Whitemans Green
| Whiteman's Green | |
| Sussex | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ303257 |
| Location: | 51°-0’60"N, 0°8’37"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | RH17 |
| Dialling code: | 01444 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Mid Sussex |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mid Sussex |
Whiteman's Green is a village which has become a northern end of the large village of Cuckfield in Sussex. It is located on the southern slopes of the Weald, two miles west of Haywards Heath.
The area was designated a conservation area in 1989. There are five listed buildings, the earliest of which dates back to the 15th century.
History
In 1822, Gideon Mantell made his breakthrough discovery of the fossil tooth of a species which he named 'Iguanodon': this led to the recognistion of the beasts which became known as dinosaurs. The fossil was found in a quarry at Whiteman's Green.[1]
In 1944, one of the three V-1 flying bombs to land on Britain on the first night they were used, fell at Mizbrooks Farm just to the west.[2]
Sport and recreation
- Football: Cuckfield Cosmos
- Rugby: Haywards Heath RFC
Mill Hall
Mill Hall was a school for the deaf, first opened just after the Second World War. It closed in the 1990s with the opening of Court Meadow school in Cuckfield. It has since been developed into housing, and until recently was home to Mill Hall School Day Nursery - which closed in 2008.
References
- ↑ Dean, Dennis R. (1999). Gideon Mantell and the Discovery of Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press. p. 48. "In actuality, however, his famous Tilgate Forest consisted of two adjacent quarries at Whiteman's Green just north of Cuckfield."
- ↑ Cuckfield Town