Hassocks Life | The community magazine, bringing colour
to Hassocks, Keymer and Clayton

The colour village magazine just for Hassocks: Hassocks Life.

Hassocks Life is a free, full colour community magazine which is published monthly. We print 4,300 copies with the majority being hand-delivered to homes in the West Sussex village of Hassocks. The first issue was launched at the Hassocks May Day event on 6th May 2019.

The current issue is the November magazine.
The next edition will be between 30th November - 6th December.

If you would like to advertise - look here

If you would like to contribute a story or article - click here

If you have some great photos of Hassocks - click here.

What do people say about our magazines…

“I’ve had some great results from my recent advert with you. Gained 4 jobs last week, 6 phone calls and 12 scans of my QR code!”
— Terry Matthews, Matthews Plumbing
I thought you might like to know that we’ve had three new dancers this month and each of them heard about us from your article. Thank you very much!
— Sally Course, Keymer Folk Dance Club
 

Monthly deadline information…

When do I need
to send in my advert
to the magazine?

See here for our monthly copy dates for the year

What a wonderful read Hassocks Life is. You have really captured the community spirit in Hassocks. Awesome! Can’t wait for July to see the next one!
— Chrissie, Hassocks resident
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Hassocks is a large village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex, England. Its name is believed to derive from the tufts of grass found in the surrounding fields.[2][3]

Located approximately 7 miles (11 km) north of Brighton, with a population of 7,667,[4] the area now occupied by Hassocks was just a collection of small houses and a coaching house until the 19th century, when work started on the London to Brighton railway. Hassocks until 2000 was just a postal district and prior to that the name of the railway station. The Parishes were named Clayton and Keymer and it is believed that when the railway came in 1841 the Parish Councils were given the opportunity of naming the station. However they could not agree and eventually the directors of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway gave up waiting and named the station Hassocks Gate themselves.

In the 1930s the Grand Avenue residential area, along with several other roads, was developed by George Ferguson on the site of former orchards and the Orchard Pleasure Gardens. A special feature of the Hassocks Homes development ordered by Mr Ferguson was the planting of flowering cherry trees along the main roads.