Henfield is a big town and also civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It exists 33 miles (53 kilometres) south of London, 12 miles (19 kilometres) northwest of Brighton, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and A2037. The church has a land area of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 individuals lived in 2,153 homes, of whom 2,361 were financially active. Various other close-by towns consist of Burgess Hill to the eastern as well as Shoreham-by-Sea to the south. The population at the 2011 Census was 5,349. Simply west of the town, both branches of the River Adur, the western Adur as well as the eastern Adur, meet at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was already a large town, of 52 households, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).