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Blacklands, Hastings — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Blacklands is a district of Hastings marked by Christ Church and The Pilot Field, with the town's castle and museum a short trip away.
About Blacklands
Where to stay in Blacklands
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Blacklands keeps its beds off the seafront. Rooms here are residential rather than commercial, so most visitors take the short run into central Hastings for something near Robertson Street or Wellington Square, then come back out for a match at The Pilot Field. Christ Church marks the middle of the district.
Staying near it puts Hastings Castle and the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery within an easy trip of a quiet street.
About Blacklands
What are the main landmarks in Blacklands?
The Pilot Field is the local ground. Christ Church serves the district itself, while the roll of landmarks Blacklands shares with central Hastings reaches from Hastings Castle and the Collegiate Church of St Mary through to the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. Older churches crowd the streets nearby.
Holy Trinity Church, the Church of St Clement, and Robertson Street United Reformed Church stand among them, and Lionsdown House with Holmdene keeps the domestic end of the list.
What is the history of Blacklands?
Blacklands holds no charter of its own. Its history runs with the town's, from Hastings Castle and the Collegiate Church of St Mary with its Ladies' Parlour to the numbered houses of the High Street that still carry the older frontages. Chapels multiplied later.
Wellington Square Baptist Church, Robertson Street United Reformed Church, and the church of English Martyrs at St Leonards-on-Sea record the congregations that came after them. Photography left an address too, at the Former Memorial Photographic Studios.
Where is Blacklands?
The district meets Hastings at the older streets of the town, the High Street, Robertson Street, and Wellington Square among them.
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Updated August 2026