Henfield is a large town and also civil church in the Horsham Area of West Sussex, England. It exists 33 miles (53 km) south of London, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Brighton, and 30 miles (48 kilometres) eastern northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road joint of the A281 as well as A2037. The church has a land area of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 individuals resided in 2,153 households, of whom 2,361 were financially active. Other neighboring towns 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 as well as the eastern Adur, fulfill at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was already a big village, of 52 houses, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).