A picturesque former smuggling village on the coast east of Brighton, with a historic High Street, village pond, and Kipling connections. BN2.
Rottingdean is a picturesque former smuggling village on the coast to the east of Brighton, set in a gap in the chalk cliffs where a dry valley reaches the sea. Its historic High Street, village pond and green, and the church of St Margaret's with its Burne-Jones windows give it one of the prettiest and most intact village centres anywhere on the Sussex coast.
The village has strong literary and artistic connections: Rudyard Kipling lived at The Elms on the green, the painter Sir William Nicholson and others worked here, and the Grange houses a small museum and gallery. Independent shops, tea rooms and pubs line the High Street, while the seafront below connects to Brighton Marina and Saltdean along the Undercliff Walk at the foot of the cliffs.