Peacehaven
Sign in to savePeacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. It is above the chalk cliffs of the South Downs about east of Brighton city centre, on the A259 road. It is the place where the Greenwich Meridian crosses the English south coast. Peacehaven is next to Telscombe Cliffs, a later western extension to Peacehaven, which is in a separate parish and has a separate town council.
Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Peacehaven
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.static_image_name
- PeacehavenMemorial.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Meridian Monument
- UK place.area_total_km2
- 5.2
- UK place.population
- 14067
- UK place.population_ref
- (Parish-2011)
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TQ407013
- UK place.post_town
- PEACEHAVEN
- UK place.postcode_area
- BN
- UK place.postcode_district
- BN10
- UK place.dial_code
- 01273
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven
- UK place.london_distance
- N
- UK place.shire_district
- Lewes
- UK place.shire_county
- East Sussex
- UK place.website
- Town Council website
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Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England. It is above the chalk cliffs of the South Downs about east of Brighton city centre, on the A259 road. It is the place where the Greenwich Meridian crosses the English south coast. Peacehaven is next to Telscombe Cliffs, a later western extension to Peacehaven, which is in a separate parish and has a separate town council.
==History== There is a Bronze Age barrow (burial mound) near the cliff top, which has been under investigation by local societies. The barrow is evidence of human occupation at Peacehaven at least 3,500 years ago. A 2007 excavation of the new Bovis Homes site west of Peacehaven Community School's playing fields unearthed evidence for a prehistoric settlement throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages.