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Book detail:

Title:

Burgess Hill.

Author(s):

Hugh Matthews.

Parish(s) covered:

Burgess Hill.

Precis:

Burgess Hill is generally regarded as a 'new' town, since most of the present fabric of the place dates from the mid-19th century or later. Yet there was a thriving settlement in Tudor times and the author has succeeded both in reconstructing Elizabethan Burgess Hill and in producing a remarkably detailed picture of its subsequent growth.
In a narative full of human interest, he reveals how ordinary people lived, how they held and worked their land and how they coped with the problem of making ends meet as the community developed through the 17th and 18th centuries. The enclosure of the commons in the early 19th century, followed by the coming of the railway in 1841, led to major changes in the second half of that century and the birth of the town of today. It swallowed up scores of acres of virgin land, never before cultivated or built upon, instead of gradual expansion outwards from an old-established centre.
Mr Matthews had made a significant contribution to the published history of Sussex. He has also provided Burgess Hill with the history that it always thought it lacked. Residents of the modern town cannot fail to be fascinated by the insight he gives into the making of the town and its unusual pattern for development, or by the richness of the detail of the lifes of generations of their predecessors.
Mark Dudeney has written a final chapter in this book, bringing the story of Burgess Hill into the new millennium.

First Published:

2006.

ISBN 13:

978 7 86077 437 9.

Publisher details:

Name: Phillimore & Co. Ltd.

Address: Shopwyke Manor Barn Chichester West Sussex England PO20 2BG.

Website: http://www.phillimore.co.uk/.

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