Image: Views of Brighton - Panorama Westwards from Tenantry Down (December 2013) (1)

Description: Views of Brighton and Hove #11. An approximately 120° panorama of Brighton, looking almost due westwards from Tenantry Down (the triangle of land between Tenantry Down Road, Bear Road and Warren Road), near the 463-foot summit of Race Hill. This was a bright day, but heavy cloud came in from the northwest (towards the right of the picture). Almost the whole of Brighton is laid out in this six-picture panorama. The city centre occupies the leftmost quarter; prominent on the skyline are Chartwell Court, Sussex Heights and the Bedford Hotel. Next come the offices in the Queen's Road area, followed by Brighton railway station—in front of which is the toweringly tall St Bartholomew's Church. Behind above the station are the houses of West Hill, and also just visible is the roofline of another tall Victorian church—St Michael and All Angels in the Montpelier district. To the right (north) is the new mixed-use development of the New England Quarter, built in the early 21st century on the site of the Brighton railway works. On the skyline beyond the carriage sheds on the Brighton Main Line (long gabled building) are the densely packed houses of Prestonville, and two of its landmark buildings: St Luke's Church and the Stanford Road School. In front of this, and very prominent in the foreground, are the hilly, curved streets of the Round Hill district. The large buildings in the centre of the picture are in Hollingdean: the curved industrial building is the Veolia waste transfer facility, and the tower blocks are Nettleton Lodge (left) and Dudeney Court (right), both built in 1966. The rest of the housing on the right side of the picture is also part of the Hollingdean estate. The more distant housing is around Preston Park and Preston Village. Hollingbury Hill, which rises to 583 feet, is on the far right. Some of Brighton's cemeteries and crematoria can also be seen closer to the camera. In front of the hedge are the Brighton and Preston Cemetery (privately operated) and the Woodvale Cemetery and Crematorium (council-owned). The spire-topped flint and brick chapel is in the Brighton and Preston Cemetery. Just visible above the hedge is the top of the spire of the Woodvale Crematorium. The red chimney in the centre foreground belongs to the Downs Crematorium. All of the trees in the foreground are in the cemeteries. The cemetery visible in the right foreground behind the flint wall is the Bear Road Cemetery. Bear Road itself runs in front of the wall. The area of dense terraced housing behind and to the left of the Brighton and Preston Cemetery is in the Elm Grove area. The saddleback tower of this area's former church, St Wilfrid's, is visible in the centre towards the left. Even further left of that is more terraced housing; this is in the Hanover area. Camera location 50° 50′ 06.97″ N, 0° 06′ 27.48″ W  View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 50.835270; -0.107632
Title: Views of Brighton - Panorama Westwards from Tenantry Down (December 2013) (1)
Credit: Own work
Author: The Voice of Hassocks
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Zero, Public Domain Dedication
License: CC0
License Link: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en
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