New book about Polegate, 'the Cinderella town of Sussex'

Polegate is a town that rarely appears in books about Sussex villages and towns but it was important to the Romans and the Saxons and, in the mid nineteenth century, to the London and Brighton South Coast Railway who made it the junction for their services between Brighton, Hastings and Eastbourne.

Local historian Warwick Davis has written about how Polegate grew from a small hamlet to a proud and vibrant town. There weren't any major historic sites in the town but it did have windmills, the first Centenary field and, of course, the Treacle mines.

Warwick has written several books about Eastbourne's history and likes to use contemporary sources such as old newspapers as his main sources of information.

He now turns his attention to Polegate. Read about how the town continued to grow after the importance of the railway faded, looking at the people and the places in the town and how Polegate deserves its place on the map and in the history books. The book costs £9 (plus £2 postage) and is available by emailing [email protected]