South Heighton

South Heighton
Sussex
Location
Grid reference:	TQ448027
Location:	50°48’36"N, -0°3’0"E
Data
Population:	990  (parish, 2011)
Post town:	Newhaven
Postcode:	BN9
Dialling code:	01273
Local Government
Council:	Lewes
Parliamentary constituency:	Lewes
Website:	http://www.southheighton.org/

South Heighton is a village in Sussex. The village is seven miles south of Lewes. In the 1890s the village's population grew from less than 100 to over 500 after a cement manufacturing plant opened nearby. The village is now associated with the urbanised area of Newhaven.

There is no place called North Heighton although part of the South Downs above the village is called Heighton Hill, from which one can get to Norton, which lies north-east of South Heighton, and north of Bishopstone.

The village a regular thoroughfare and point of rest for ramblers, and features a series of ponds, known locally as 'The Three Lakes', which were until the early 1990s open to the public. It remains a popular destination for local visitors, with its public house, The Hampden Arms, and until recently, its corner-shop and post office, which has now closed and been converted into a residential dwelling. South Heighton is one of many villages in the area which maintains a bonfire society, celebration and parade.

South Heighton is famous for its secret tunnels, built and used for defence during the Second World War, which lie underneath most of the village, with the main entrance at Denton House. In 1998, when work finished on the conversion of Denton House into flats and of the surrounding area into houses, the road was called Forward Close, after HMS Forward, a shore establishment associated with Newhaven and the tunnels,

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