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Meads Avenue, HOVE, BN3 8EE

Heading north from Sainsbury's, Hove

A late 18th century flint barn that is the only survivor from Benfield Manor Farm which operated from here from the late 16th century to 1871 when the farmhouse was demolished and replaced by a row of agricultural labourer's cottages. They in turn have nearly gone, the lone chimney on the right along with the concealed foundations being the only thing left of them. The barn is currently the clubhouse for the Benfield Valley Golf Course.

Geographically this is actually the southern part of Benfield Hill which has been split from the rest by the A27 which lurks in the cutting beyond the bushes in the distance. The footpath begins at Hangleton Lane, crosses the by-pass then Benfield Hill before heading north to join the Monarch's Way.

This is the ninth hole of nine on a course that was laid out in the early 1990s using some of the older abandoned fairways of West Hove Golf Course. The latter relocated to land north of the A27 when that road was constructed having been split in two by it and lost some more land to the Hangleton Link Road. The view takes in Foredown Tower on the left and Southwick Hill in the distance on the right.

Running parallel to the A27 which lies in a cutting below the bushes to the right. The course was opened in the early 1990s using some of the fairways vacated by the West Hove Golf Club which relocated to a new course north of the newly opened by-pass which had been built through part of that course along with a link road. Benfield Valley Golf Course has nine holes, five south of A27 and four north of it. Valley is a bit of a misnomer here as this hole is on the southern part of Benfield Hill which was also split in two by the by-pass.

This path requires some bending of the knees to duck under the low lying foliage. The chimney is the only remaining structure left standing of a row of late Victorian agricultural labourer's cottages that were built on the site of Benfield Manor Farm that was demolished in 1871.

The 9 hole golf course is situated in the northern part of Benfield Valley using some of the fairways vacated by West Hove Golf Course when it relocated north of the A27. The chimney in view is one of the few structural remains of a row of late 19th century agricultural labourer's cottages that were built on the site of Benfield Manor Farm which was demolished in 1871.

The church has good views in most directions except east.

Once a farm track linking a couple of downland farms now a link road between the suburb of Hangleton and Hangleton Link Road, the A293, an access road for the Brighton by-pass.

A view of the suburb from Benfield Valley Golf Course. The original settlement of Hangleton was deserted in the middle ages leaving just the church, manor and a few isolated farms in the area, Many of the latter failed in the interwar years and often the lure of property developers' money proved irresistible to the struggling farmers with the result that suburbs such as Hangleton began appearing on the eve of World War Two. Much of the valley below was completed post 1945 specifically in the 1960s and 70s when the last fields disappeared for good.