| Southgate | |
|---|---|
 The 1950s shopping parade at Wakehurst Drive, Southgate East | |
  Southgate Location within West Sussex | |
| Population | 8,106 |
| OS grid reference | TQ265365 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CRAWLEY |
| Postcode district | RH10, RH11 |
| Dialling code | 01293 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
Southgate is one of the 14 residential neighbourhoods in Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Crawley was planned and laid out as a New Town after the Second World War, based on the principle of self-contained neighbourhoods surrounding a town centre of civic and commercial buildings. Southgate was one of the four in the "inner ring" closest to the town centre, and was intended to be the largest of the nine designed in the original master plan.[1] It was built in two stages between the 1950s and the 1970s, but retains some older buildings from before the New Town era and has "significant areas of pre-New Town character".[2]
The area was settled by pre-Roman people, and industrial and other artefacts from that era were found during construction of the neighbourhood. In the 19th century, after Crawley was connected to the national railway network, housing developed south of the line around the Brighton Road, which divides the modern neighbourhood in two. New Town-era expansion produced a large residential area with a high proportion of terraced houses and a range of schools, places of worship and community facilities; but some historic buildings and areas of open space remain, including an award-winning park. The population at the time of the United Kingdom Census 2011 was 8,533.[3]
- ^ Hudson, T. P., ed. (1987). "A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 Part 3 – Bramber Rape (North-Eastern Part) including Crawley New Town. Crawley New Town: Growth of the New Town". Victoria County History of Sussex. British History Online. pp. 75–81. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
- ^ "Crawley Baseline Character Assessment" (PDF). EDAW/AECOM. May 2009. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Services, Good Stuff IT. "Southgate - UK Census Data 2011". UK Census Data. Retrieved 26 May 2018.