10 Facts About Peacehaven

1.

Peacehaven is a town and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England.

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2.

Peacehaven is next to Telscombe Cliffs, a later western extension to Peacehaven, which lies within a separate parish and has a separate town council.

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3.

Peacehaven was established in 1916 by entrepreneur Charles Neville, who had purchased land in the parish of Piddinghoe; he then set up a company to develop the site .

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4.

Peacehaven advertised it by setting up a competition in virtually every newspaper in England to name the development.

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5.

Peacehaven provides six councillors to the district council, representing the same three wards as the parish council.

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6.

Peacehaven is in the Brighton Kemptown constituency for the UK parliamentary elections.

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7.

Peacehaven is twinned with the French town of Epinay-sous-Senart and the German town of Isernhagen.

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8.

The Peacehaven Players are a thriving amateur theatre group, a stamp collectors' club remains active, as do the bee keepers' association and the Pioneers local history group.

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9.

Peacehaven was selected for the site at which a car is pushed over the cliff in the TV thriller series The Level, while earlier Tiffany Mitchell's ashes were portrayed to be cast over the cliffs, in the BBC soap EastEnders in 1999, with viewers having been told at her funeral that she had spent happy childhood holidays there.

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10.

Miodrag Kojadinovic has a short story about a search for an ancestor in Peacehaven that plays with the concept of a "haven of peace", which won a prize for stories with Jewish themes and appeared in Serbian and Hungarian, both out of Novi Sad.

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