welcome to henfield

Henfield is a large village in West Sussex, almost equidistant between Brighton and Horsham on the A281. These pages contain over 1,800 photographs of the village from the Victorian period to the present day - all with accompanying information. The colour photos are the product of my own cameras of varying types and makes - from compact to DSLR - over many years.
Malthouse Cottage in the 1920s - click to enlarge
The black and white photographs come from my own archive and those of Alan Barwick, both in his role as Curator of the Henfield Museum and as a private individual. I've also included historical data from Census and Directory documents. There's a hi-res section of watercolours by the children of the Wade family who lived at Croft House around 1900.
Why not take a look at the Henfield Camera Club's exhibition in St. Peter's Church: "Henfield At Work - Then And Now". The exhibition compares people working in Henfield from years ago and today, and runs from 9th to 31st January 2019.
Check out the Henfield Festival 2019 website - part of the Horsham District Year of Culture!
NEW - Dr. Annabelle Hughes a Horsham expert on timber-framed houses has kindly provided me with a number of photos of Henfield houses. These are marked [AB].
NEW - Take a look at the Time Travel pages: comparisons of black & white village scenes taken in 2018 with their black & white counterparts from earlier years
You are welcome to download any of the colour photographs on this website for non-commercial use, other than the Wade watercolours, which are the property of Henfield Parish Council. If you would like higher definition images for personal or commercial purposes, please contact me. I can supply print quality JPG or PDF images at 240dpi for the later photos from the 6,000+ in my collection.
My 2017 paperback book of photographs: "Here And There In Henfield: Rambles with a camera in and around a West Sussex village" is available to purchase at £10.00.

 Copies are on sale in the Henfield Museum - which is in the front left of the Village Hall in Coopers Way - and in Village Care in the High Street.

For further details of the book, click here.