thumb|right|Borough of Crawley shown within West Sussex thumb|Crawley Town Hall, on The Boulevard in the town centre thumb|Ordnance Survey map of the Crawley area, 1932 Crawley became a parish in the sixteenth century, having previously been a chapelry in the parish of Slaugham. When district and parish councils were established under the Local Government Act 1894, Crawley was given a parish council and included in the Horsham Rural District. The parish was significantly enlarged in 1933, when it absorbed the neighbouring parish of Ifield.
thumb|right|Borough of Crawley shown within West Sussex thumb|Crawley Town Hall, on The Boulevard in the town centre thumb|Ordnance Survey map of the Crawley area 1932 Crawley became a parish in the sixteenth century, having previously been a chapelry in the parish of Slaugham. When district and parish councils were established under the Local Government Act 1894, Crawley was given a parish council and included in the Hor,sham Rural District. The parish was significantly enlarged in 1933, when it absorbed the neighbouring parish of Ifield.