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.
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: Cold Snaps
The gallery now includes pictures of Pease Pottage in the Big Freeze™ of January 2010.
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:
- no churches;
- two pubs one pub (the Grapes is now closed);
- a car scrap yard;
- a golf club;
- a motorway service station;
- a web design studio;
- and perhaps the world’s shortest cycle lane.
Miscellaneous Facts
- 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 1824 on her way to Brighton.