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About Burgess Hill
A Roman road was built connecting
London to the South coast and passing through what
is now Burgess Hill, there is no evidence that they
settled. Burgess Hill originated in the parishes of
Clayton, Keymer and Ditchling - all of them mentioned
in the Domesday Book. The town's name comes from the
Burgeys family when the name John Burgeys appeared
in the tax rolls. The name of Burgeys stood for 'bourgeois',
the inhabitant of a borough. By the Elizabethan period
a community had established itself and many buildings
dating from this era still stand. Until the nineteenth
century much of what is now the town centre was common
land used by the tenants of the manors of Clayton
and Keymer for grazing and as a source of fuel. From
the fourteenth century or earlier the annual Midsummer
Fair was held on this common land on the 24th June:
the feast of the birth of St John the Baptist. The
last such sheep and lamb fair was held in 1913. By
the early seventeenth century small scale brick and
tile manufacture was flourishing and during the interegnum
parcels of common land were allocated for house building
and small businesses. By the early eighteenth century
brick making had been extended and four shops and
one or two alehouses established on the common. Craftsmen
such as smiths, shoemakers and weavers also worked
there. Brickmaking by hand still operates with the
Keymer Brick and Tile company (Now Keymer Tiles) -
whose tiles can be found in buildings such as St James
Church, Piccadilly and Manchester's Central Station.
Sudden interest in Brighton in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries brought an influx of
professional people looking for building land. In
1770 the road from Cuckfield to Brighton across St
John's Common was turnpiked. With accessibility, the
common was ripe for development with the result that
the Keymer and Clayton portion were enclosed in 1828
and 1855 respectively. The opening of the London to
Brighton railway in 1841 triggered a rapid expansion,
although Burgess Hill was for many years a request
stop and not a regular station. Between 1850 and 1880
the area changed from an insignificant rural settlement
to a town of 4,500 residents.
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