Maps in the first half of the 1800s show Gossipsgreen in varying layouts surrounded by farmland and close to a few small estates.

The railway was built in the 1830s to the north of Gossipsgreen and ran by Hazelwood, a wooded area behind the hamlet, then past The Craigans before dividing Ifield Mill Pond to the west.

During Victorian times, Gossipsgreen disappeared from published maps, though The Craigans, Dower House and Woldhurstlee continued to be marked.

By 1946, a year before the formation of the Crawley Development Corporation, the hamlet reappeared on the map but the name had changed to Gossops Green.

According to A History of the County of Sussex (1987, Hudson et al., online), the new neighbourhood of Gossops Green was ninth and last of the original New Town communities laid out during 1956-7 and built between 1958 and 1961.

Gossops Green is on the A23 trunk road which was the main London to Brighton route before the M23 motorway was opened in the 1970s, which by-passed Crawley.

There is a significant number of people who take the train to work in places like London, Croydon and Horsham.

The Council maintains a dedicated web page Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine for the neighbourhood, which shows demographic statistics and useful contacts and community information.

The neighbourhood forms part of the Bewbush, Gossops Green and Southgate constituency and has one elected member.