Haywards Heath Life is the brand new community magazine, just for Haywards Heath!

Brought to you by the people who publish numerous other popular community magazines in the Mid Sussex area: including Lindfield Life and Cuckfield Life

By David Tingley, editor and founder

Welcome to a new concept for a local magazine just for Haywards Heath! I’ve got a passion for working with communities to help bring them together and share what’s going on in the place where they live. What you see on this website is just a sample of your forthcoming new monthly magazine - Haywards Heath Life.

Haywards Heath is a great place to live; popular and well connected. Built up around the railway, there’s plenty of history here and its thriving schools make it a fantastic place, bustling with families too.

My desire with Haywards Heath Life is to try and find out what makes this place tick. Mostly, I want the magazine to engage with its readership. In order to do this, it will be all about Haywards Heath. That’s it. Just the stuff that matters right here. Haywards Heath Life will be a community magazine and I want to encourage as many local people as possible to contribute stories.

cover image showing St Wilfrid's Church, Haywards Heath — Haywards Heath Life - example cover

Issue number one of Haywards Heath Life will be published (and available to pick-up freely) in the first week of November 2025. It will also be available to grab from the numerous high street shops.

We have published a list of the copy dates for the year here, but the deadline for the first issue will be Thursday 16th October 2025.

As well as advertisers, I would like to encourage anyone to contribute and share information on a one-off and regular basis. This will be the lifeblood of the magazine. Be it news stories, cover photos or suggestions or whole articles, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch with us by calling 01444 715 345 or send an email to: editor@haywardsheath.life.

First issue copy date:
16th October 2025
First issue published
from 1st November

All copy dates

Drone photo showing Queen's Road and Sydney Road, Haywards heath

Haywards Heath (/ˈheɪwərdz ˈhiːθ/ ^ⓘ HAY-wərdz HEETH) is a town in West Sussex, England, 36 miles (58 km) south of London, 14 miles (23 km) north of Brighton, 13 miles (21 km) south of Gatwick Airport and 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the county town, Chichester. Nearby towns include Burgess Hill to the southwest, Horsham to the northwest, Crawley northwest and East Grinstead northeast. With a decently small number of jobs available in the immediate vicinity, mostly in the agricultural or service sector, residents work remotely or commute daily via road or rail to London, Brighton, Crawley or Gatwick Airport.^[3]

The first element of the place-name Haywards Heath is derived from the Old English hege + worð, meaning hedge enclosure, with the later addition of hǣð. The place-name was first recorded in 1261 as Heyworth, then in 1359 as Hayworthe, in 1544 as Haywards Hoth (i.e. 'heath by the enclosure with a hedge'), and in 1607 as Hayworths Hethe.^[4]^[5]

Wikipedia entry for Haywards Heath

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