The area was once locally notorious, like nearby Peacehaven, for the shacks that were put up on these plots, whose architectural styles ranged from Wooden Hut to Railway Carriage Body.

The most notable thing about Woodingdean is its magnificent views to the south over the Downs to the English Channel and the number of pleasant walks there are to do in the area.

In modern times it has been a place of arable stubbles, but there be a good array of chalk loving plants such as henbit deadnettle, field madder, round-leaved fluellen and common fumitory.

It’s rough and derelict, but special wildlife clings on and there are big swarms of Pride of Sussex rampion, dropwort, horseshoe vetch and hairy violet.

[6] To the west of the Falmer Road is Happy Valley, (TQ 357 047), a bushy, cattle-grazed slope with old Down pasture herbs, bits of gorse and thorn.

The field has a cluster of at least twenty-seven small low grassy mounds, which are probably Saxon, and three larger, probably Bronze Age barrows on the top of the hill just south of the bridleway fence line.