Henfield is a huge village and also civil parish 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) east northeast of the county town of Chichester at the road joint of the A281 and A2037. The parish has an acreage of 4,285 acres (1,734.1 ha). In the 2001 census 5,012 people stayed in 2,153 homes, of whom 2,361 were economically active. Various other neighboring communities include Burgess Hill to the eastern and Shoreham-by-Sea to the south. The population at the 2011 Census was 5,349. Just west of the town, both branches of the River Adur, the western Adur and also the eastern Adur, meet at Betley Bridge. From Henfield the Adur flows on right into the English Channel at Shoreham-by-Sea. Henfield was currently a large town, of 52 families, at the time of Domesday (1086 ).