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A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath (opened 25th July, 1859), by C. Lockhart Robinson, Medical Superintendent of the Asylum, published 1859 (38 pp.)   View Online

Hayward's Heath, by Mark Antony Lower, M.A., published 1870 in A Compendious History of Sussex, Topographical, Archaeological & Anecdotal (vol. I, p.225, Lewes: George P. Bacon) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8946][Lib 3314] & The Keep [LIB/500159]   View Online

Haywards Heath, by Warden Sergison, published 1886 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 34, notes & queries, pp.260-261) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2119] & The Keep [LIB/500252] & S.A.S. library   View Online

A Leaflet of Facts and Figures concerning the Sussex County Asylum, by C. E. Saunders, published 1890 (16 pp., Haywards Heath: Mid Sussex Times Office) accessible at: British Library

Borde Hill, the seat of Mr Stephenson Clarke, by Country Life contributor(s), published 27 December 1902 in Country Life (vol. 12, article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9147]

Fifty years of church work in the parish of S. Wilfrid, Haywards Heath, 1856-1906, by T. G. Wyatt, published 1906 (12 pp., Haywards Heath: Charles Clarke) accessible at: British Library

Souvenir Guide and History of Haywards Heath and District, by M[apey] A W, published 1911 (booklet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9919]

Haywards Heath Congregational Church Fifty Years Work: A Retrospect, by W. Yeandle, published 1912 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13119]

Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath, by Rev. J. P. Bacon-Phillips, published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 7, article, pp.565-566) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Yew Trees of Haywards Heath, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1930 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. IV no. 8, article, pp.703-705) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2308][Lib 2309] & The Keep [LIB/500173]

Vale Bridge, Haywards Heath, by E. T. Greenyer, published May 1930 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. III no. 2, query, p.60) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8952][Lib 8221] & The Keep [LIB/500205] & S.A.S. library

Elfinsward, by Gertrude Vine, published 1933 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. VII no. 11, article, pp.710-712) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2312] & The Keep [LIB/500176]

Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. An introduction to two charming Sussex towns, published 1936 (19 pp., Gloucester: British Publishing Co.) accessible at: British Library

Official Guide to Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, Lindfield, published 1953 (booklet, Haywards Heath Chamber of Commerce) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14705]

The Community of the Holy Cross, Haywards Heath, 1857-1957, by Alan Russell, published 1957 (Holy Cross Convent) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9678] & West Sussex Libraries

Battens, Highbrook, by R. T. Mason, published May 1961 in Sussex Notes & Queries (vol. XV no. 7, note, pp.245-247) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8233] & The Keep [LIB/500217] & S.A.S. library

Official Guide to Haywards Heath, Cuckfield and Lindfield, published 1963 (booklet, U. D. C. Cuckfield) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8508]

Official Guide to Haywards Heath, Cuckfield, Lindfield, published 1965 (booklet, Haywards Heath Chamber of Commerce) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14706]

Geology of the Haywards Heath district, by E. R. Michaels, published 1968 in The Proceedings of the Geologists' Association London (no. 79 issue 4, article, pp.525-548)   View Online

Detailed mapping of the Haywards Heath district has resulted in revision of previously published maps. The use of well records together with the new mapping has led to the conclusion that the clay outcropping in the valley of the Ouse north of Cuckfield, is not Weald Clay but a lenticular clay in the Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand. An unconformity at the base of the Weald Clay resulting in a westerly onlap of the Weald Clay over the Upper Tunbridge Wells Sand is described.
Facies maps for intervals in the Tunbridge Wells Sand are presented. The areal facies distribution, together with analyses of the vertical succession of facies, confirm the conclusion that the sediments of the Tunbridge Wells Sand are the deposits of a shallow lake-shore. Re-working of the sands through several stages of deposition during Wealden times is suggested.

A Picture of Mid-Sussex, by H. R. H. Harmer, published 1977 (pamphlet, 32 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-13: 9780905139043) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 6567][Lib 16989] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Reproductios of old photos of Cuckfield, Haywards Heath and Lindfield.

Muster Green Conservation Area, published 1979 (pamphlet, Mid Sussex District Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8562]

The Metropolis of Mid Sussex: A history of Haywards Heath, by Wyn K. Ford and A. C. Gabe, published June 1981 (200 pp., Haywards Heath: Charles Clarke, ISBN-10: 0950248940 & ISBN-13: 9780950248943) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7753][Lib 15138] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath: How the Railway Created a New Town, by Vida Hebison, published 1983 (article) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 8750]

Great-grandfather's Schooldays - James Coomber, by Sandra Williams, published December 1984 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 4, article, pp.145-147) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

A glimpse of life in a country school as revealed by the log books of St. Wilfrid's School, Haywards Heath.

St. Wilfrid's School, Haywards Heath, Sussex, by Sandra Williams, published June 1985 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 6 no. 6, article, pp.228-229) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9788] & The Keep [LIB/501258] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Around Haywards Heath in Old Photographs, by Judy Middleton, published September 1989 (160 pp., Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd., ISBN-10: 0862996074 & ISBN-13: 9780862996079) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502797] & West Sussex Libraries

The Story of the Hayward's Heath Building Society, 1890-1990, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1990 (Hayward's Heath Building Society) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/504754] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The First Forty Years. Early Mortgages and Mortgagors of the Haywards Heath Building Society, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1992 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 130, article, pp.213-231) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 11918] & The Keep [LIB/500289] & S.A.S. library

Haywards Heath in Old Picture Postcards, by Nickola Smith, published November 1993 (88 pp., Europese Bibliotheek, ISBN-10: 9028856900 & ISBN-13: 9789028856905) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502811] & West Sussex Libraries

The Church in Sussex Road: the story of a Methodist church in Haywards Heath, by Wyn K. Ford, published 1994 accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502790] & West Sussex Libraries

Farlington School, 1896-1996: a centenary history [Haywards Heath], by Elizabeth Garrett, published 1996 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13073] & West Sussex Libraries

Forgotten Heroes, by John Charman, published September 1996 in Sussex Family Historian (vol. 12 no. 3, article, p.92) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14879] & The Keep [LIB/508810] & CD SFH40 from S.F.H.G.

Heroes of 1900 to 1902 buried at St. Wilfrid's, Haywards Heath

The Story of Haywards Heath, by Wyn Ford and Lillian Rogers, published 1 July 1998 (120 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857701410 & ISBN-13: 9781857701418) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14888] & The Keep [LIB/503836] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath: Yesterday Remembered, by Lillian Rogers, published 10 March 1999 (124 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953501302 & ISBN-13: 9780953501304) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13918] & West Sussex Libraries

Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune: A History of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum (St. Francis Hospital) Haywards Heath, by James Gardner, published August 1999 (321 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953610101 & ISBN-13: 9780953610105) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 18269] & The Keep [LIB/502169] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath Methodist Church, Perrymount: its history and its people, published 2000 (pamphlet, Haywards Heath Methodist Church) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14157]

Haywards Heath Official Guide, published 2002 (booklet, Haywards Heath Town Council) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14898]

Haywards Heath , by Caroline Adams, Martin Hayes, Timothy J. McCann, Susan Millard and Sue Reeves, published 1 May 2003 (Local History Mini-Guide to Sources, No. 15, pamphlet, 20 pp., Chichester: West Sussex County Council, ISBN-10: 0862605229 & ISBN-13: 9780862605223) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14934][Lib 14935][Lib 14936] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

A Haywards Heath Chatterbox, by Lillian Rogers, published 2004 (117 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0953501310 & ISBN-13: 9780953501311) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502805] & West Sussex Libraries

The London-Portslade Roman road and prehistoric activity at Haywards Heath, by Neil Griffin, Richard James and Chris Butler, published 2004 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 142, shorter article, pp.139-144) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15489] & The Keep [LIB/500360] & S.A.S. library   View Online

Haywards Heath: Living Memories, by Wilfrid Jackson, published 2 December 2004 (96 pp., Frith Book Company, ISBN-10: 1859379133 & ISBN-13: 9781859379134) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath, Historic Character Assessment Report, compiled by Roland B. Harris, published September 2005 (Sussex Extensive Urban Survey (EUS), 32 pp. + appendices, E.S.C.C., W.S.C.C. & Brighton and Hove City, funded by English Heritage) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries   Download PDF

Southern Main Lines: Haywards Heath to Seaford, by Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith, published 19 November 2005 (96 pp., Midhurst: Middleton Press, ISBN-10: 0906520282 & ISBN-13: 9780906520284) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/506439] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

The History of Windermere Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, by David Telling, published 2006 (pamphlet, published by the author) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15733] & West Sussex Libraries

Hayworthe and Trobewyk, An Assessment of the History of the Manor of Hayworth and Trubwick in Haywards Heath, by Heather Warne, published 2009 (published by the author) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

A rosy outlook: Borde Hill, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, by Steven Desmond, published 16 May 2012 in Country Life (vol. 206 no. 20, article, pp.94-98)

Haywards Heath Through Time, by Colin Manton, published 2 May 2013 (96 pp., Stroud: Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1445609029 & ISBN-13: 9781445609027) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

Haywards Heath is a remarkable place with an intriguing history. Misguidedly characterised as 'large and quite amorphous', detailed inspection actually reveals a dynamic settlement that spread like a patchwork quilt in a distinctive pattern of development. It was indisputably the railway, a Victorian marvel cut through bare heathland in 1841 and bringing with it the county asylum and one of the country's largest cattle markets, which was the making of Haywards Heath. There is far more to the district than that, however. The town's standing buildings and the local place names hint in places at much earlier history: a deadly battle of the Civil War in 1642, two thriving medieval manors, and even travellers and traders on a Roman road. This collection of evocative old and new images vividly illustrates these events as well as the intricacies of generations of everyday life in Haywards Heath.

My Asylum: St Francis Psychiatric Hospital, Haywards Heath, 1959-1995, a history and personal memoir, by Joe Hughes, published 24 July 2015 (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN-10: 1505371317 & ISBN-13: 9781505371314) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The Hayworth: a lowland Vaccary site in South-East England, by Andrew Margetts, published 2017 in Medieval Archaeology (vol. 61, article, pp.117-148)

Remains of an 11th?13th-century farmstead were found in excavations in 'The Hayworth', an early enclosure on the 'lost' manor of Trubwick, West Sussex

A Short Tour of St Wilfrid's, published (no date) (pamphlet, St Wilfrid's Church) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14891]

Haywards Heath Parish Register, published (no date) by the Sussex Family History Group and Parish Register Transcription Society (Ref: SXW125, CD-ROM)

Baptisms, Marriages, Banns and Burials 1866 -1900. Indexed Transcription. Vol.125.