World's End is a neighbourhood located in Burgess Hill,

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ...

. It is thought that the name arrived with the railway – it was here that the 'up' line met the 'down' line during construction of the

Brighton Main Line The Brighton Main Line (also known as the South Central Main Line) is a major railway line in the United Kingdom that links Brighton, on the south coast of England, with central London. In London the line has two branches, out of and station ...

in what is now the World's End area.

Present day

Currently the area includes its own train station,

Wivelsfield railway station Wivelsfield railway station is a railway station on the Brighton Main Line in West Sussex, England. Located in northern Burgess Hill, it primarily serves the town's neighbourhoods of World's End and Sheddingdean. The station is down the line ...

, one of the two stations in Burgess Hill. World's End has a primary school (Manor Field) and a recreation ground. World's End is sometimes known incorrectly as Wivelsfield, the confusion being caused by the name of the station. Wivelsfield is in fact a separate village a few miles to the east of World's End.

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