[4] The town's name means "hill or mound frequented by crows", from the Old English crāwe + beorg.

[5] In 1734, Sir Henry Fermor, a local benefactor, bequeathed money for a church and charity school for the benefit of the "very ignorant and heathenish people" that lived in the part of Rotherfield "in or near a place called Crowborough and Ashdown Forest".

[7] In the late 19th century, Crowborough was promoted as a health resort based on its high elevation, the rolling hills and surrounding forest.

In July 2014, the Crowborough Community Association put in a bid to buy Pine Grove to retain the library and develop the rest of the building as an "enterprise hub".

Crowborough is located in the northern part of East Sussex, around 6 kilometres (4 miles) from the county border with Kent.

The town is located on the eastern edge of the Ashdown Forest, an ancient area of open heathland which is protected for its ecological importance and was the setting for A.

Trains run on the Oxted line which is operated by Southern, providing a direct link with London Bridge, East Croydon, Edenbridge Town and Uckfield.

[citation needed] The local paper is the Kent and Sussex Courier published in Tunbridge Wells.

It has been threatened with closure numerous times, but services are still offered, in part due to a strong local campaign.

The town's football clubs comprise Crowborough Athletic F.C., who are based at the Crowborough Community Stadium and currently play in The Southern Counties East Premier[17] and Jarvis Brook F.C., founded in 1888, run four senior sides, the highest of which plays in the Southern Combination Division 2.

A thriving, sociable community club with hundreds of members, CRFC runs minis from U6s to U11s; juniors from U12s to U18s; girls from U12s to U18s; plus womens, 2nd XV/3rd XV/Vets sides.

[18] Crowborough Runners is an England Athletics-affiliated club based at Goldsmiths Recreation Ground, where there is a three-lane, all-weather floodlit track.

A year-round club run takes place at 7pm Wednesday evening from Goldsmiths' Leisure Centre car park.

The club coaches children and adults from those new to the game to league players at Crowborough Leisure Centre, Beacon Academy's Green Lane Gym, and Goldsmiths outdoor court.

[25] Crowborough is host to a detachment of the Army Cadet Force, a national organisation sponsored by the MoD for youths aged between 12 and 18.

In 2012 Wealden District Council refused permission for the golf club to build a new car park in woodland on the common after a campaign involving local residents and organisations including the Open Spaces Society.

[30][31][32] On 1 February 2013 the Club served notice to DEFRA to revoke the Section 193 agreement which governed the public's right of access on the Common.

[35] The club, with the assistance of Natural England, have embarked upon a 10-year programme to restore as much of the common as possible to heathland so this endangered environment will be preserved for future generations.

[36][37] Adjacent to the fourth fairway is a memorial to nine Canadian soldiers of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment who were killed by a flying bomb on 5 July 1944.

For nearly 30 years the quarry was left to natural regeneration and local people used it for informal play, with stories of swimming in the ponds and losing Wellington boots in the wet areas of the site.

[39] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels and short stories, lived at Windlesham Manor in Crowborough for the last 23 years of his life.

[citation needed] Conan Doyle was initially buried vertically in the grounds of the manor, but later interred with his first wife at Minstead in the New Forest.

[50] A main event in the town's calendar is its annual celebration of Guy Fawkes Night on 5 November.

It involves a fête on Chapel green during the day, followed by a torchlight parade led by the carnival princess in the evening, with various Sussex bonfire societies joining the march round the streets.

[52] As well as this for the last few years Sussex day has been celebrated on 16 June with a small fete in Chapel Green According to local legend, Walshes Road is haunted by a bag of soot.