windmill hill - windmill lane & sandy lane
Windmill Hill is an area bounded by Windmill Lane on the east and south, and Sandy Lane on the north - with an unnamed road on the west joining Windmill Lane and Sandy Lane. It gets its name from the Nep Town windmill - a post mill - which stood just to the west of the northern end of Windmill Lane. There have been many changes to this area of Henfield over the years, as the two-part map below shows. The map on the left is a modern 1:5000 map of the Windmill Hill area - and its 1900 equivalent is on the right. The changes include:
1. The Horsham & Shoreham railway line was closed around 1964 and is now a footpath/cycle way called the Downs Link.
2. The sandpit was located to the south of Sandy Lane, with a tramway which transported the dug sand from the pit to the railway line. The chicken farm on the site of the sandpit closed when the railway was axed.
3. The windmill, shown next to the triangulation point on windmill Hill, blew down in 1908.
4. The nurseries in between Springlands Cottages and Springlands have gone.
5. The house called Pinelands has sprung up since 1900.
6. Down View Villa is now Victoria House.
1. The Horsham & Shoreham railway line was closed around 1964 and is now a footpath/cycle way called the Downs Link.
2. The sandpit was located to the south of Sandy Lane, with a tramway which transported the dug sand from the pit to the railway line. The chicken farm on the site of the sandpit closed when the railway was axed.
3. The windmill, shown next to the triangulation point on windmill Hill, blew down in 1908.
4. The nurseries in between Springlands Cottages and Springlands have gone.
5. The house called Pinelands has sprung up since 1900.
6. Down View Villa is now Victoria House.
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Downs from Windmill Lane: Another view of the South Downs from halfway down Windmill Lane. The ancient farmhouse of Dunstalls - covered in tarpaulin for renovations - can be seen in the distance on the right of the picture.
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Windmill Lane: At the junction of Nep Town Road with Dropping Holms, two lanes run downhill to the brooks, eventually joining up at the bottom to form a rectangular route. One of the lanes is Sandy Lane, and the other is Windmill Lane - shown here in the photo running down southwards towards Dunstalls and the junction with Sandy Lane.
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Windmill Lane: A view looking northward up the lane towards Mill End from early January 2019.
Footpath to Dunstalls: The footpath which runs parallel with Windmill Lane, down to Dunstalls, is on the right of this photo from early January 2019.
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Windmill Lane: A view looking down the lane from mid-April 2019 - full of spring greenery.
Downs from Windmill Lane: Another view of the South Downs from halfway down Windmill Lane. The ancient farmhouse of Dunstalls - covered in tarpaulin for renovations - can be seen in the distance on the right of the picture.
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Windmill Lane: At the junction of Nep Town Road with Dropping Holms, two lanes run downhill to the brooks, eventually joining up at the bottom to form a rectangular route. One of the lanes is Sandy Lane, and the other is Windmill Lane - shown here in the photo running down southwards towards Dunstalls and the junction with Sandy Lane.
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Windmill Lane: A view looking northward up the lane towards Mill End from early January 2019.
Footpath to Dunstalls: The footpath which runs parallel with Windmill Lane, down to Dunstalls, is on the right of this photo from early January 2019.
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Windmill Lane: A view looking down the lane from mid-April 2019 - full of spring greenery.
