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A neolithic camp dating from 2700 BC covering some 12 acres. Excavated in the 1920s and 1930s. much destroyed by the racecourse and property developers.
©Bob Embleton
Taken from the Iron Age Hill Fort of White Hawk looking down on the area of Brighton adopting the name.
©Bob Embleton
Whitehawk infant school is in the foreground
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.4km<br/>St. Cuthman's Church was originally erected in Lintott Avenue in 1937, but was destroyed on 16 August 1943 by a German bomb with a church-warden buried alive. The new church was built in 1951-2 http://www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk/page_id__6550_path__0p114p462p795p.aspx
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.4km<br/>Viewed from near St Cuthman's church, the grandstand on Brighton Racecourse can be seen in the background, In recent sheep, sheep have been bought onto the hill mainly as a cheap means of keeping the grass short http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1179479 As a youngster I regularly played on this hill which was known to locals as "The Steep Hill"
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.4km<br/>The park was formerly in Lintott Avenue before it was demolished in the aerly 1980's as part of the development of Whitehawk, it was completed in 1988 http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/brightonandhove/local/TRA22073.html?ixsid=
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>Wilson Avenue runs north-south between Warren Road next to the racecourse high on the downs and Roedean Rd , the B2118 at Black Rock.
©Nigel Mykura
Dist:0.5km<br/>viewed from near Brighton Racecourse at the top of Manor Hill
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>The earthworks in the foreground are remains of a former neolithic camp which once possessed a number concentric ditches linked by causeways. The camp was split by a road in the 1930s and parts levelled out to accommodate Brighton racecourse. Beyond is the main transmitter mast for the Brighton and visible over large areas of the current city.
©Simon Carey
Dist:0.5km<br/>Road near the South of the Whitehawk estate
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>The transmitter serves 180,000 homes
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>A rear view of the shed.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Library was opened by Princess Alezxander in November 1977
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>at Junction with Wiston Road
©Paul Gillett
Dist:0.5km<br/>Large estate on the eastern edge of Brighton viewed from Race Hill which up to the end of the eighteenth century was known as Whitehawk Down with the valley called Whitehawk Bottom. Built as a large council estate between 1933-37 to house those removed from the slum clearances simultaneously occurring in the centre of town. The estate was rebuilt in the 1970s rearranging the former wide sweeping roads with small cul-de-sacs, many former roads disappeared or are truncated like Whitehawk Road to the right beyond the sports pavilion which originally continued northwards. Red Hill is to the left on the other side of the valley whilst the large white building to the right is Marine Gate which overlooks Brighton Marina.
©Simon Carey

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