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Contents 1 Whitbread Hollow 2 List of State Schools 2.1 Rearrangement of List 3 Merging of Meads with E'bne article

[edit] Whitbread Hollow

(also known as Whitbread Hole)

In Sport we have: "There was once a small race-course in Whitbread Hollow (now St Bede's school playing fields)." This may be correct but there is no citation and I have no means of checking right now. There was a racecourse higher up on the Downs. Does anyone know where this statement came from? Mikeo1938 (talk) 21:41, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

The above has been fixed. It was indeed at Bullock Down.Mikeo1938 (talk) 10:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of State Schools

Do we need to list every school. Apart from being a much frowned upon list, it is also a list of broken links. ++ MortimerCat (talk) 09:06, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Could we put them all into a footnote? Footnotes do not have to be exclusively for citations; then we could include the correct websites. The websites are not always apparent from the name of the school; for example, St John's CE in Meads is http://www.meads.e-sussex.sch.uk/ Mikeo1938 (talk) 10:24, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rearrangement of List

I've just rearranged the list of schools, providing details in footnotes. This has removed the broken links while still making details available if required. I'm not altogether happy with the string of blue footnote markers in the text. Would it be possible to merge these into one footnote? If so, I'm not sure how to do it. Mikeo1938 (talk) 08:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

There is a List of schools in the South East of England with an East Sussex version. I would suggest that we do not individually name the schools (unless particularly notable) but just point to this list. Further to that, there is suggestion on that page to split the list in county articles List of schools in East Sussex. If that happens, Eastbourne would have its own section List of schools in East Sussex#Eastbourne ++ MortimerCat (talk) 08:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

OK. Then the Ofsted reference could perhaps be omitted. I only put that in as a lead in to the Ofsted site. Mikeo1938 (talk) 07:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merging of Meads with E'bne article

The problem is that we would then increase the length of the article about Eastbourne. We have just moved much about Holywell to reduce its size. There would be a tendency to amplify the info about other areas and thus enlarge the main article. As far as Meads itself is concerned, there is a mass of other material to be added. (I have not yet got around to doing this.) If Meads ceases to exist as a separate entry, this would be impossible.Mikeo1938 (talk) 10:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

The Meads merge was a mistake. The criteria I am working too is that the smallest geographical region that can be a stub is a Civil Parish. In the case of Eastbourne Borough, that would mean a ward, such as Meads. MortimerCat (talk) 23:49, 22 May 2008 (UTC)