About Pease Pottage
Pease Pottage (sometimes spelt ‘Peas Pottage’) is a small village just south of Crawley in West Sussex.
It stands at the point where the M23 joins the A23, about halfway between London and Brighton, and is just a couple of miles from Nymans Garden, the spectacular National Trust property in Handcross.
Many thousands of people pass through Pease Pottage every day, most of them using the village as a short cut between the motorway and Horsham.
Stop Press: Charity Collections
Pease Pottage is frequently targetted by dubious charity collectors, such as the Little Treasures Children’s Trust.
If you are unsure whether to donate to an unfamiliar organisation, Mid Sussex District Council’s licensing team can advise on the legality of particular charity collectors.
Quote
“ … CRAWLEY … go two miles along the road … to Brighton; then you turn to the right [at Pease Pottage] and go over six of the worst miles in England … in short, it is a most villanous track.”
— William Cobbett, Rural Rides
Features
Pease Pottage contains, amongst other things:
- two pubs one pub (now that the Grapes is closed);
- a motorway service station;
- a large car scrap yard;
- a 36–hole golf club;
- a car boot sale in the summer;
- and a very short cycle lane.
There are plenty of things Pease Pottage doesn’t have.
Miscellaneous Facts
- Pease Pottage is just under 500 feet above sea level.
- The annual London to Brighton veteran car run passes through the village on the first Sunday in November.
- During the First World War, there was an army camp in Pease Pottage.
- Queen Victoria came through the village in 1837 on her way to Brighton.