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Rottingdean is now a village in the city of Brighton and Hove, in East Sussex, on the south coast of England. As a separate parish before 1928 it included the villages of Saltdean and Woodingdean and bordered the parish of Ovingdean. It has an historic centre, often the subject of picture postcards. Rottingdean is in a dry valley whose sides in the upper reaches are quite steep, and this valley comes right down to the English Channel coast. The population of Rottingdean ward within Brighton and Hove was 13,651 in the UK census of 2011, the village itself had about 3,000 inhabitants. The parish became part of County Borough of Brighton in 1928. The adjacent village of Woodingdean was formerly (until 1933) part of Rottingdean parish. It was then transferred to Ovingdean. Also formerly in the parish were most of the district of what is now Saltdean (which is now a separate ward). Roedean School, a well-known independent school for girls, is located in Rottingdean. For most of its history it was a farming community, but from the late 18th century it attracted leisured visitors wanting a genteel alternative to raffish Brighton, among them some names famous in English cultural life. Some, in the late 19th century, notably the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) and his nephew Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), made it their home. Kipling's old house adjacent to Kipling Gardens is still standing, and the former house of the painter Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949) is currently open to the public as a library and museum. When farming collapsed in the 1920s, much of the farmland became available for building, and Rottingdean increased significantly in population, but especially in the area known as Saltdean. A large number of smallholdings appeared in the detached part of the parish called Woodingdean.
[edit] Balsdean
Balsdean is a deserted hamlet in a remote downland valley east of Brighton on record since about 1100. It was formerly a chapelry of the parish of Rottingdean, and its territory touched that of the mother parish only at a single point. Despite its remoteness, it now falls within the boundaries of the city of Brighton and Hove. [edit] Saltdean
Saltdean is a coastal village in the city of Brighton and Hove, with part (known as East Saltdean) outside the city boundary in Lewes District. Saltdean is approximately 5 miles east of central Brighton, 5 miles west of Newhaven, and 6 miles south of Lewes. It is bordered by farmland and the South Downs National Park. Saltdean was open farmland, originally a part of the village of Rottingdean, and almost uninhabited until 1924 when land was sold off for speculative housing and property development. Some of this was promoted by entrepreneur Charles W. Neville, who set up a company to develop the site (he also eventually built nearby town of Peacehaven and parts of Rottingdean). Saltdean has a mainly shingle beach, fronted by a promenade, the Undercliff Walk, which can be reached directly from the cliff top, by steps from the coast road, or by a subway tunnel from the nearby lido. The buildings nearest the beach are the most architecturally varied, and include some influenced by international trends of the inter-war years, e.g. Bauhaus and Cubism, and there are some which are Spanish influenced. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Saltdean. [edit] Woodingdean
Woodingdean is an eastern suburb of the city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, separated from the main part of the city by downland and the Brighton Racecourse. The earliest buildings in Woodingdean, apart from scattered farm buildings, were those of the former workhouse school in Warren Road, now the site of the Nuffield Hospital. The grounds contain the capped site of what is claimed to be the deepest hand-dug well in the world, the Woodingdean Water Well, which was created to provide water for the workhouse. It was excavated between 1858 and 1862, and has a depth of 1,285 feet (392 m). Woodingdean in its present form began to grow up after the First World War in the northern part of the parish of Rottingdean. It consisted of plots of land on the South Downs which had formerly been used for sheep-farming. These were sold by developers (often but not exclusively to returning soldiers) and most were originally smallholdings, e.g. poultry farms. For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Woodingdean. [edit] Research Tips
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