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Telscombe
The first was Ambrose Gorham, who became lord of the manor around 1898 and used the local commons to train his racehorses, one of which triumphed in the 1902 Grand National. The other was Charles Neville, a developer who had made his money building new towns in Australia and Canada. Gorham was very much the paternal squire who loved the local downland whereas Nevilel was the businessman who saw potential in the open landscape. The former provided local amenities though he refused to sanction a pub and eventually funded the village's electricity supply in 1930. The latter founded Peacehaven during the First World War and went on to develop neighbouring Saltdean. He also completed the development of Telscombe Cliffs which had been started by the Cavendish Land Company to little effect in the first decade of the 20th century. However, his attempt to join the two settlements together foundered on Gorham's refusal to sanction the sale of what became known as Telscombe Tye. When he died in 1933 he bequeathed the land to Brighton borough council with the stipulation that it should remain undeveloped in perpetuity. As a consequence the Tye remains a common today grazed by a couple of local farms and used as an open space by local residents.
The old village is no longer accessible from the two newer settlements unless by horse or foot, motor vehicles requiring a detour to a long winding land from Southease as the only way in and out. Prior to the construction of Saltdean and Telscombe Cliffs the old Dover road ran along the cliff top with he only buildings being the Lifeboat Inn and a few coastguard cottages.
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