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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Crawley Down like this:
CRAWLEY DOWN, a chapelry in Worth parish, Sussex; 5 miles SE of Crawley. It was constituted in 1862; and it has a post office under Crawley. Pop., 1, 400. The living is a vicarage. Value, £149.
Crawley Down is now part of MID SUSSEX District. Click here for graphs and data of how MID SUSSEX has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Crawley Down itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Crawley Down, in Mid Sussex and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23717
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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