Horsted Keynes is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England. The village is located about eight kilometres north east of Haywards Heath, in the Weald. The civil parish is largely rural, covering 1,581.46 hectares, and has a population of 1,507 persons. The Prime Meridian passes to the east of Horsted Keynes. The place-name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 and means 'horse farm'. The land was then held by a member of the Keynes family, as was later the case with Milton Keynes. Horsted Keynes is centred around a village green with pubs, Post Office and village store. The Post Office was to be closed down for lack of use but was bought up by a group of villagers who invested in its continued use for the community. It now serves a large rural area. A couple of months before being assassinated, U.S. President John F. Kennedy slept in the parish when he stayed one Saturday night at Birch Grove, the home of the former Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan. The American Secret Service closed the village that night, siting their communication hub in the Lounge Bar of "The Crown Inn". The two principal churches are: the Anglican Parish Church dedicated to St Giles and the Roman Catholic church of St Stephen which is unoccupied and controlled from the nearest town, Haywards Heath. Harold Macmillan was buried in the churchyard of St Giles after his death in December 1986, alongside his wife Dorothy, who died 20 years previously. Wikipedia [ - ]

Horsted Keynes is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England... [ + ]