Dyke Road

North of Highcroft Villas

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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f) NORTH of HIGHCROFT VILLAS : No.238 Dyke Road, at the corner of Wincombe Road, has a plaster decoration of the Southern League Championship Shield in its western gable, and a replica of the F.A. Charity Shield in its southern gable, both painted in blue and white. The house was built in about 1910 for Noah Clark, a director of Brighton and Hove Albion F.C. which won both trophies in that year. {214}
The Church of the Good Shepherd , built by E.P.Warren in 1920-2, has a prominent tower with additions at the rear of 1927; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Alice Moor in memory of her late husband Gerald, Vicar of Preston. There is a small war memorial chapel to the north-east of the nave. The adjacent church hall was opened on 15 July 1936 by Major George Tryon, M.P. {45,311}
The road continues northwards from Tivoli Crescent North as Dyke Road Avenue, a road lined with large, late-Victorian and Edwardian villas together with more recent suburban development. Tongdean Farm once stood at the junction of Dyke Road Avenue and Hill Brow, but some old farm cottages remain at The Spinney. The Dyke crossroads on Red Hill will be the site of an interchange on the Brighton bypass, the Devil's Dyke Road bridging the new highway which will run through a deep cutting. The road then continues towards Saddlescombe and Devil's Dyke (q.v.). {83,123}

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