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Tyedean Road, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 7AU

Looking across the A259 South Coast Road to the grassland of Telscombe Tye and houses in Gorham Way in Telscombe Cliffs.

Stretching from South Coast Road to Grassmere Avenue. This part of Telscombe Cliffs was I believe originally laid out by the Cavendish Land Company, the straight lines of Neville's avenues begins at Telscombe Cliffs Way.

Looking towards the houses in Gorham Way, the western most point of the settlement of Telscombe Cliffs.

Looking across South Coast Road and Telscombe Tye towards Telscombe Cliffs. The latter was actually the first place to be developed along the cliffs by the Cavendish Land Company around 1900 though this attempt initially failed. However, with Charles Neville's development of Peacehaven and Saltdean the older Telscombe Cliffs was revitalised and grew with the former. The bungalows in view are on Gorham Way named after the Lord of Manor at Telscombe, Ambrose Gorham, who having battled to prevent Neville getting hold of his land, willed the Tye to Brighton Borough Council, despite the fact Telscombe had never been a part of Brighton, on condition it remained in perpetual use as an area of common land and thus creating a buffer between the outlying eastern edge of Brighton and the towns to the east.

1950s/60s block of flats on Gorham Way facing onto the A259 South Coast Road.

Built in 1832 as the Portobello Coastguard Station opposite what was then an isolated inn, see Image, on the main coast road from Brighton to Seaford. It closed just before the First World War whereupon the cottages were renamed as The Moorings which itself disappeared sometime in the 1960s whereupon the houses are now just numbered from right to left, with the former watch house being 438. Viewed from the entrance of the Smuggler's Rest car park. For many years the coastguard owned the land to the rear of the property, known as Portobello Furlong according to Telsombe's 1842 tithe map, and initially refused to allow both the Cavendish Land Company and later Charles Neville develop it until the late 1930s at least.

A block of flats at the western edge of the settlement of Telscombe Cliffs, named after Ambrose Gorham, who bequeathed the neighbouring Telscombe Tye in perpetuity to Brighton council on condition it remained undeveloped.