Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Crawley

Crawley, par. and vil. with ry. sta., E. Sussex, 7½ miles NE. of Horsham, 780 ac., pop. 451; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 4 newspapers. Market-day, Wednesday; is situated in a pleasant neighbourhood, within moderate distance of Tilgate Forest.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Crawley CP/AP/Ch       Sussex AncC
Place: Crawley

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