Wellington Square, as will be seen in the foregoing views, was a hill sloping down from the Castle, as it still slopes, though at a less incline. In Powell's Guide and Directory of Lodging Houses, 1819, he mentions 14 houses in York Buildings, 5 at the back of York Buildings, now called York Gardens, the Castle Hotel, 12 (now 21) in Wellington Place, (afterwards called Wellington Square), 14 in Blucher Place, (now Russell Street), 6 Castle Cottages, and Beach Cottages, 16 houses scattered between the White Rock and Marine Baths (near the Russian Gun). This locality is now Pelham Street, Denmark Place, and Caroline Place. Moss's History, 1824, mentions the Castle Hotel as having been recently built, and states : " Wellington Place adjoins the Castle Hotel, and consists of a double range of very handsome
houses, forming two sides of a square with an oval plantation in front. The views of the surrounding country, Beachy Head, and the sea, from this spot, are particularly picturesque." By this it would appear from its incompleteness it was not yet called a Square.
It is on record that the Castle Hotel was opened by Mr. Emary in 1816. This land was purchased from Mr. Milward in 1815 by the Banking Firm of Thomas Breeds, Farncombe, Boykett Breeds and Wenham, for a large sum of money, and a rich deposit of brick earth was discovered, and bricks were made, some of which were used in the building of the Castle Hotel. The same firm were -
