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Rookery Way, SEAFORD, BN25 2TE

One of the original roads of the 1930s estate that runs north from the junction with Marine Drive. For many years only these two roads were built on until the 1970s when the rest of the Rookery Hill estate was completed.

The name of the postwar estate built on the hill of the same name.

The name of the estate built on the hill of the same name. Parts were begun in the late 1930s but the vast majority was not completed until the early 1970s. In the foreground is the former tidal inlet that once connected Bishopstone to the sea whilst between that and the houses a long flint wall is visible a relic from the time Bishopstone Road was little more than a drive to Bishopstone Place. Taken about half an hour after sunrise.

Part of the Rookery Hill estate and taken from the junction with Rookery Way. This road was constructed in the 1970s as an access to the parts of the estate.

The only vehicular entrance to the Rookery Hill estate. The road was laid out in the late 1930s as part of a plan to build a new coastal town around the village of Bishopstone. However, the outbreak of the war halted proceedings and a mixture of material shortages and tougher planning laws prevented the original plans from being implemented. During the 1960s vacant plots along this road, Bishopstone Road and Rookery Way were filled in and in the following decade the rest of the estate was completed.

A postwar housing estate built on a hill of the same name. Viewed from the footpath that runs along the edge of the beach between Newhaven and Seaford and looking across the low lying land that once carried the River Ouse to one of its former mouths in Seaford. The first embankment contains the Vanguard Way and Ouse Valley Walk footpath whilst the next carries the railway between Newhaven and Seaford. The southern side of Rookery Hill was once sea cliffs. Taken at dusk.

People have lived around Bishopstone for thousands of years, evidenced by Neolithic finds, Bronze Age Bowl barrows, Romans remains, a Saxon cemetery and later Medieval buildings . The name means “lands of the Bishop”, in this case the Bishops of Chichester who owned the area from the 8th -16th century http://www.sussex-opc.org/index.php?k=175&t=Parish

The A259 heading towards Newhaven which can be seen in the distance straight ahead though the road twists and turns following the eastern side of the former Ouse estuary. The houses on the right are in Rookery Hill a 1960s estate built on the hill of the same name. Taken about half an hour after sunrise.