Editing Peacehaven

{{Short description|Town in East Sussex, England}}
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{{Infobox UK place
| official_name            = Peacehaven
| country                  = England
| region                   = South East England
| static_image_name        = PeacehavenMemorial.jpg
| static_image_caption     = The Meridian Monument
| area_footnotes           = <ref name=ESiF>{{cite web |url= http://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/webview/ |title=East Sussex in Figures |access-date=26 April 2008 |publisher=East Sussex County Council |archive-date=28 December 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121228085807/http://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/webview/welcome.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
| area_total_km2           = 5.2
| population               = 14067
| population_ref           = (Parish-2011)<ref name=P:P>{{cite web |url= http://www.escis.org.uk/Entry/view/Population:_Peacehaven/12001 |title=Population: Peacehaven |access-date=12 March 2013 |publisher=East Sussex County Council Library and Information Services |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071121130430/http://www.escis.org.uk/Entry/View/Population%3A_Peacehaven/12001 |archive-date=21 November 2007}}</ref>
| population_density       = {{convert|6621|/sqmi|/km2|abbr=on}}
| os_grid_reference        = TQ407013
| coordinates              = {{coord|50.80|0.00|display=inline,title}}
| post_town                = PEACEHAVEN
| postcode_area            = BN
| postcode_district        = BN10
| dial_code                = 01273
| constituency_westminster = [[Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven]]
| london_distance          = {{convert|49|mi}} [[Boxing the compass|N]]
| shire_district           = [[Lewes (district)|Lewes]]
| shire_county             = [[East Sussex]]
| website                  = [http://www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk/ Town Council website]
}}

'''Peacehaven''' is a town and [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[Lewes (district)|Lewes district]] of [[East Sussex]], England. It is above the chalk cliffs of the [[South Downs]] about {{convert|6|mi|0}} east of [[Brighton]] city centre, on the [[A259 road]]. It is the place where the [[Prime Meridian|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]] [[tumulus|barrow]] (burial mound) near the cliff top, which has been under investigation by local societies.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.gos.gov.uk/gose/news/687560/ |title=Peacehaven's Ancient Mound reveals hidden secrets of prehistoric past |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081007231948/http://www.gos.gov.uk/gose/news/687560/ |archive-date=7 October 2008 |work=Events Diary |publisher=[[Government Offices for the English Regions|Government Office for the South East]] |date=12 May 2008 |access-date=16 October 2009}}</ref> The barrow is evidence of human occupation at Peacehaven at least 3,500 years ago. A 2007 excavation of the new [[Bovis Homes Group|Bovis Homes]] site west of [[Peacehaven Community School]]'s playing fields unearthed evidence for a [[prehistory|prehistoric]] settlement throughout the Bronze and [[Iron Age]]s.

Peacehaven was founded in 1916 by entrepreneur Charles Neville, who bought land in the parish of [[Piddinghoe]]. He founded a company to develop the site, and also eventually built nearby town of [[Saltdean]] and parts of [[Rottingdean]]).<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.saltdean.info/begsaltdean.htm |title=Beginning of Saltdean Today |access-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130102171400/http://www.saltdean.info/begsaltdean.htm |archive-date=2 January 2013}}</ref> He advertised it by setting up a competition in virtually every newspaper in England to name the development. The name of the winners who chose the name 'New Anzac-on-Sea' (to commemorate the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZAC]]'s involvement in the [[Gallipoli campaign|Battle of Gallipoli]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Justin |last=Hopper |title=The Old Weird Albion |publisher=Penned in the Margins |place=London |page=46 |date=2017 |isbn=978-1908058379}}</ref> were Mr West of [[Ilford]], Essex and Mr Kemp of [[Maidstone]], Kent.

The ''[[Daily Express]]'' later sued Neville over the competition, holding that it was a scam, since he was offering "free" plots of land in the town as runner-up prizes but issuing them only on the payment of a [[conveyancing]] fee. The ''Express'' won the case, but the publicity brought the scheme to a large audience. The idea was then to sell plots of land cheaply for people to build on themselves.

Initially, the town was New Anzac-on-Sea, but less than a year later, on 12 February 1917, it was renamed Peacehaven.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bernard |first=Stanley |year=2018 |title=A True History of the Two Nearly New Towns of Peacehaven and Telscombe |place=Storrington |publisher=Country Books |isbn=978-1910489628}}</ref>

In 1927, the directors of Peacehaven Estates Ltd, of South Coast Road, Peacehaven, and 7, [[Pall Mall, London|Pall Mall]], [[Westminster]], were [[Henry Roper-Curzon, 18th Baron Teynham|Lord Teynham]] (Chairman), CW Neville (managing director), and [[G. Kay Green]].<ref>{{cite book |year=1927 |title=The Directory of Directors for 1927 |place= |publisher=Thomas Skinner & Co |page=625}}</ref>

Although it has been claimed that the town was originally formed for retiring [[World War I]] veterans in order for them to escape and recover from the effects of the war, this is not proven. Mr Neville's publicity promoted the town as being an idyllic setting; sea air and simple lifestyle were thought to have aided good health. The land was also cheap and, as a result, working-class families from the city started to buy plots and gradually build makeshift homes for weekends and holidays. This movement of frontier-style buildings made with whatever materials were available at the time was called the [[Plotlands (land development)|plotlands movement]]. Inhabitants felt a sense of freedom in living off what they needed and enjoying a simpler life away from the busy, polluted city. The plotlands provided the working class an opportunity that might not have been available otherwise.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hardy |first1=D |last2=Ward |first2=C |year=1984 |title=Arcadia for All: The Legacy of Makeshift Landscape |place=London |publisher=Mansell Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-0720116793}}{{page needed|date=February 2025}}</ref>

By 1924, there were 3,000 people living in Peacehaven. Original houses were often very temporary affairs (some were old [[Coach (rail)|railway carriages]]). Others were constructed from former army huts, brought from North Camp near [[Seaford, East Sussex|Seaford]], a few of these still survive, having been given an outer concrete block wall (they can be identified by their oblong shape that tends to be end-on to the road). Eventually the local council invested in water and electrical services and so people started to build more substantial houses. After [[World War II]], the local council introduced a zoning scheme in order to distinguish areas for improvement along the coast road. In 1974 the ''Town Centre Map and Action Plan'' was formed to aid development.

There are two listed farmsteads in the town: Halcombe Farm House, built in the 17th century; and Hoddern Farm House, from the 18th century. Another old building is the Shepherds Cot; now part of a private house in The Compts in north Peacehaven. This tiny cabin was built in the 1880s to shelter shepherds in the lambing season.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

The popular singer and comedian [[Gracie Fields]] in 1933 set up at Peacehaven the Gracie Fields Children's Home and Orphanage, for children of those in the theatre profession who could not look after their children. She kept this until 1967, when the home was no longer needed. This was near her own home in [[Telscombe]], and Fields often visited, with the children all calling her 'Aunty Grace'.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091117190143/http://www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk/index.php/historic-peacehaven/famous-residents "Famous Residents"], Peacehaven Council</ref>

==Geography==
Peacehaven is on fairly flat coastal land, about {{convert|40|to|50|m|0|abbr=on}} [[Above mean sea level|above sea level]]. The pebble beach below the cliffs can be reached by a stairs and concrete driveway and sea walk. There is a number of green spaces along the A259 and the cliffs, one of which is called The Dell. A cinema formerly stood on this site, and now it holds events such as car boot sales, fireworks, fairgrounds, motorhome exhibitions, the Donkey Derby and an annual [[carnival]], except in 2005 when the carnival was held on the Joff field behind the Meridian shopping centre. In the 1950s, the carnival stalls were on the then vacant land on the NW corner of the South Coast Road (A259) and Dorothy Avenue.

Neville was influenced by the American grid system of planning. There were originally no "Streets" in Peacehaven; only "Roads" and "Avenues". With very few exceptions, "Roads" ran east to west, and "Avenues" north to south, most forming crossroads where they intersected the South Coast Road, which is now classified the A259. Apart from this road, Roderick Avenue, running roughly up the centre, was the only surfaced road (except for the area of Local Authority housing around Friars Avenue (north) in Peacehaven until the late 1950s, when the process of making-up the roads began. This started in Telscombe Cliffs and worked eastwards. As part of this, many of the Avenues had their junction with the main road blocked off to reduce the number of junctions and crossroads. The town still retains its original "grid" layout (apart from the newer development to the west called Telscombe Cliffs and above Firle Road): rectangular plots of land on both sides of the main road. Aerial photographs from the 1930s<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw054055?search=Peacehaven&ref=7 |title=Residential development, Peacehaven, from the south-east, 1937 – Britain from Above |access-date=26 May 2016 |archive-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160916115426/http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw054055?search=Peacehaven&ref=7 |url-status=live}}</ref> clearly show the "grid" pattern and, at that time, the scattered nature of the community.

[[File:PeacehavenCliffs.jpg|thumb|The chalk cliffs at Peacehaven]]
The parish includes part of the [[Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs]] [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]]. The cliffs are mainly of geological interest, containing many [[Santonian]] and [[Campanian]] fossils. The SSSI listing includes flora and fauna biological interest too.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1003033 |title=Natural England – SSSI |access-date=19 June 2008 |publisher=English Nature |archive-date=25 May 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110525075434/http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/sssi/sssi_details.cfm?sssi_id=1003033 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The point where the [[Prime meridian (Greenwich)|Prime meridian]] of the world crosses the coast is marked by a {{Convert|3.5|m|abbr=on}} tall [[obelisk]], commissioned by Charles Neville. It was unveiled on 10 August 1936, and has been relocated twice due to erosion of the cliffs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bridgewater |first=Peter |year=2007 |title=An Eccentric Tour of Sussex |place=Lewes |publisher=Snake River Press |isbn=978-1-906022-03-7 |pages=78–81}}</ref>

==Governance==
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Peacehaven's lowest tier of government is the Peacehaven Town Council who are responsible for local planning, highways and other amenities. The council consists of 17 elected councillors from three [[Ward (division)|wards]], North, West and East Peacehaven.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Notice_TownPar07.pdf |archive-url = https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20090727002122/http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Notice_TownPar07.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 July 2009 |title=Notice of Election |access-date=19 June 2008 |last=Crawford |first=John |date=19 March 2007 |publisher=Lewes District Council}}</ref> The May 2007 election returned 17 [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] councillors.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Results_TownParish.pdf |title=Results – Town and Parish Council Elections |access-date=19 June 2008 |date=3 May 2007 |pages=5–6 |publisher=Lewes District Council |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090225212044/http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Results_TownParish.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2009}}</ref>

The next level of government is [[Lewes (district)|Lewes District Council]] with responsibilities for the wider ranging areas such as council tax collection, environmental health and democratic services. Peacehaven provides six councillors to the district council, representing the same three wards as the parish council. Elections are held every four years, the May 2007 election returned six Conservative Party councillors;<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Results_District.pdf |title=Results – District Council Elections |access-date=3 July 2008 |date=3 May 2007 |pages=10–11 |publisher=Lewes District Council |archive-date=14 June 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110614020016/http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/Elections_Results_District.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> the May 2023 local elections returned six Labour Party councillors for these six seats.

The [[county council]] for East Sussex has responsibility for education, libraries, social services, civil registration, trading standards and transport. Elections for the county council are held every four years. Peacehaven parish is combined with the neighbouring Telscombe parish forming the Peacehaven & Telscombe Towns electoral division which elects two councillors to the council. The May 2013 election returned two [[UKIP]] councillors.

Peacehaven is in the [[Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven (UK Parliament constituency)|Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven]] constituency for the UK parliamentary elections. In the [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]] the seat was won by [[Chris Ward (British politician)|Chris Ward]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].

Prior to [[Brexit]] in 2020, Peacehaven was represented by the [[South East England (European Parliament constituency)|South East region]], in the [[European Parliament]].

==Economy and retail==
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[[File:PeacehavenMainStreet.jpg|thumb|The A259 through the town]]
Peacehaven is twinned with the French town of [[Épinay-sous-Sénart]] and the German town of [[Isernhagen]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Twin towns |url= https://new.eastsussex.gov.uk/community/local-information/towns-villages-local-land/twinning-towns |publisher=East Sussex County Council |access-date=7 April 2022}}</ref>

The [[The Co-operative (brand)|Co-operative]] Meridian Shopping Centre is in the town. There is also a leisure centre, several pubs, coffee shops, cafés and restaurants throughout the town.

==Religious buildings==
{{see also|List of places of worship in Lewes (district)}}
There are four churches in Peacehaven and one in Telscombe Cliffs. ''The Church of the Ascension'', build by L. Keir Hett to replace Peacehaven's [[Church of England parish church]], replaced a temporary building which had been built in 1922. The Roman Catholic Church, dedicated to the [[Immaculate Conception]], was also founded in a temporary building in the 1920s, which survives as the church hall of the present brick church. There are also an [[Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches|Evangelical Free Church]] and a Kingdom Hall of [[Jehovah's Witnesses]].<ref name="VCH56918">{{Cite book |editor-last=Salzman |editor-first=LF |editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman |year=1940 |chapter=Parishes: Piddinghoe |title=A History of the County of Sussex |volume=7: The Rape of Lewes |series=[[Victoria County History]] |pages=66–69 |place= |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] for the [[Institute of Historical Research]] |isbn=978-0712905893 |via=British History Online |url= https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp66-69}}</ref><ref name="PoW44">{{cite book |last=Elleray |first=D Robert |year=2004 |title=Sussex Places of Worship |place=Worthing |publisher=Optimus Books |isbn=0-9533132-7-1 |page=44}}</ref><ref name="PTC-Churches">{{cite web |url= http://www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk/index.php/useful-numbers-a-contacts |title=Schools & Churches |year=2009 |publisher=Peacehaven Town Council |access-date=7 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100220061000/http://www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk/index.php/useful-numbers-a-contacts |archive-date=20 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="PHCA">{{cite web |url= http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/plan_Peacehaven_EUS_reportpages13to23.pdf |title=Peacehaven Historic Character Assessment |last=Harris |first=Roland B |date=November 2004 |work=Sussex Extensive Urban Survey (EUS) |publisher=East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council, Brighton and Hove City Council and [[English Heritage]] |access-date=7 April 2010 |archive-date=14 June 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110614021034/http://www.lewes.gov.uk/Files/plan_Peacehaven_EUS_reportpages13to23.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> Telscombe Cliffs United Reformed Church serves the population of both communities.<ref name="PTC-Churches"/>

==Education==
The town has one secondary school, [[Peacehaven Community School]]. There are also three primary schools: Peacehaven Heights Primary School, Meridian Primary School, and Telscombe Cliffs Primary School and Nursery. The library in the Meridian Centre hosts various training talks for adults and educational activities for children, as well as hosting a regular citizens' advice bureau.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

==Media==
Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC South East]] and [[ITV Meridian]]. Television signals are received from the [[Whitehawk Hill transmitting station|Whitehawk Hill]] TV transmitter<ref>{{cite web |url= https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Whitehawk_Hill |title=Full Freeview on the Whitehawk Hill (Brighton and Hove, England) transmitter |date=1 May 2004 |website=UK Free TV |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> and the local relay transmitter in [[Newhaven, East Sussex|Newhaven]].<ref>{{cite web |url= https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Newhaven |title=Freeview Light on the Newhaven (East Sussex, England) transmitter
|date=1 May 2004 |website=UK Free TV |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>

Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Sussex]] on 95.0 FM, [[Heart South]] on 96.9 FM, and [[Seahaven FM]], a community based station which broadcasts to the town on 96.3 FM.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.seahavenfm.radio/about/#:~:text=Seahaven%20FM%20is%20the%20local,Seaford%2C%20Stone%20Cross%20and%20Westham. |title=Seahaven FM|access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>

The town's local newspapers are the ''Sussex Express''<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/sussex-express/ |title=Sussex Express |date=18 January 2014 |website=British Papers |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref> and ''[[The Argus (Brighton)|The Argus]]'' (formerly the ''South Coast Leader'').<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-se/south-coast-leader/ |title=South Coast Leader |date=27 January 2014 |website=British Papers |access-date=7 December 2023}}</ref>

==Sport and leisure==
Peacehaven has a [[Non-League football]] club [[Peacehaven & Telscombe F.C.]] who play at the Sports Park. Each summer, the club hosts various football tournaments, ranging from age under 10 to under 16. There is also a small leisure centre and a bowls club<ref name="W L S">{{cite web |url= http://www.waveleisure.co.uk/peacehaven-leisure-centre |title=Wave Leisure Centre |access-date=12 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130316024831/http://www.waveleisure.co.uk/peacehaven-leisure-centre |archive-date=16 March 2013}}</ref><ref name=PTBC>{{cite web |url= http://www.peacehavenbowlsclub.talktalk.net |title=Peacehaven & Telscombe Bowls Club |access-date=12 March 2013 |archive-date=19 January 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130119084732/http://www.peacehavenbowlsclub.talktalk.net/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and dance schools such as Harlequin and Studio 54, as well as football and martial arts clubs.

Several special interest groups operate. The [[Women's Institutes|Women's Institute]] meets regularly at the Meridian Centre along with various other community groups.{{cn|date=March 2022}}

Delivered on 30 acres of land given over by [[Southern Water]] and funded by financial contributions from Southern Water and Bovis Homes a new community led recreation destination 'The Big Parks Project' was completed in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Big Parks Project – Peacehaven |url= http://bigparksproject.org.uk/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |language=en-US |archive-date=3 August 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200803205934/http://bigparksproject.org.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref> Designed by architects Kaner Olette and engineers HOP & Crofton Consulting, the project includes a central activity café, children’s playgrounds, new cycle paths, skate park, and sports facilities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Peacehaven Big Parks by Kaner Olette Architects |url= http://kanerolette.co.uk/peacehaven/|access-date=2020-10-09|website=kanerolette.co.uk|archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200928075325/http://www.kanerolette.co.uk/peacehaven/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sustainable Design {{!}} Big Parks Peacehaven {{!}} Crofton Consulting |url= https://crofton.consulting/case-study/sustainable-design-big-parks-peacehaven/|access-date=2020-10-09 |website=crofton.consulting |archive-date=23 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210123090804/https://crofton.consulting/case-study/low-carbon-engineering-big-parks-peacehaven/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Big Parks Project, Peacehaven – HOP Consulting |url= https://www.hop.uk.com/project/big-parks-project-peacehaven/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |archive-date=27 November 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201127140917/https://www.hop.uk.com/project/big-parks-project-peacehaven/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The project has received many accolades since it was completed, including Constructing Excellence Sustainability Award – Winner 2015;<ref>{{Cite web |title=CE London and South East Awards 2015 Winners announced – Constructing Excellence |date=3 July 2015 |url= https://constructingexcellence.org.uk/ce-london-and-south-east-awards-2015-winners-announced/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |archive-date=10 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201010200610/https://constructingexcellence.org.uk/ce-london-and-south-east-awards-2015-winners-announced/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Architects Journal Retrofit Award – Winner 2015;<ref>{{Cite web|title=2015 AJ Retrofit Winners {{!}} AJ Retrofit Awards |url= https://retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk/2015-aj-retrofit-winners |access-date=9 October 2020 |website=retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk |archive-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201031022149/https://retrofit.architectsjournal.co.uk/2015-aj-retrofit-winners|url-status=live}}</ref> RIBA South East Award – Winner 2016;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gateway Cafe, Peacehaven |url= https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/gateway-cafe-peacehaven |access-date=2020-10-09 |website=www.ribaj.com |date= 28 April 2016 |archive-date=23 October 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201023021022/https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/gateway-cafe-peacehaven |url-status=live}}</ref> Sussex Heritage Trust Public & Community – Highly Commended 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2016 Awards: Public and Community – Sussex Heritage Trust |url= https://www.sussexheritagetrust.org.uk/index.php/2016-awards-public-and-community/ |access-date=9 October 2020 |archive-date=28 September 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200928034032/https://www.sussexheritagetrust.org.uk/index.php/2016-awards-public-and-community/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Peacehaven in film and fiction==
The town plays a part in [[Graham Greene]]'s 1938 novel ''[[Brighton Rock (novel)|Brighton Rock]].<ref>see Brighton Rock,1938, Part 7, chapter 9</ref>''

The 1979 film ''[[Quadrophenia (film)|Quadrophenia]]'' starring Phil Daniels in the leading role as a [[Mod (subculture)|mod]] named Jimmy also ended up in Peacehaven. At the end of the film he finds out his idol, the suave mod "poster boy" Ace Face (played by [[Sting (musician)|Sting]]), is in reality a [[Bellhop|bellboy]]. He steals Ace's [[Scooter (motorcycle)|scooter]] and heads out to Peacehaven Cliffs and an uncertain fate.

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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Now for the Tiffany tour |url= http://archive.theargus.co.uk/1999/2/6/198859.html |newspaper=The Argus |date=6 February 1999 |access-date=18 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070929103048/http://archive.theargus.co.uk/1999/2/6/198859.html |archive-date=29 September 2007}}</ref>

[[Miodrag Kojadinović]] 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 language|Serbian]]<ref>[http://polja.rs/polja485/index485.htm with ''Polja''] {{webarchive |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150326025701/http://polja.rs/polja485/index485.htm |date=26 March 2015}}</ref> and [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]],<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.hid.rs/archivum.php?page=1489 |title=in ''Híd'' |access-date=26 March 2015 |archive-date=22 March 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150322062907/http://www.hid.rs/archivum.php?page=1489 |url-status=live}}</ref> both out of [[Novi Sad]].

==Music==
[[Punk rock|Punk]] band [[Peter and the Test Tube Babies]] formed in Peacehaven in 1978, and recall calling themselves the Banchood group for a short period.<ref>{{cite book |last=Glasper |first=Ian |year=2014 |title=Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980–1984 |place=Binghamton |publisher=[[PM Press]] |isbn=978-1604867480 |page=357}}</ref>

==International relations==

Peacehaven is [[sister city|twinned]] with:
*[[Épinay-sous-Sénart]], France
*[[Isernhagen]], Germany

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Peacehaven}}
* [https://www.gravitate.agency/ Gravitate Agency (formerly GreenerPages )| Local community directory and BN10 business development website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050412161802/http://www.history-peacehaven-telscombe.org.uk/index.asp History of Peacehaven]
* [http://www.peacehavencouncil.co.uk/ Peacehaven Town Council]
* [http://www.peacehavenchamber.co.uk/ Peacehaven Chamber of Commerce]
* [http://www.peacehaven.me.uk Photographs of Peacehaven]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050323234535/http://peacehaven.co.uk/ www.peacehaven.co.uk]

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