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The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.
We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate.
Lobbying by the Duke of Devonshire and others secured borough status for Eastbourne in 1883 with George Wallis, the Duke's agent, becoming the first mayor.
Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s
Fortunately for the village, it is now by- passed by the busy A22, but until then traffic had to negotiate this very sharp bend, and the London to Eastbourne traffic made the centre of
direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main highway running between London and the seaside resort of Eastbourne
second master plan for the areas around the hamlet of Meads, this time for tree-lined streets of villas and houses in grounds that led to this western development being nicknamed 'The Belgravia of Eastbourne
Our last view in this chapter before turning north back to Hailsham shows the Horse and Groom pub at the junction of the High Street and the Eastbourne Road, the A22.
This allowed them to corner the bulk of excursions out of Brighton and Eastbourne, and to gain a substantial foothold in the Isle of Wight and Hastings traffic.
popularly referred to as 'The Bungalow Murder', and involved the killing of 37-year-old Emily Kaye at an isolated former customs officer's cottage at The Crumbles, a shingle stretch of beach between Eastbourne
Unlike Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, Worthing never aspired to having an opulent purpose built Victorian hotel.
According to the records of the Eastbourne Natural History Society, Darby's Hole was in fact part of a cave system which had formerly been used by the local smugglers.
Beside the church is Easebourne Augustinian Priory.
