Haywards Heath - SCRASE VALLEY NATURE RESERVE


This stretch of land between Haywards Heath and Lindfield has been preserved as wet land and is ideal for nature walks, bird watching and for local schools field trips. This area of open space will be kept as a green boundary between the town and village.

Overlooking the top end of the green is one of the Town's oldest buildings, the listed Dolphin Public House, recently re-named on refurbishment from The Sergison Arms, by which name people have known it for some 130 years. Prior to this it was known as The Dolphin for some 13 years. It was built in the 16th Century and was originally known as "Vinals". It was the Sergisons, through marriage to the Warden family, who owned most of the land, which makes up the Haywards Heath of today. Opposite the Dolphin, is the modern Magistrates Court and the Sussex Police Weald Division building and Police Station opened in 1992.