Brian Cheshire (Letters, October 22) twice refers to Woodingdean as a village. I think most Brightonians would find this description laughable as, unlike Rottingdean or Ovingdean, it has never been a village.
Furthermore, it is far too big to be a village, having a population greater than the town of Lewes.
All the development is post-1900, the vast majority of which took place after it became part of the County Borough of Brighton in 1928.
The name comes from a farm, formerly called Woodendean Farm, which had existed north-east of Ovingdean for more than 200 years.
What is wrong in calling it what it truly is, a suburb or district?
Peter Bailey
-Brighton
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