Tilgate Park

Tilgate Park is an extensive park arranged in Tilgate, South-East Crawley. It is the biggest and most well known stop in the zone. In spite of the fact that it is for the most part connected with the region encompassing Tilgate Lake, an expansive zone of the recreation center is likewise silvicultural backwoods, there is additionally a Local Nature Reserve called Tilgate Nature Center for ensured and imperiled species. Initially, 2,185-section of land some portion of the Worth Forest, the recreation center and the encompassing zones were a piece of the bigger Tilgate bequest, first recorded in 1647. From that time, enterprises including Ironworks and heaters were disassembled and supplanted by a landed working domain.
The estate of Tilgate was purchased by Sir Edward Culpeper and Sir Walter Covert, who possessed the house of close-by Slaugham, from Edward Nevill, 8^th Baron Bergavenny in 1566. The villa, known as Tilgate Mansion, was most likely worked by 1647. The house go with that of Slaugham down the Covert family line, before going to another family, the Sergisons, in 1702. After a progression of proprietors in the mid 19^th century, it was obtained in 1862 by a well off agent from India, George Ashburner.