Handcross is a village in the

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District of

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, England. It lies on the

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south of

Crawley Crawley () is a large town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Crawley covers an area of and had a population of 106,597 at the time of th ...

. At the 2011 Census the population fell within the

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Slaugham Slaugham () is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. It is located to the south of Crawley, on the A23 road to Brighton. The civil parish covers an area of . At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,226 ...

Nymans Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The garden was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was bro ...

Garden, of parklands run by the

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, is located adjacent to the High Street, as are of woodland and water gardens at High Beeches Garden. Handcross has one public house, The Red Lion (High Street), which was refurbished in 2010 in contemporary style. It formerly had three, the other two being The Fountain (demolished in 2012 and replaced by housing) and The Royal Oak (closed in 2020). Handcross also has a Social club. Handcross Primary School, situated at the northern end of the village recently underwent extensive building works to increase capacity. Opposite the primary school is

Handcross Park School Handcross Park School is an independent school (UK), independent coeducation, co-educational Preparatory school (UK), preparatory school in Handcross, between Crawley, Horsham and Haywards Heath in West Sussex, England. The school provides priva ...

, an independent prep school.

Handcross Hill

Handcross Hill is a stretch of the

which runs past the village. This part of dual carriageway is notorious for accidents due to its being on a steep gradient, being surrounded by trees and containing a number of sharp bends, those being unsuitable for a road of its type. The hill has proved to be dangerous enough to be widened and straightened by the

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and the cutting of the surrounding trees began overnight in mid-2011. The project was completed in late 2014.A23 Handcross to Warninglid http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid Sharp Righthand bend on Handcross Hill (A23 Southbound) - geograph

Sharp Righthand bend on Handcross Hill (A23 Southbound) - geograph

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