Last Alteration: Sunday 07 April 2013
Birling Manor Farm
Birling Manor Farm
Birling Gap Road, East Dean, East Sussex, BN20 0AA
Birling Manor Farm is now owned by the Beachy Head Brewing Company, which started up on the 31st October 2006. The adjacent Seven Sisters Sheep Centre used to be part of the farm. Birling Manor itself is available for weddings.
How to get here from Seven Sisters Country Park:
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Road: Turn right out of the country park carpark and head towards East Dean. Once in the village, turn right onto Gilbert's Drive and then follow the road down to the Sheep Centre and the farm as the road bends right onto Birling Gap Road. (3.3 miles, 7m) +
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Roadside.
This location is private and has no or limited access only. The farm is private, but you can walk around the outside along Birling Gap Road, or follow the bridlepath around the other side.
Access: privateStatus: unknownFarm buildings
Photograph taken: 8th March 2007 by Chuck Foster
The War Games (1)
Filmed: 2 Apr 1969
The Doctor spies on the farm through some binoculars.
Additional Notes:
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The southern part of the manor farm now forms part of the guest houses for weddings; it isn't possible to tell how the buildings lay in that area. The chimney on the manor house seems the only focal point.
Access: privateStatus: recognisableBarn
Photograph taken: 8th March 2007 by Chuck Foster
The War Games (2)
Filmed: 1 Apr 1969
Jamie and the Redcoat try to make their escape.
Additional Notes:
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This is the only recognisable building visible from the roadside (at a 90° angle); you can see it roughly as filmed from the bridlepath on the far side of the farm.
Other nearby locations:
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Seven Sisters Country Park (The War Games). Road (3.3 miles, 7m) : Head north along Gilbert's Drive into East Dean, then turn left onto the A259.
Follow this along until you reach the country park on the right. Car park for the country park. Price: £2.00 for two hours.
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Eastbourne Waterboard Road (The War Games). Road (1.6 miles, 5m) : Head north along Gilbert's Drive into East Dean, then turn left onto the A259.
turn right into
Old Willingdon Road, and then bear left onto Jevington Road.
There is a forest car park just along on the left. Friston car park (£1.50)
Additional locations as the crow flies:
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The Lane (The War Games): 2.96 miles. 
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Telscombe Cliffs (The Trial of a Time Lord ("Mindwarp")): 11.02 miles.
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Sheepcote Valley (The War Games): 14.48 miles.
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Brighton Beach (The Leisure Hive): 16.06 miles.
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