What Pease Pottage Does Not Have
Well, there is quite a long list, but here are some of the things you won’t find in Pease Pottage :
A Doctors’ or Dentists’ Surgery
The nearest GP surgery is in Handcross, and there are many others in Crawley. The nearest dentists are in Crawley.
The nearest accident and emergency location is at Crawley Hospital, about 4 miles to the north.
A Church
There used to be two churches in Pease Pottage at different times:
- The earliest, with corrugated iron walls and a felt roof, was situated close to the Grapes, on the site now occupied by The Pure Oyster Company. Barry Ray’s Slaugham Archives website includes a couple of good photographs of the church: one including the Grapes, and one by itself, both dating from 1905.
- The old church was replaced some time in the 1960s by the Church of the Ascension, opposite the Black Swan. Here’s a photograph of the church, taken in around 1990. The church failed to prosper, and was sold and converted to commercial premises.
The nearest churches to Pease Pottage are:
- Church of England: All Saints in Handcross, St. Mark’s in Staplefield, and St. Mary’s parish church in Slaugham
- Roman Catholic: Our Lady of Fatima in Staplefield
- Baptist: Zoar Strict Baptist chapel in Handcross
Crawley contains a number of churches of various denominations, as well as mosques and other religious buildings. See http://crawley.cyng.org.uk/CR-Religion.html for details.
A Village Shop
The Woodgate Community Shop was built on the Woodgate estate, but at the time of writing it awaits adequate funding, and is empty.
There is currently one proper shop in the village, but it only sells flowers (update: it closed in November 2024). The Moto service station sells newspapers and a limited range of foodstuffs.
A Hairdresser
The nearest hairdressers and barbers are:
- Bellamie Hair Salon (formerly known as Goldilocks) in Handcross
- Blades in Broadfield, Crawley
Update: As of March 2012, there is a barber in Pease Pottage.
Other Things You Won’t Find in Pease Pottage
Pease Pottage also lacks:
- a conference centre
- an abbatoir
- an ice-skating rink
- a museum dedicated to the history of garden furniture