Henfield is a huge village and civil church in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies 33 miles (53 km) south of London, 12 miles (19 kilometres) northwest of Brighton, as well as 30 miles (48 km) east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road joint of the A281 and A2037. The parish has a land area of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 people stayed in 2,153 houses, of whom 2,361 were economically energetic. Various other close-by communities include Burgess Hill to the east and 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 and also the eastern Adur, satisfy at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was already a huge town, of 52 families, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).