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Windmill Lane, EASTBOURNE, BN20 0EE

Part of the private estates of Friston and Eastdean which were laid out from the late 1920s onwards though not completed until after the Second World War. Windmill Lane runs from the A259 to Warren Lane with the site of the titular windmill at the far end of the image where the road bends to join Seaford Road. Friston Mill was blown down in a storm in 1926.

The three houses in view have been built on the former site of Friston's windmill which blew down in a gale in 1926 (See http://www.britishpathe.com/video/old-sussex-landmark to a Pathe newsreel which filmed the aftermath). The film claims the old post mill to be 200 years old though both Yeakell & Gardner's 1778-83 map and the OS map of 1813 do not have a windmill marked for this spot though it does have another in a position to the north of modern day Gayles near the main Seaford Road. However, Friston's tithe map does have it marked in this position so it may suggest a move was made sometime in the intervening years, that of both early maps got the position wrong. The site remained empty until these houses were built in the 1970s.