Views of Brighton and Hove #6. This view looks north-northwestwards from the south end of Ryde Road, a residential street running north from the major road Elm Grove. Features (click to enlarge):

• The housing estate running right across the midground and background consists of the later (1970s/1980s) northeastern extension of Hollingdean. The four-storey blocks at the front are around Tavistock Down (50°50′38″N 0°07′25″W / 50.8438°N 0.1236°W / 50.8438; -0.1236), the long dark-red terraces are in Uplands Road (50°51′17″N 0°07′26″W / 50.8548°N 0.1240°W / 50.8548; -0.1240), and the smaller houses behind are in Lynchet Close (50°50′54″N 0°07′20″W / 50.8482°N 0.1222°W / 50.8482; -0.1222), the very edge of the estate.
• Behind them is Hollingbury Golf Course and the site of Hollingbury Fort, which is actually much higher than the surrounding land despite the flattening effect of the zoom.
• The large expanse of greenery in the foreground, with the roofs behind it, is the Brighton and Preston Cemetery. The roofs belong to houses in Bear Road (50°50′14″N 0°07′04″W / 50.8373°N 0.1178°W / 50.8373; -0.1178). A small number of graves can just be made out above the chimneys in the bottom right (which belong to houses on Hartington Road; the cemetery is bounded by Hartington and Bear Roads to the south and north respectively).

This photograph indicates how deep the Lewes Road valley is, and how high the Elm Grove and Hollingdean areas are in contrast. The elevation of the point at which the picture was taken is about 88 feet (27 m); even though Ryde Road is quite short, it has already dropped to about 68 feet (21 m) by the other end. Bear Road (midground; roofs are just visible) rises steeply from left to right; at the centre of the photograph it is at about 60 feet (18 m). The Coombe Road residential area, which "should" be right in the centre of the picture, is completely swallowed up because its elevation is about 50 feet (15 m). The next buildings that are visible, the rows of houses in Hollingdean in the background, then rise steadily from about 80 feet (24 m) to over 110 feet (34 m), and the open ground of Hollingbury Golf Course in the background rises to a peak of 178 feet (54 m). Lewes Road follows the tree line in front of the Hollingdean houses; it lies along the valley floor, and its elevation appears to be only 25 feet (7.6 m).

Camera location	50° 49′ 54.34″ N, 0° 07′ 02.02″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	50.831760; -0.117227