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Ambleside Avenue, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 7LE

This is the northern part of Image which I vividly remember was farmland during the 1970s and only became a park when the estate based around Kirby Drive was constructed in the 1980s.

In Chatsworth Park,

Looking west from the junction with Hoddern Avenue near the school. Peacehaven was one of the reasons tough planning laws were introduced in 1947. Prior to 1919 this view would have been pasture farming on downland, then a mixture of World War One, cheap competition from abroad (particularly sheep farming) and rising death duties put many farmers out of business. The usual salvation was to sell to property developers, one being G.W.Neville who bought all the land now called Peacehaven and began selling plots particularly to returning soldiers. Neville made his money from building towns in America and this shows in the grid layout of Peacehaven. Originally called New Anzac on Sea the name was thought to be in bad taste and was renamed Peacehaven after a national competition.

Near the Park Avenue entrance

This part of the road would have been developed during the late 1960s on previously vacant plots, the uniformity suggesting that very little but fields existed here. Hoddern Avenue is named after the local farm and stretches from the cliff tops to Firle Road.

The northern part of the road which until the 1977-78 petered out into a rough track at the point where the road surfaces change. The building of the Balcombe Road flats and the road itself meant this section now had a southern junction. Beyond that Sutton Avenue begins at the roundabout on the A259 and is the main access route to the Meridian Centre.

Path leading round the West side of the Park

This is the southern part of the park that lies to the south of a footpath that links Ambleside Avenue to Central Avenue. It was extended to the north during the 1980s when the estate based around Kirby Drive was constructed, see Image According to Telscombe's 1842 tithe map this was once a field called South Down.

A cul de sac off Kirby Drive that was built in the early 1980s when a large chunk of farmland was developed in the north of the settlement. Viewed from its entrance into Chatsworth Park.