What's Woodingdean like to live in?

[skipper734]

Isn't Ovingdean between Rottingdean and Woodingdean?

 

[Samej]

The Toby was a place where you wiped your feet on the way out. Horrible pub. Its now an auction house or something along those lines.

You make it sound like Croyden

 

[Garage_Doors]

You make it sound like Croyden

Croydon even.
Yes it was a bit of a rough clique type pub.
But that was 5 years ago.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

You should have seen it 30 years ago

 

[The Brighton Bear]

Isn't Ovingdean between Rottingdean and Woodingdean?

I suggest you have a look at a map of the area.

 

[skipper734]

Ok you are right. Ovingdean is on the other side of the ridge. It's just that a couple of mates and my niece who lived in various houses adjacent to Falmer Road in the bit you have pointed out is Rottingdean, they all used to tell me they lived in Ovingdean. Bastards. :

 

[Northstandite]

I don’t think the compiler gave a flying f*** what each of the residents thought,
But it does bear out what the report was saying, (which includes Ovindean) is that for such a small area, whether countryside divided or not, within is a relative small geographical area there are an extra ordinary wide rage of properties which is unique and quite rare in this country.

Programme_Seller:

Please cheer up.
A healthy NSC debate, where someone correctly pointed out a key difference between Woodingdean and Rottingdean (e.g. they're geographically well apart, so aren't a single unified urban area/suburb), didn't warrant your little temper. Listen to all points of view and keep an open mind.

 

[DT Withdean]

I suggest you have a look at a map of the area.

Woodingdean separated from Rottingdean by countryside. Ovingdean to the south west of Woodingdean, adjoins Rottingdean.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Programme_Seller:

Please cheer up.
A healthy NSC debate, where someone correctly pointed out a key difference between Woodingdean and Rottingdean (e.g. they're geographically well apart, so aren't a single unified urban area/suburb), didn't warrant your little temper. Listen to all points of view and keep an open mind.

I'm chilled, no temper here, just stating the compiler did not go door to door asking if it was ok to write the piece.

Both Woodingdean and Rottingdean are geographically joined by the B2123 "falmer road challenge".

 

[DT Withdean]

I'm chilled, no temper here, just stating the compiler did not go door to door asking if it was ok to write the piece.

Both Woodingdean and Rottingdean are geographically joined by the B2123 "falmer road challenge".

Does a road connecting to entirely different locations, separated by countryside, make those 2 locations a single area? No.
Add, entirely different: histories, housing stock, the countryside separating them, property values, council wards. All points to, no.

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Does a road connecting to entirely different locations, separated by countryside, make those 2 locations a single area? No.
Add, entirely different: histories, housing stock, the countryside separating them, property values, council wards. All points to, no.

what if it has a paved footpath alongside the road that connects the two

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Does a road connecting to entirely different locations, separated by countryside, make those 2 locations a single area? No.
Add, entirely different: histories, housing stock, the countryside separating them, property values, council wards. All points to, no.

Ovingdean is in Rottingdean ward and actually makes up far more of the ward than Rottingdean village itself, doesn't it? So I suppose that links the two in some way. Woodingdean is clearly a separate area, though it isn't always clear on the B2133 where the boundary is. My parents looked at a house in Ovingdean when they moved to Brighton in 1967, though I think the price was too high or it was a pre-fab that put them off (can't remember which), so they ended up by the A23 at Patcham (now under the bypass flyover). Was it around that time the 13 year old boy's body was found somewhere in that area? Mum and Dad can't remember whether they had moved when he was found or if they were still in Lindfield at the time. One of the murders Sussex Police still haven't solved if I remember correctly.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Earlier this year, in his capacity as Transport Minister, Norman Baker gave a funding allocation to every English local authority that had rural areas within its boundary. Brighton & Hove City Council qualified - because Rottingdean, Ovingdean and Woodingdean are officially "rural communities".

 

[pauli cee]

Just curious, like.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Earlier this year, in his capacity as Transport Minister, Norman Baker gave a funding allocation to every English local authority that had rural areas within its boundary. Brighton & Hove City Council qualified - because Rottingdean, Ovingdean and Woodingdean are officially "rural communities".

What about Hangleton? Hove's only real suburb.

 

[skipper734]

Ovingdean is in Rottingdean ward and actually makes up far more of the ward than Rottingdean village itself, doesn't it? So I suppose that links the two in some way. Woodingdean is clearly a separate area, though it isn't always clear on the B2133 where the boundary is. My parents looked at a house in Ovingdean when they moved to Brighton in 1967, though I think the price was too high or it was a pre-fab that put them off (can't remember which), so they ended up by the A23 at Patcham (now under the bypass flyover). Was it around that time the 13 year old boy's body was found somewhere in that area? Mum and Dad can't remember whether they had moved when he was found or if they were still in Lindfield at the time. One of the murders Sussex Police still haven't solved if I remember correctly.

39 years after boy's murder, police arrest two men | UK news | The Guardian



There you go, still hot on the case.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

39 years after boy's murder, police arrest two men | UK news | The Guardian



There you go, still hot on the case.

That was four years ago both were relesed without charge. You never know what will turn up or has turned up next at John Street. Perhaps that's why Bishops still inside.