Pease Pottage

Pease Pottage (English about: Pea soup ) is a small village in the district of Mid Sussex, West Sussex, England. It is located south of the town of Crawley in the community Slaugham near the junction of the motorway 23 23 in the A

History

Pease Pottage owes its existence primarily to the rain of goods and people in the region. Archaeological finds indicate that already in the Bronze Age, a trade route from Horsham towards the Ashdown Forest's lead while touched areas of today's Pease Pottage. An appreciable upturn took Pease Pottage but only through the completion of a major traffic route between London and Brighton in 1770. Significantly increased the flow of traffic through the region led to a population increase in Pease Pottage and the revival of the local economy. With the expansion of other roads, including the rail link London - Brighton, the development of the town but a short time stagnated again it. Only with the opening of the Motorway 3 in 1975 and the establishment of a tank and Rastanlage the town developed further.

Infrastructure

Pease pottages infrastructure is dominated by the main thoroughfares M 23, A 23 and A 264. In addition, located about 800 meters west of the town at around 140 meters above sea level, a radar station of the London air traffic control.

Media presence

Pease Pottage was the subject of the film Genevieve in 1953.