Burgess Hill is a
civil parish and a town primarily located in the
Mid Sussex district of
West Sussex, England, close to the border with
East Sussex, on the edge of the
South Downs National Park. Located south of
London, north of
Brighton and Hove, and east-northeast of the county town of
Chichester, it occupies an area of and had a population of 30,635 at the time of the 2011 Census, making it the fourth most populous parish in the county (behind
Crawley,
Worthing and
Horsham) and the most populous in the district. Other nearby towns include
Haywards Heath to the north east and
Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, to the south east.