Crawley

Crawley is a town and borough in West Sussex, England. It is 28 miles south of Charing Cross, 18 miles north of Brighton and Hove, and 32 miles north-east of the area town of Chichester. Crawley covers a territory of 17.36 square miles and had a populace of 106,597 at the season of the 2011 Census.

The region has been occupied since the Stone Age, and was a focal point of ironworking in Roman occasions. Crawley grew gradually as a market town from the thirteenth century, serving the encompassing towns in the Weald. Its area on the primary street from London to Brighton brought passing exchange, which energized the advancement of instructing hotels. A rail connect to London opened in 1841.

Gatwick Airport, these days one of Britain's busiest global airplane terminals, opened on the edge of the town in the 1940s, empowering business and mechanical development. After the Second World War, the British Government wanted to move vast quantities of individuals and occupations out of London and into new towns around South East England. The New Towns Act 1946 assigned Crawley as the site of one of these.