of lakes, gardens and woodland, with watersports on the lake and Tilgate Zoo.
Crawley’s oldest park
Over twenty hectares of woodland, lawns and a lake, with pitch and putt, a model railway and an 1882 house.
Horsham Road, Southgate, CrawleyExplore View on map
Victorian bandstand
Town-centre gardens with mature trees, a Victorian bandstand and a play area.
Near Gatwick
A big Haskins garden centre at Copthorne, on the edge of Crawley near Gatwick.
Fourteen of them
Fourteen neighbourhoods built as villages, each with its own shops, school, church and pub, around the town centre.
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