Henfield is a large town and civil church 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 kilometres) eastern northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road junction of the A281 and also A2037. The church has an acreage 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 active. Other close-by communities include Burgess Hill to the east and also Shoreham-by-Sea to the south. The population at the 2011 Census was 5,349. Simply west of the community, the two 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 currently a huge village, of 52 families, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).