A former Sussex village on the northern edge of the city, with a historic flint-cottage core and settled suburban streets below the Downs. BN1.
Patcham is a former village on the northern edge of Brighton, absorbed into the city in the 1920s but still keeping the feel of an old Sussex settlement around its historic core. Old Patcham, with its flint cottages, the medieval All Saints Church and the great tithe barn, sits just off the main London Road as it climbs towards the South Downs.
Beyond the old village, Patcham is a large, settled residential suburb of interwar and post-war housing, bordered by open downland and the A27. It is best known to passing travellers for the Patcham Pylon gateway marking the entrance to the city, and to residents for its good schools, its proximity to the Downs for walking, and its quiet, family-oriented streets well away from the seafront crowds.