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After 1870 Currey produced his 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

This was a popular place for trippers, with train services from Temple Meads beginning at 7.00am.

Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise (bottom left) and Paul's Mead

Both clerical gentlemen led the local smuggling gangs, hiding the contraband in the old vicarage - now a beautiful thatched house called Vicars Mead.

John Meade Faulkner immortalised the locality in his famous smuggling novel 'Moonfleet'.

Meads and the slopes leading up to the Downs and Beachy Head were consid- ered ideally healthy, and convalescent homes and large villas proliferated: it used to be known as Eastbourne's Belgravia.

This view, now on the South Downs Way long distance footpath, looks down towards Eastbourne past Meads.

The village became St Mary Mead for the television adaptation of Agatha Christie's thrillers. Back in the 1960s there were as many as five shops in Nether Wallop.

Known today as Vicar's Mead, this is where Sir Walter Raleigh went to school. In later years it was the headquarters of Ambrose Stapleton, vicar and leader of the local smuggling gang.

One of these is Queens Mead, which is home to over 80 shops. There are 600 parking spaces here, and the railway station is less than a mile away, making Farnborough useful to London commuters.

The novelist John Meade Faulkner depicted a typical Chesil storm in his novel 'Moonfleet'.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the famous Box Tunnel in 1841 as part of his ambitious Great Western Railway link between London's Paddington station and Bristol's Temple Meads.

Both clerical gentlemen led the local smuggling gangs, hiding the contraband in the old vicarage - now a beautiful thatched house called Vicars Mead.

The park, on the north side of London Road at the junction with Rectory Road, used to be known as Beckney Mead.

The park, on the north side of London Road at the junction with Rectory Road, used to be known as Beckney Mead.

Basildon's first new school—Swan Mead Junior & Infants, in Church Road—opened in April 1954. Kingswood was built soon after.

Sunnyside remains intact today (as does the water pump on the green), but the garages have been supplanted by a new road - Coachman`s Mead - and, to the right, a new house.

There is now a very busy roundabout at the junction with Ray Mead Road, which leads to Cookham.

There are stooks of freshly-cut hay, drying in lines of little pyramids, across Hammond Mead (behind the horses). Cain's Folly (centre) and Golden Cap overlook Lyme Bay.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the famous Box Tunnel in 1841 as part of his ambitious Great Western Railway link between London's Paddington station and Bristol's Temple Meads.

Later all the decorative work - finials, dormers, chimneys and belfry - was removed, leaving a much plainer facade, but the school survived until 1990, afterwards being adapted as Chequer Mead

John Meade Faulkner immortalised the area in his famous smuggling novel 'Moonfleet'.

John Meade Faulkner immortalised the area in his famous smuggling novel 'Moonfleet'.

It picturesquely linked the old town with Meads, and was a popular stroll for visitors.