Friars Bay - The Town On Maps That Was Never Built. Sussex Map Mysteries: Episode 1

Old maps often have curious things on them, which lead us back to a different age. Join me as I discover what some of these things were, and what is left today.

In this episode I visit the cliffs on the eastern edge of Charles Neville's "Garden City by the Sea": Peacehaven (previously known as New Anzac-on-Sea). Maps from the 1920's show there to be a whole estate of roads here, almost a town in its own right, but there are only a few scattered houses and dirt tracks now. So what happened and why wasn't the area developed?

I’d like to thank everyone who has helped me with this video, especially the members of the Peacehaven and Telscombe Cliffs history group on Facebook, who gave me loads of useful information. Finally, I’m not an historian, so I apologise if anything in this video is totally incorrect, I’ll leave the experts to what they do best and hope the rest of you gained some knowledge!

Fun fact not mentioned in the video: Mr Bean Episode 1 was filmed here!

Fun fact 2: the weather was very windy when this was filmed, so apologies for the wobbly camera in places, the stabilising device was being blown about!

Stanley Bernard's fascinating books are available here: http://sussexbooks.co.uk/alltitles.php

The Facebook group for Peacehaven and Telscombe history is here:   / 893625674090654  

Some of the music in this video is from: bensound.com and also the YouTube music library

All the maps shown are available from the National Library of Scotland: https://maps.nls.uk/

The Geology of Britain 3D map is available from the British Geological Survey here: https://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbr...