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Ambleside Avenue, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 7LN

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.

Near the Park Avenue entrance

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.

Looking towards the junction with St Peter's Avenue, see also Image

Viewed from Cairo Avenue South the park dates from the 1990s having previously been wasteland. Beyond is Malines Avenue South a private road that allows access down the cliff to the sea defences. The rough ground on the other side of that road is the site of the former Peacehaven Hotel a showpiece building constructed in 1922 with a variety of amenities including a landscaped Italian themed garden. All that remains today is the hotel's original garage which once stood opposite but for many years has housed small business units. The gardens had overgrown by the 1970s though it was still possible to uncover some of the remains amongst the undergrowth whilst the hotel was demolished in 1987 replaced by a carvery located on the main road out of shot to the left. For the last years of its life it was a pub, the first one I ever got served in!

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.

One of the original roads of the settlement that was laid out in the first decade of the 20th century and connects Telscombe Cliffs Way to Central Avenue. Beyond the fence to the right is Telscombe Cliffs Primary School.

Small cul de sac off Telscombe Cliffs Way that was built in the late 1960s.