EAST GRINSTEAD

town (parish), Mid Sussex district, administrative county of West Sussex, historic county of Sussex, England, lying south of London in the wooded countryside of the Weald within easy commuting range of the metropolis. Its market charter dates to 1121, and the town centre contains old buildings, as well as modern shops that serve an extensive residential district. The Queen Victoria Hospital (founded 1889) became, after 1939, a world-renowned centre for plastic surgery. At nearby New Chapel, the first Mormon temple in Great Britain was completed in 1958. Pop. (1991) 27,058.