Shanklin Village, also known as the Shanklin Estate or Shanklin Village Estate is a

council housing Public housing in the United Kingdom, also known as council estates, council housing, or social housing, provided the majority of rented accommodation until 2011 when the number of households in private rental housing surpassed the number in so ...

estate in Sutton,

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, sited between Brighton Road and the

Epsom Downs Branch The Epsom Downs Branch is a railway line in the United Kingdom. The line runs from Sutton to Epsom Downs and is about long. The line starts at Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton. It is double track for about until it reaches the approach t ...

railway line.
It was built in the late 1960s to replace a number of prefabricated buildings, purpose-built after the

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. The main road is Hulverston Close. The estate consists of 424 deck-access flats and maisonettes built to a then-innovative layout and a few terraced houses. The southern part of the site is a large public open space known as Belmont Park.

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Housing estates in the London Borough of Sutton {{London-geo-stub