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The name, which is Old English for 'the valley of people associated with a man called Ōfa', shows that the village has existed since Anglo-Saxon times. Little seems to have disturbed its peace since. It is sometimes said to have been attacked by French raiders in the known incursion of 1377, but
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stayed there for less than 24 hours before escaping to France in 1651, fathering a child in the process. In reality, the King stayed at the George Inn in West Street, Brighton. The Hall is a gentry mansion which was the birthplace of
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It has expanded through the growth of residential streets on its eastern and southern sides, and now has a population of about 1,200. Some of the current housing replaces earlier shacks of the type once found in neighbouring
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to the south-east and Woodingdean to the north-east, but still has open downland on its other sides, on which may be found a golf course and
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Davies, John G., research papers deposited locally, in e.g. East Sussex Record Office; the present writer is indebted to these papers.
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Ovingdean is now the site of several proposed urban fringe sites due development under Brighton and Hove City Plan.
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there is no hard evidence for this. The historic village is a conservation area. Its focus is the 11th century
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Many homes in the conservation area are converted farm buildings, and the most prominent houses are
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and Ovingdean Hall. The Grange is the subject of legend. In 1857, the popular novelist
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Just outside the historic boundary of Ovingdean is Ian Fraser House, better known as
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A history of Rottingdean and Ovingdean through their place-names
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Among those buried in the churchyard are the inventor
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is a small, formerly agricultural village and former
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was only ever found in two other places in England (
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Ovingdean is located in East Sussex
East Sussex
Unitary authority
Brighton and Hove
Ceremonial county
East Sussex
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
BN2
Dialling code
Police
Sussex
Fire
East Sussex
Ambulance
South East Coast
UK Parliament
Brighton Kemptown
UK
England
East Sussex
50°48′52″N 0°04′26″W / 50.81444°N 0.07389°W / 50.81444; -0.07389

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