Lower Bevendean Estate, Brighton, c1953

Bevendean has existed as a settlement since at least medieval times: it is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. The area has long been divided into two estates. Upper Bevendean is the area on the hill approaching Moulsecoomb; Lower Bevendean is the section in the valley.

Bevendean was not wholly incorporated into the Borough of Brighton until 1928, although Brighton Corporation purchased the Lower Bevendean estate in 1913. The Lower Bevendean housing estate was built as part of the post-war wave of housing development in the early 1950s.

View photographs of the Lower Bevendean estate.