10 reasons to move to Crawley

Above: The George Inn

Above: Crawley

Above: Crawley

Above: Worth conservation area

THIS north Sussex town has a long and varied history with remains showing that the original residents were, in fact, Stone Age settlers.

Indeed, the Saxons first named the settlement Craw Leah (meaning crow-infested clearing) and the parishes of Ifield and Worth were both mentioned in the Domesday Book. In the 50s and 60s, development in Crawley totally mushroomed when the town was named as one of eight “new towns” to be built in order to move people and industry out of overcrowded and bomb-damaged London into the countryside. Crawley has grown beyond all recognition and, these days, it has a population of more than 100,000.

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1. The town boasts a vibrant economy with low rates of unemployment. Simon Bellm of DMH Stallard solicitors, said that 200 staff now work out of one of their offices based in Crawley’s High Street, as opposed to just five people in the mid-1990s. “Crawley is a town which is going forward and not stagnating. It’s a positive ‘can do’ place,” he explains... 

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