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Mid Sussex as an area provides a superb natural environment from the beautiful South Downs to its northern border. The District has breath taking green open spaces and views along with picturesque villages rich in history.

In addition to these natural assets there are well-tended relaxing parks, excellent sports pitches and fun and exciting Olympos centres that provide an incredible leisure and entertainment experience for residents and visitors alike.

Mid Sussex is a local government district in South East England - part of the county of West Sussex . It contains the towns of East Grinstead , Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill .

The district was created on April 1 , 1974 , and replaced the urban districts of Cuckfield ,Burgess Hill , and East Grinstead and nearly all of Rural District . These districts had previously been under East Sussex .

Civil parishes

Within the District are the following civil parishes:

• Albourne
• Ardingly
• Ashurst Wood
• Balcombe
• Bolney
• Burgess Hill
• Cuckfield
• Cuckfield Rural
• East Grinstead
• Fulking
• Hassocks
• Haywards Heath
• Horsted Keynes
• Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common
• Lindfield
• Lindfield Rural
• Newtimber
• Poynings
• Pyecombe
• Slaugham
• Turners Hill
• Twineham
• West Hoathly
• Worth

Local politics

Mid Sussex is a Conservative constituency, with the current Member of Parliament (MP) Nicholas Soames, the grandson of Winston Churchill. In the 2005 general election, the Conservatives represented by Soames won 48.0% of the popular vote, a 1.8% increase, the Liberal Democrats represented by Serena Tierney took 36.1% of votes, a 5.0% increase, the Labour Party with Robert Fromant managed 12.7% of the vote, a 6.1% decrease, and the United Kingdom Independence Party candidate Harold Piggott received 3.2%, a 0.7% increase. The turnout for Mid Sussex was 49 494 people, accounting for 68.6% of the population of Mid Sussex eligible to vote. This was a 3.7% increase.