Grand Avenue
Introduction
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Grand Avenue
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 26 Aug 2012
Laid out in the 1930s as the spine of a new coastal town that was to be based around Bishopstone. By the outbreak of the war this road, Image, a few houses on Image, and a new station had been completed. Work stopped and would never start again after post war shortages and the new tougher 1947 Town Planning Act bought proceedings to a halt. Rookery Hill was completed by the early 1970s and the area on Hawth Hill around the station detached from the rest by the construction of the Buckle By-Pass in 1963 was also completed during the same period. However, Grand Avenue whose planners envisaged houses and other roads branching off the highway has become a country lane and a local access route for those wishing to get to the northern end of East Blatchington, now a suburb of Seaford.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.785377
Longitude
0.092779