Henfield is a big town as well as civil parish in the Horsham Area of West Sussex, England. It lies 33 miles (53 km) south of London, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Brighton, and 30 miles (48 km) eastern northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road joint of the A281 and also A2037. The parish has a land area of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 people resided in 2,153 homes, of whom 2,361 were economically active. Other close-by communities consist of Burgess Hill to the east and also Shoreham-by-Sea to the south. The population at the 2011 Census was 5,349. Just west of the community, the two branches of the River Adur, the western Adur and the eastern Adur, fulfill at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on right into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was currently a large village, of 52 households, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).