Community Assembly of Burgess Hill

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The Community Assembly of Burgess Hill is located in a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England. It sits close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, 39 miles south of London. It is the fourth most populous parish in the county and the most populous in the Mid Sussex District. Burgess Hill is just on the West Sussex side of the border dividing the two counties, although parts of the World's End district are across the county boundary in the Lewes district of East Sussex.

The London to Brighton Way was built connecting London to the South coast and passing through what is now Burgess Hill. Although it has a Roman road, there is no evidence that the Romans settled there.

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 there, and many buildings dating from this era still stand.