[5] Records exist referring to this manor in the 13th century which is today the Grade II* listed building with tightly surrounding wide moat, Burstow Lodge[6] formerly taking up the north of all the parish land.

[2] Stephen de Burstow, whose name appears in the seals as Stephen Fitz Hamo, held the manor in the latter part of the 12th century, and that he was succeeded by his son Roger and his grandson John, the latter holding until and during the reign of Henry III,[2] his descendant John de Burstow while Lord here served with the Black Prince during the wars with the French.

Then Thomas followed by his son John Hugh Bainbridge; by 1870 it was acquired by Henry Kelsey of Burstow Park, uniting what remained of the two estates.

Hubert who was Archbishop of Canterbury until 1205 was mentioned as seized of this manor in a Charter relating to land to the south of Burstow Park.

In 1531 Burstow Park was leased to Sir John Gage (see above) for 80 years, reserving (excepting) the deer to the archbishop until the following Christmas.

John Payne was holding it and owing to a dispute it was bought by his cousin John Smith and during this 18th century period it passed then to Walter Harris, Daniel Hailes and Thomas Dickson, in the 19th century it passed to Henry Kelsey, who died in 1827, and whose son, of Burstow Court Manor owned the estate in 1841 and held it as a farm until death in 1887 when Alfred Lloyd bought it (see above).

His accurate measurements of star positions and the movements of the moon, made in the newly opened Royal Observatory, Greenwich, contributed to making possible the safe navigation of shipping around the world.

This stood in Weatherhill Road opposite where the present bus shelter stands, and in its place are Georgian architecture, classical-style houses.

Across the northern part of the parish a ridge of higher land runs from east to west, formed by a bed of Paludina limestone.

[2] The soil part of a wide 15 miles (24 km) to 20 miles (32 km) band south of the Greensand Ridge of "slowly permeable loamy/clayey slightly acid but base-rich soil"[16] Smallfield derives its name from a narrow piece of land (Saxon smæl feld)[citation needed] donated by Lord Burghersh to John de Burstow in thanks for war assistance rendered – see Smallfield Place.

[19] Shipley Bridge forms the western border settlement of the village – there is a public house here along Antlands Lane East which is its narrow main street between both sides of the small community, straddling the M23 motorway which has a neat parabolic arch bypass for the main through road that west of here divides in a T-junction towards Horley/motorway access to the north and Pound Hill, Crawley to the south.

A second residential road is on the Burstow side of the Horley parish border, Green Lane, which leads up to Mushroom farm and the confluence already mentioned.

Sanger's Circus had winter quarters for its animals at Burstow Lodge (at the northern end of Chapel Road) from the early 1900s until around 1940.

A noteworthy piece of timber construction, probably of 16th-century date, forms the tower; the supporting beams and posts being "very massive" according to the topographer and historian Malden.

Altered in an ornate style the ashlar structure has embattled angle bay windows rising through just two storeys to left end.

[22] Smallfield Place has at its core a Jacobean manor built c. 1600 by Edward Bysshe's father on a land, the earlier promised a gift of some small field or piece of land in return for services rendered by John de Burstow during the reign of Edward III in the Hundred Years War to a fellow army knight Lord Burghersh.

[2][23] Smallfield Place was where Edward Bysshe was born in 1615; he was knighted in 1661, in which year he made additions to the house, which bore that date.

Owen Manning states that part of the house was pulled down, the remainder being occupied in his time as a farm, and owned by Isaac Martin Rebow who died in 1781.

His daughter Mary Hester married General Francis Slater, who took the name of Rebow and owned Smallfield Place in 1841.

His son was Hector John Gurdon Rebow, from whom William Leslie Moore, the present owner, bought Smallfield Place in 1898.

This 15th century timber framed-above and whitewashed brick cladding-below medieval hall house has a Grade II* [n 5] listing.

[10] This has forty single rooms, the Leonard Cheshire foundation's mission to provide conditions necessary for their physical, mental and spiritual well-being of disabled people.

The east–west roads tend to be wider and straighter as they were not constructed until much later – a narrow humpback bridge built over Burstow Stream saw many cars bump until it was replaced in the mid-1960s.

[29] No more than 80 spaces exist therefore giving relatively limited railside car parking working on a first-come, first-served basis.