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The Highway, PEACEHAVEN, BN10 8XL

This unmade road links the A259 to houses on other unmade roads on Peacehaven and Harbour Heights.

There has been a house on this plot since the 1920s though I have a feeling this may be a rebuild.

This is shown on OS maps as a motel but this closed many years ago - the building was latterly used as a Coffee House but has closed and is awaiting redevelopment. Although the building fronts the busy A259 the rear has views over the English Channel.

The name of the track which was part of the original 1920s layout of Peacehaven Heights. Its planned course ran south from The Highway then turned west and ended at Cliff Road. The house on the right was built in the 1930s and is numbered 14 despite it being the only ever house built on the road. Beyond it the road becomes a greenway which follows the original course of the planned road. To the left are the static caravans of Rushy Hill Caravan Park.

Looking down towards its junction with South Coast Road, the A259, at the eastern end of Peacehaven. Now a restricted byway it was the original road to Newhaven across what was then open downland. The new route branching off to the right was added in the early 19th century when the road was turnpiked and lessened the gradient when negotiating Rushy Hill. The road is still used as an access route for the houses on Peacehaven Heights.

Image now demolished. The motel had actually ceased trading by the original picture and later became Image with the building finally knocked down a couple of years ago. What will replace it is still unknown, a block of flats was granted permission in 2006 but have yet to make an appearance. For a while there was a suggestion that a new fire station should be built here and there have also been rumours that Tesco are interested in the site. In the meantime the site has a rather forlorn look to it awaiting for something to happen to it.

The name of this piece of rough ground according to Piddinghoe's 1843 tithe map. When Charles Neville purchased much of the downland in the southern part of the former parish this was included and was laid out with roads, what would have been Cliff Road is the greenway to the left, but these were barely developed and after the Second World War when tougher planning regulations were introduced the undeveloped area known as Peacehaven Heights was left as a green corridor between Peacehaven and Newhaven. A number of houses dot the landscape and some of the old roads can still be made out by many others disappeared. The current cliff top between the two towns is open access and is a popular dog walking area.

Rather seedy looking rooms of the motel on the western edge of Peacehaven as the A259 leaves town. At least the back south facing windows have excellent views of the cliffs and sea.

Part of the original 1920s layout of Peacehaven Heights and named as such on the 1928 OS map. However, no plots were ever sold down this road and the road fell into abeyance and lost its designation after the Second World War. I'm not sure when the road was surfaced but it does not stretch down to the cliff top so I'm guessing possibly Second World War. The track is not a public right of way though many people walk down it. The house with the flat roof to the right was built on the site of a former chalk pit which for many years was the only feature marked on a map between the road and the sea.