Editing Crawley (section)

=== Neighbourhoods and areas ===
[[File:Shopping Parade, Southgate.JPG|thumb|right|The Southgate neighbourhood's parade of shops]]
[[File:Crawley Colour-Coded Neighbourhood Street Sign - Southgate.JPG|thumb|right|Each neighbourhood has colour-coded street name signs ''(Southgate example pictured)''.]]
[[File:Crawley Neighbourhoods with Colours.png|thumb|right|Neighbourhoods of Crawley, identified in the table]]
[[File:Lowfield Heath (E) 01.JPG|thumb|right|Church Road in [[Lowfield Heath]] village, looking east towards [[St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath|St Michael and All Angels Church]]. No houses remain here; a hotel, depots and light industrial units have replaced the earlier development.]]
There are 14 residential neighbourhoods,<ref name="CBCN">{{cite web|url=http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=870|title=Crawley Borough Council: Crawley's Neighbourhoods|access-date=2 April 2008|publisher=Crawley Borough Council|year=2008|work=Crawley Borough Council website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802052549/http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=870|archive-date=2 August 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> each with a variety of housing types: terraced, semi-detached and detached houses, low-rise flats and bungalows. There are no residential tower blocks, apart from the 8-storey [[Milton Mount Flats]] at the North end of [[Pound Hill]].<ref name="Baseline24">{{cite web|url=http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/report/int163920.pdf|title=Crawley Baseline Character Assessment|date=May 2009|publisher=EDAW/[[AECOM]]|page=24|access-date=9 March 2010|archive-date=8 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608024540/http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/report/int163920.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Many houses have their own gardens and are set back from roads. The hub of each neighbourhood is a shopping parade, community centre and church, and each has a school and recreational open spaces as well.<ref name="vicdates">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18415|title=Growth of the New Town|access-date=7 August 2007|publisher=Victoria County History|year=1987|author=Hudson, T.P. (Ed)|work=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231113/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18415|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Crawley Development Corporation]]'s intention was for neighbourhood shops to cater only to basic needs, and for the town centre to be used for most shopping requirements. The number of shop units provided in the neighbourhood parades reflected this: despite the master plan making provision for at least 20 shops in each neighbourhood,<ref name="econhist">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18418|title=Crawley New Town: Economic History|access-date=3 July 2007|publisher=British History Online|year=1987|author=Hudson, T.P. (Ed)|work=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3: Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927221049/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=18418|url-status=live}}</ref> the number actually built ranged from 19 in the outlying [[Langley Green, West Sussex|Langley Green]] neighbourhood to just seven in [[West Green, West Sussex|West Green]], close to the town centre.<ref name="13years"/>

Each of the 14 residential neighbourhoods is identified by a colour, which is shown on street name signs in a standard format throughout the town: below the street name, the neighbourhood name is shown in white text on a coloured background.<ref>{{cite map |publisher=G.I. Barnett & Sons Ltd|title=Street Plan of Crawley|year=1970|cartography=Ordnance Survey|scale=5.6" = 1-mile }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Number<br />on map
!Name
!Colour
!Construction<br />commenced<ref name="vicdates"/>
!Population<ref name="stats">{{cite web|url=http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/|title=Neighbourhood Statistics|access-date=7 August 2007|publisher=Office for National Statistics|year=2007|work=National Statistics website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507114341/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/|archive-date=7 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><br>(2007)<br>{{Needs update|date=April 2025}}
|-
| style="text-align:center; background:gray; color:white;"| 1 
|[[Langley Green, West Sussex|Langley Green]]
|Grey
| style="text-align:center;"| 1952
| style="text-align:center;"| 7,286
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#228b22;color:white;" | 2 
|[[Northgate, West Sussex|Northgate]]
|Dark green
| style="text-align:center;"| 1951
| style="text-align:center;"| 4,407
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ffa000;"| 3
|[[Pound Hill]]
|Orange
| style="text-align:center;"| 1953
| style="text-align:center;"| 14,716
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#084c9e;color:white;" | 4 
|[[Maidenbower]]
|Blue
| style="text-align:center;"| 1987
| style="text-align:center;"| 8,070
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#32cd32;"| 5
|[[Furnace Green]]
|Light green
| style="text-align:center;"| 1960
| style="text-align:center;"| 5,734
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:red;color:white;" | 6 
|[[Tilgate]]
|Red
| style="text-align:center;"| 1955
| style="text-align:center;"| 6,198
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#7df9ff;"| 7
|[[Broadfield, West Sussex|Broadfield]]
|Sky blue
| style="text-align:center;"| 1969
| style="text-align:center;"| 12,666
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#c72;"| 8
|[[Bewbush]]
|Light brown
| style="text-align:center;"| 1975
| style="text-align:center;"| 9,081
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#919;color:white;" | 9 
|[[Ifield, West Sussex|Ifield]]
|Purple
| style="text-align:center;"| 1953
| style="text-align:center;"| 8,414
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:navy;color:white;" | 10 
|[[West Green, West Sussex|West Green]]
|Dark blue
| style="text-align:center;"| 1949
| style="text-align:center;"| 4,404
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:maroon;color:white;" | 11 
|[[Gossops Green]]
|Maroon
| style="text-align:center;"| 1956
| style="text-align:center;"| 5,014
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#964b00;color:white;" | 12 
|[[Southgate, West Sussex|Southgate]]
|Brown
| style="text-align:center;"| 1955
| style="text-align:center;"| 8,106
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#fde910;"| 13
|[[Three Bridges, West Sussex|Three Bridges]]
|Yellow
| style="text-align:center;"| 1952
| style="text-align:center;"| 5,648
|-
|  style="text-align:center; background:#ff00ee;"| 14
|[[Forge Wood]]
|Pink
| style="text-align:center;"| 2014
| style="text-align:center;"| 
|}

There are areas which are not defined as neighbourhoods but which are closely associated with Crawley:
* The [[Manor Royal]] industrial estate is in the north of the town. Although it is part of the [[Northgate Ward|Northgate ward]], it is allocated a colour: its street name signs feature the word "Industrial" on a black background.
* Crawley's town centre is in the southernmost part of Northgate. Its street name signs do not follow the standard format of the neighbourhood signs but display only the street name.
* [[Gatwick Airport]] was built on the site of a manor house, Gatwick Manor, close to the village of [[Lowfield Heath]]. Most of the village was demolished when the airport expanded, but the [[Listed building|Grade II*-listed]] [[St Michael and All Angels Church, Lowfield Heath|St Michael and All Angels Church]],<ref name="StMLH">{{cite web|url=http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/diocesesparishes/rcsale/lowfieldheath.html|title=Lowfield Heath St Michael|access-date=31 March 2008|publisher=The Archbishops' Council|year=2007|work=The Church of England website|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080224175604/http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/diocesesparishes/rcsale/lowfieldheath.html |archive-date = 24 February 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> remains. The site of [[Lowfield Heath|Lowfield Heath village]], now occupied by warehouses and light industrial units,<ref name="Gwynne170">{{Harvnb|Gwynne|1990|p=170.}}</ref> is on the airport's southern boundary, between the perimeter road and the A23 close to [[Manor Royal]].
* [[Worth, West Sussex|Worth]] was originally a village with its own [[civil parish]], lying just beyond the eastern edge of the Crawley urban area and borough boundary;<ref>{{cite map |publisher=Ordnance Survey|title= Sheet 187: Dorking, Reigate and Crawley|year= 1980|scale= 1:50,000|series= Landranger Series of Great Britain}}</ref> but the development of the [[Pound Hill]] and [[Maidenbower]] neighbourhoods has filled in the gaps, and the [[borough]] boundary has been extended to include the whole of the village. The [[civil parish]] of [[Worth, West Sussex|Worth]] remains, albeit reduced in size, as part of the [[Mid Sussex District|Mid Sussex]] district.
* [[Tinsley Green, West Sussex|Tinsley Green]], a [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] in [[Worth, West Sussex|Worth parish]],<ref name="VCH56946">{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/Sussex/vol7/pp192-200|title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7 – The Rape of Lewes. Parishes:Worth|editor-last=Salzman|editor-first=L. F. |year=1940|work=Victoria County History of Sussex|publisher=British History Online|pages=192–200|access-date=12 January 2010|archive-date=8 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108005142/https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/Sussex/vol7/pp192-200|url-status=live}}</ref> is now within the [[Forgewood|Forge Wood]] neighbourhood. Its houses, farms and public house, the [[Greyhound]] (at which the [[British and World Marbles Championship]] has been held annually since 1932),<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/04/british-world-marble-championship|title=Event preview: British And World Marbles Championship, Tinsley Green|last=Aitch|first=Iain|date=4 April 2009|work=The Guardian|location=UK|publisher=Guardian News and Media Ltd|access-date=13 January 2010|archive-date=3 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140303005759/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/apr/04/british-world-marble-championship|url-status=live}}</ref> lie on or around an east–west minor road running from the main [[Balcombe]]–[[Horley]] road to the [[Manor Royal estate]].<ref name="NESectorApp">{{cite web|url=http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssTargetNodeId=560&ssDocName=PLA_18537&pageCSS=&pApplicationNo=cr/1998/0039/out&pDayFrom=01&pMonthFrom=01&pYearFrom=09&pDayTo=31&pMonthTo=01&pYearTo=10&pWard=&pLocation=&pPostcode=&pDateType=received&pProposal=&pAppealsOnly=|title=Planning Application No. CR/1998/0039/OUT|date=21 January 1998|work=Crawley Borough Council planning application|publisher=Crawley Borough Council|access-date=13 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608005642/http://www.crawley.gov.uk/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssTargetNodeId=560&ssDocName=PLA_18537&pageCSS=&pApplicationNo=cr%2F1998%2F0039%2Fout&pDayFrom=01&pMonthFrom=01&pYearFrom=09&pDayTo=31&pMonthTo=01&pYearTo=10&pWard=&pLocation=&pPostcode=&pDateType=received&pProposal=&pAppealsOnly=|archive-date=8 June 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] of [[Fernhill, West Sussex|Fernhill]] is {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}} east of Gatwick Airport<ref name="Argus-Fernhill-p12">{{cite news|last1=Bird|first1=Philip|last2=Moore|first2=Joe|last3=Mulcock|first3=John|title=How horror came from the sky at 2.35&nbsp;am|date=6 January 1969|number=Special Extra Edition|work=[[The Argus (Brighton)|Evening Argus]] (incorporating Sussex Daily News)|location=Brighton|page=12}}</ref> and the same distance south of [[Horley]].<ref name="SurreyCon">{{cite web|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt3/pt3GatwickCrash69.html |title=Surrey Constabulary – Part 3: Policing Change 1951–1975. Airliner crashes on approach to Gatwick Airport 1969 |year=2013 |publisher=[[Open University]] and Robert Bartlett |work=The Open University International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031071355/http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt3/pt3GatwickCrash69.html |archive-date=31 October 2014 |url-status=live  }}</ref> It has been wholly within the [[borough]] since 1990, when the [[borough]] and county boundary was moved eastwards to align exactly with the [[M23 motorway|M23]] motorway.<ref name="LGBCE-Rpt589-Para23+66">{{cite report|url=http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__documents/lgbce/research/lgbce-reports-1973---1992/mandatory-reviews/589-county-of-west-sussex-and-its-boundary-with-surrey.pdf |title=Review of non-Metropolitan counties: County of West Sussex and its Boundary with Surrey |pages=§§. 23, 66 |no-pp=y |work=LGBCE Report No. 589 |publisher=[[Local Government Boundary Commission for England]] |date=26 April 1990 |access-date=16 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017021732/http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__documents/lgbce/research/lgbce-reports-1973---1992/mandatory-reviews/589-county-of-west-sussex-and-its-boundary-with-surrey.pdf |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Until then, its houses and farms straddled the boundary.<ref name="LGBCE-Rpt589-Map10">{{cite report|url=http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__documents/lgbce/research/lgbce-reports-1973---1992/mandatory-reviews/589-county-of-west-sussex-and-its-boundary-with-surrey.pdf |title=Review of non-Metropolitan counties: County of West Sussex and its Boundary with Surrey |pages=Map 10 |no-pp=y |work=LGBCE Report No. 589 |publisher=[[Local Government Boundary Commission for England]] |date=26 April 1990 |access-date=19 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017021732/http://www.lgbce.org.uk/__documents/lgbce/research/lgbce-reports-1973---1992/mandatory-reviews/589-county-of-west-sussex-and-its-boundary-with-surrey.pdf |archive-date=17 October 2013 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> [[Fernhill, West Sussex|Fernhill]] was the site of a fatal aeroplane crash in 1969: 50 people (including two residents) died when [[Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701]] crashed into a house on [[Fernhill Road]].<ref name="Ariana">{{cite report |last=Kelly |first=G.M. |title=Civil Aircraft Accident Report No. EW/C/303: Report on the Accident to Boeing 727-112C YA-FAR 1.5 miles east of London (Gatwick) Airport on 5th January 1969 |url=http://www.gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk/YA-FAR.asp |publisher=[[Office of Public Sector Information|Her Majesty's Stationery Office]] |date=7 January 1969 |access-date=26 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120907045653/http://www.gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk/YA-FAR.asp |archive-date=7 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

{{Geographic location
|title = '''Neighbouring areas'''
|Northwest = [[Dorking]]
|North = [[Horley]], [[Reigate]], [[Redhill, Surrey|Redhill]]
|Northeast = [[Copthorne, West Sussex|Copthorne]]
|West = [[Horsham]]
|Centre = Crawley
|East = [[Crawley Down]], [[East Grinstead]]
|Southwest = [[St Leonards Forest]]
|South = [[Haywards Heath]], [[Burgess Hill]]
|Southeast = [[Balcombe]]
}}