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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 name Woodingdean came from Woodendean (i.e. wooded valley) Farm which was situated in the south end of what is now Ovingdean.
The Woodingdean Water Well is the deepest hand-dug well in the world, at 390 metres (1,280 ft) deep. It was dug to provide water for a workhouse. [1] [2] Work on the well started in 1858, and was finished four years later, on 16 March 1862. It is located just outside the Nuffield Hospital in Woodingdean, in Brighton and Hove, England, United ...
The remains of more than 300 Quakers were reinterred at the Lawn Memorial Cemetery in Woodingdean in 1972. Quakers worshipped in Brighton from 1690, when they bought a former malthouse near the site of the present Pavilion Theatre in the North Laine. [79] Empty land next to this, extending to about 1 acre (0.4 ha), became a burial ground.
Just east of Woodingdean, is the Bostle barrow field . There is a cluster of at least twenty-seven small low grassy mounds, which are probably Saxon, and three larger, probably Bronze Age barrows on the top of the hill just south of the bridleway fence line. The barrow field is a 'precious fragment' of antiquity surrounded by agricultural fields.
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Balsdean. Balsdean is a deserted hamlet in a remote downland valley east of Brighton, East Sussex, England, 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.
The low, brick-built structure with a tiled roof is on Warren Road on the Woodingdean estate. [242] It was registered for worship and marriages in April 1994, [246] [247] replacing a building on Bernard Road which had been used since 1954. [248] It is used by three Brighton-based Congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses: East, Elm Grove and ...
From west to east it includes Queen's Park; Kemptown, the centre of Brighton's LGBTQ+ community; the council estates of Whitehawk and Moulsecoomb; and beyond the racecourse affluent and genteel coastal villages like Rottingdean, Woodingdean, Saltdean and the town of Peacehaven.