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Hangleton, Brighton — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Hangleton is a hilltop suburb of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, where St Helen's Church keeps fabric from the 12th century.
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Visitors bed down among the housing that filled Hangleton in the 1930s. Anyone staying up here trades the pull of central Brighton and Hove for quiet evenings and a parish church that has stood since long before the estate arrived. Hounsom Memorial Church stands among them.
Rooms near St Helen's Church suit walkers heading for Round Hill and the barrow above the estate.
About Hangleton
What are the main landmarks in Hangleton?
Five of the six entries are churches. St Helen's Church holds the oldest fabric, while Hounsom Memorial Church and Bishop Hannington Memorial Church carry the memorial names of later parishes, and St Peter's Church, West Blatchington and St Nicolas Church, Portslade stand on neighbouring ground. Round Hill carries the older marker.
A section of Port's Road and a barrow on Round Hill are protected together, the oldest thing on the parish record.
What is the history of Hangleton?
The parish is far older. Its church was founded in the 11th century and keeps 12th-century fabric, while the medieval manor house counts as Hove's oldest secular building, and the village emptied in the medieval era with the church left in ruins. Building resumed once the Borough of Hove took Hangleton in.
The streets of the 1930s covered the hilltop, and the ruined walls at St Helen's Church were left standing among them.
Where is Hangleton?
Hangleton keeps the hilltop ground of an old parish inside Brighton and Hove, with a barrow on Round Hill at its crown.
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Updated September 2026