In Constable’s Route Variations Local Information City Walk In Constable’s footsteps To Windmill Pub: Instead of Distance A turning left into Victoria Road Approximately 4¼ miles. Returns to continue on down Clifton Place the start point. footsteps ignoring the first left, turn left at the This distance doesn’t include trip to first crossroads with Upper North Beacon Mill, Rottingdean (3 miles by Street and the Windmill Pub is about City Walk bus, 1 mile walking). 50 yards on your left. Return the same way and rejoin Victoria Road and Time continue from 5 2½ hours, without stops. Suggested time to allow is 3 hours. To return to Brighton B Museum: If you wish to return Time does not include trip to Beacon to Brighton Museum now, turn Mill, Rottingdean (30 minutes bus, left to find the bus stop ‘Waitrose’ on 30 minutes walking). your right (opposite Gothic House), Terrain board a Brighton & Hove Buses bus Fairly flat especially along the seafront. nos. 1, 5, 5A, 5B, 25, 46, or 49, get However, the city expanded on to off at ‘North Street’ and make your the surrounding hilly countryside so way left through the Royal Pavilion there are two steep climbs, up to St Garden to Brighton Museum. Nicholas’ Church and up Guildford Road but these are no more than To Beacon Mill, Rottingdean: 100 yards each. C If you wish to visit Beacon Mill, John Constable by Daniel Maclise the windmill in the background Suggested refreshment stops Pencil, 1881 © National Portrait Gallery, London of Constable’s Chain Pier painting, The Garden Café in St Ann’s Well find a bus stop called ‘Sea Life Centre, Gardens. The Meeting Place Café by stop K’ about 250 yards on your the Peace Statue on the seafront. Lion You can see sketches and right (north of the Sealife Centre & Lobster pub, corner of Bedford Place paintings that Constable made near Charles Street) and board a and Sillwood Street. Plenty of bars and of the local area on display in the Brighton & Hove Buses bus nos. 12, restaurants along the beach and along Constable and Brighton exhibition 12A, 14, 14C, 27 and request/alight North Street. at the stop called ‘The Windmill’. Just at Brighton Museum & Art ahead of the stop is a path on the Public toilets Gallery, 8 April – 8 October 2017. left through a gate up to Beacon Hub Southern part of Royal Pavilion Garden This circular sightseeing Café Kiosk (open Thursday-Sunday) (northern end of Princes Place); Visit our website for further tour explores the artist John and the windmill beyond. There is a St Ann’s Well Gardens; Beacon Hub information Constable’s time in Brighton. circuit of about half a mile that can be Café, Rottingdean. www.brightonmuseums.org.uk completed on the grass to the west of Bus services Visit the streets where the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery the windmill. Return back to the road. All buses referred to are operated by Admission fee payable, members free It is not safe to cross the busy coast windmills he painted once stood, road here so turn left and walk into Brighton & Hove Buses. Visit stroll along the seafront that gave Royal Pavilion Gardens, Brighton Rottingdean, cross over at the traffic www.buses.co.uk for full details on services, timetable and fares or visit him so much inspiration and pass BN1 1EE Tel 03000 290900 lights opposite the White Horse pub by several of the buildings he and turn right to walk up to the bus 1 Stop Travel, 26 North Street, Open Tue – Sun 10am-5pm, stop ‘White Horse’. Board a bus back Brighton BN1 1EB. would have known. Closed Mon (except Bank Holidays to Brighton and return to point 13. Or Other places to visit to walk back turn left in front of the Perhaps bring a sketchbook along 10am-5pm) West Blatchington Windmill, Holmes pub after crossing, then right, down Avenue, Hove BN3 7LE. Open and capture your own views of to the beach, and take the Undercliff May-September on Sundays and the scene today. It’s also a great Walk on your Bank Holidays only, 2.30-5pm. chance to uncover plenty of local right (about Charges apply. 3½ miles). Brighton & Hove history. Useful local information Brighton & Hove City Council: Much has changed over the www.brighton-hove.gov.uk last 200 years – so use your imagination to capture the scene! Constable's Left: Cornfields with windmills near paint box, Brighton, c1824 by John Constable. c1824-1837 Private collection Image © Gainsborough's Cover: A mill near Brighton, c1829-32, The Barleycorn House Society David Lucas after John Constable. Trust Mezzotint engraving Image courtesy of Peter Booth 6 5 4 3 2 In about 100 yards as you On reaching the third Turn left and as you walk At the end of West Hill Road After 270 yards at the pass Windlesham Road you crossroads with Montpelier downhill admire a good view turn left, walk along Dyke Road first crossroads with Upper In Constable’s are crossing over a former town Road/B2122 look ahead over to of the i360 ahead. If you are in for 300 yards, turn right and walk Gloucester Road go straight boundary, leaving Brighton to the right to see a large detached need of refreshments visit The along Powis Grove. After 140 ahead along Buckingham footsteps enter Hove. In 230 yards cross building now part of Brighton Windmill Pub, named after yards at the first crossroads with Street. At the end of this road, over York Avenue and go straight & Hove High School. Originally Vine's Mill, see A (overleaf). Powis Villas is where Vine's Mill turn left uphill into Guildford on down Furze Hill. called The Temple, this was Otherwise, take the first turning once stood, in the gardens behind Road. (If starting at Brighton City Walk the isolated home of Sussex on your right, Victoria Road. the flint wall on the right. Station, exit the main entrance, MP and builder of Kemp Town turn right up Guildford Road and Thomas Read Kemp. His sister join the walk here). In 60 yards at 7 Mrs Ann Sober owned the house the T-junction turn right and then In 175 yards opposite flats Constable lived in, which we will immediately turn left into West called Wick Hall turn right up see later. Continue straight over Brighton Station Hill Road, where Hodson’s Mill West Hill Road into a park called St Ann’s Well into Temple Gardens. 3 used to be. Gardens – create your own route Guildford Road to explore this area but return to Dyke Road Albert Road 7 this point to continue. 6 Temple Gardens Be sure to find the St Ann’s 2 Furze Hill 5 Well itself as Constable did many Victoria Road paintings from this viewpoint 4 Powis Grove Recommended start which included gorse (furze) 1 Queens Road bushes. With your back to the entrance of Brighton Museum, turn left Carry on down Furze Hill. Cross towards the William IV Gate. Go over to Landsdowne Road and North Road right around it and turn left into then down Brunswick Place St Nicholas Road Brighton beach, early morning Lansdowne Road Church Street. Carry on for 500 – you are aiming straight for after a wet night, c1825 by John Constable. Royal Pavilion & yards. Cross over Queens Road the beach now. Cross over busy Dyke Road Museums, Brighton & Hove. and continue on uphill, still on Western Road, down the side St Nicholas Church The Gothic House, (Sillwood Church Street. St Nicholas’ Church of Brunswick Square, use the Place with Western Lodge), 1824 by John Constable. Private 9 begins to appear on your left. At traffic lights to cross the coast 10 Church Street collection. the top take the last turning on road and take the path between your right, St Nicholas Road, grassy Hove Lawns to meet the Western Road Bedford Place before you exit Church Street. promenade. The pebbly beach is 1 Sillwood Rd Little Preston St Brunswick Squaree Houses at Hampstead, just a stone's throw ahead. The Dome (undated) by John 11 Constable. Private collection. Kings Road In spite of its title, this painting may actually depict Brighton North Street 15 Peace Statue as seen from the window of his 8 studio at 9 Sober's Gardens. Cross over to the Royal Royal Pavilion Albion Hotel, turn right back Bandstand Preston Street into the Old Steine. Keep left Grand Hotel and continue on past the Royal i360 Old Steine Pavilion until you reach the 8 12 Kings Road This view of Hove beach Brighton beach, rainy weather, c1825 William IV Gate and Brighton by John Constable. Royal Pavilion & especially looking west towards 9 After the next crossroads, Museums, Brighton & Hove. Museum. Shoreham was a popular subject 15 the Gothic House stands on 11 of Constable. At the bottom turn left and your right (a better view is from left again into Little Preston Marine Parade Facing the sea, turn left towards outside Waitrose opposite). Street, now generally believed 14 a monument known at the Peace The little cul-de-sac of Western to be the location of Constable’s 13 Statue 200 yards away, another Terrace, a little further along on ‘Houses at Hampstead’ and the boundary marker between Hove the same side, hides the Western view from the back of his studio. 14 and Brighton. Stay on the path 12 Pavilion, dating from the early Continue up to meet Western Steps next to the i360 take you After 250 yards turn left up nearest the beach.