About Crowborough

Crowborough is the largest inland town in East Sussex, set in the High Weald, an area of outstanding natural beauty and bordering the Ashdown Forest. The town sits midway between Tunbridge Wells in Kent and Uckfield, East Sussex, with easy access to the coast and London.

Crowborough is well served with excellent supermarket shopping as well as numerous small independent shops, restaurants and cafes. There are three doctor’s surgeries within the town and a small hospital for minor accidents and longer-term recuperation.

By way of interest, the town’s most famous resident, who lived at Windlesham Manor, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.

For those more active, there is a leisure centre including a gym and large indoor swimming pool together with a sports hall and the facilities for a number of outdoor sports. Also within the town there are two golf courses as well as a thriving tennis club.

Culturally, there is a well-established arts club, a community centre, many societies ranging from rambling to Christmas fairs, an annual bonfire night and a street carnival held in early September.

There are a wealth of churches in the town as well as others within close proximity:

• All Saints Church on Chapel Green, Church Road, Crowborough TN6 1ED
• St John the Evangelist, St John’s Road, Crowborough TN6 1RZ
• St Richard’s Church, Fermor Road, Crowborough TN6 3AP
• St Michael and All Angels, Rotherfield Road, Jarvis Brook, Crowborough TN6 3DY
• Holy Trinity Church, Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood, Uckfield TN22 4AD
• St Michael and All Angels, Withyham TN7 4BA
• St Denys’ Church, Church Road, Rotherfield TN6 3LU
• Forest Fold Baptist Chapel, London Road, Crowborough TN6 1TD
• Jarvis Brook Baptist Chapel, Walshes Road, Crowborough TN6 3RE
• Community Church, The Oasis, Beacon Road, Crowborough TN6 1AS
• United Church, Croft Road, Crowborough TN6 1HA
• St Mary’s Catholic Church, Queens Road, Crowborough TN6 2LB