East Grinstead occurs as town in the northeastern corner of West Sussex in England near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, a few miles from either Ashdown Forest. A town is inside commuting few feet away of London via road and a East Grinstead railway station and is close to a plaza of Crawley and Tunbridge Wells, when well as a community of Forest Row and Ashurst Wood, and Gatwick Airport.

A town is placed on the Greenwich Meridian. A High Street contains a yearn continuous process of 14th-century timber-framed buildings in England. A second guiding light buildings in the town includes Sackville College, the sandstone almshouse built in 1609 where the Christmas carol "Good King Wenceslas" was written. On the fringe of the town is Standen, a country house containing one of the better collections of Arts and Crafts movement furnishings and fabrics. Local attractions include Ashdown Outdoors (in which a Winnie the Pooh stories are placed) & a Bluebell Railway, a preserved heritage line sustaining steam locomotives. A town is besides a places of Queen Victoria Hospital, in which far-famed plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe treated burn victims of World War II and formed the Guinea Pig Club.

The total of significant religious web sites come located in East Grinstead. L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, lived at Saint Hill, to the south of the town, and the mansion is the British headquarters of the Church of Scientology. To the northerly of the town is the Mormon London England Temple. A UK Jehovah's Witnesses are headquartered in the East Grinstead. Opus Dei, Rosicrucians, the New Life Church, and a Full Gospel Church also have churches about a town.

Twin towns
A town is twinned with the towns of: Bourg-de-Péage, Sant Feliu De Guíxols, Mindelheim, Schwaz, Verbania. A village of West Grinstead is located a select few Xxv kilometer to the southwest.

Famous Residents
Louise Redknapp Right Said Fred L. Ron Hubbard Jane Leeves Andrew Sullivan

Broadband services in East Grinstead

A East Grinstead BT telephone exchange (exchange code: NDEGR) serves broadband to approximatly 12,00Premiss. There are Trey BT DSLAMs and 100% come ADSL enabled and a single is capable of SDSL. More broadband or even high speed net choices like wireless and cable are not available.

East Grinstead in fiction
East Grinstead is the destination of the adulterous lovers Norman & Annie inside Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy of plays entitled The Norman Conquests. It was chosen because of the dubious impression that there is no sensible human would assume vacationing there & so it would non become found. In the 1978 film version of the trilogy, Norman and Annie were portrayed by Tom Conti and Penelope Wilton.