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Broadbridge Heath is a village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It is about two miles (3 km) west from the historic centre of Horsham and is a suburb of Horsham. The population of Broadbridge Heath has increased considerably in the first two decades of the twenty-first century because of large scale housing development. It lies to the east side of the A24 road. ==History== The village began life as a scattered group of houses around an unenclosed common before the 19th century, and by 1844 there were about twelve houses and an inn. There was an amount of quarrying for Horsham Stone and in 2014 one working quarry exists to south west of the centre of the suburb. In spite of the enclosure of the heath in the 1850s, there was little further development until the late 1880s when land along the main Horsham to Five Oaks Road was offered for sale and large numbers of semi-detached houses were built there over the next 13 years.〔Hudson, T. P. (editor) (1986) ''A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6''. (Part 2 Bramber Rape (North-Western Part) including Horsham.)〕 After the Second World War, the pace of development increased and new large housing estates were built to the south of the village. This tend has continued into the 2010s. The opening of the Horsham in the late 1950s, reduced traffic congestion in the village, and a supermarket and leisure centre were built on the land left vacant by the closure of an army camp (formerly the UK Bomb Disposal Unit Headquarters) on Wickhurst Lane.In 2014 Broadbridge Heath has increased considerably in size with the building of a new estate of fifteen hundred houses under the marketing name of Wickhurst Green. In 1964, a sculpture of Jesus Christ, created by Edward Bainbridge Copnall was placed on the church. In December 2008 it was removed and was put in Horsham Museum. It has since been replaced with a glass cross. In March 2014, West Sussex County Council proposed a new 'Quadrant' area south of the village, that would include a new leisure centre and other recreational services to serve Horsham but to be built in Broadbridge Heath.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Broadbridge Heath」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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