Russell Reed
★★★★★
Bewbush Water Gardens is tucked away behind residential streets and edged by the Mill Pond and Ifield Brook, it’s a peaceful little pocket of nature, complete with footbridges, ducks, and the occasional philosophical heron pretending not to judge your life choices. Before it became a tranquil garden spot, the area was part of the old Bewbush Farm estate and, later, the outer edge of Crawley's New Town expansion in the 1970s and 80s. It was pretty wild and overgrown for a while, basically a swampy patch of scrubland that only the bravest dog walkers dared enter. Now? It’s been transformed into a lush wetland park, great place to walk the dog or feed some ducks, or just to escape the screech of the A23.