Ansty (and Staplefield), lying to the northwest of Burgess Hill , is the largest civil parish in West Sussex. As well as Staplefield, the parish includes Brook Street, but the area is sparsely populated, with less than 2,000 persons recorded at the 2011 Census. Although the village sits in the heart of farming country, many of the properties are owned by ‘outsiders’ employed in the larger towns and cities of Southeast England .
