Henfield is a huge town as well as civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies 33 miles (53 kilometres) south of London, 12 miles (19 kilometres) northwest of Brighton, and 30 miles (48 km) eastern northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction 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 individuals resided in 2,153 families, of whom 2,361 were economically energetic. Other nearby communities consist of 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, the two branches of the River Adur, the western Adur and the eastern Adur, satisfy at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on right into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was already a large village, of 52 families, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).