Publications
The Hunns Mere Pit: Story of Woodingdean and Balsdean, by Peter Mercer and Douglas Holland, published 1 November 1993 (273 pp., Book Guild Publishing, ISBN-10: 0863328520 & ISBN-13: 9780863328527) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Woodingdean 2000, Reflections and the Millennium, by Peter Mercer, published 2000 (Woodingdean Community Association) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Hunns Mere Way: The Untold Story of Woodingdean, by Peter Mercer, published 7 December 2010 (190 pp., Seaford: S. B. Publications, ISBN-10: 1857703626 & ISBN-13: 9781857703627) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:This is the final chapter of the story of Woodingdean. With nearly 200 photographs, maps and pictures - many of which have never been seen before. This book describes the untold history and the stories of the village. It tells the curious history of the Wick Valley, of Percy Harveys's Downs Estate and why Harold Price and Eustace Gibson joined the parish council to get Rottingdean its name. It also includes the story of the Selbach's, owners of much of the village land and Balsdean, along with their plans and aspirations to build a sanatorium and medical staff accommodation, of their long fight and arbitratration with the Corporation, their despair and final misery. Other chapters describe how Rottingdean became a parish, the pictorial history of the cross roads, Balsdean in pictures and some of the stories of the early settlers. It also tells of a link between the Volks Railway and the orphanage at Warren Farm School and provides the name of every well digger engaged in sinking the well.
This is the third and final book by Peter Mercer on the village of Woodingdean.
This is the third and final book by Peter Mercer on the village of Woodingdean.