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Shoreham Beach is a 26.2-hectare (65-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council. [1] [2] The beach has vegetated shingle, which is an internationally rare habitat, with flora including yellow horned poppy, sea kale and curled dock. [1]
Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a coastal town and port in the Adur district, in the county of West Sussex, England. In 2011 it had a population of 20,547. The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur Valley, and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel.
Mill Hill is a 13.5-hectare (33-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned by Adur District Council and managed by the council and the South Downs Joint Committee. [1] [2] This site has chalk grassland, scrub and secondary woodland.
Lancing is a large coastal village and civil parish in the Adur district of West Sussex, England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley.It occupies part of the narrow central section of the Sussex coastal plain between smaller Sompting to the west, larger Shoreham-by-Sea to the east, and the parish of Coombes to the north.
Southwick (/ ˈ s aʊ θ w ɪ k /) is a town in the Adur district of West Sussex, England located five miles (8 km) west of Brighton.It covers an area of 863.7 ha (2,134 acres). In 2001 it had a population of 13,1
Kingston by Sea, also known as Kingston Buci, Kingston Bucii or simply Kingston, is a small area in the Adur district of West Sussex, England.Although it is now part of a continuous urban area, its origins lay in an ancient village and parish church between Southwick to the east, Shoreham-by-Sea to the west and the mouth of the River Adur to the south.
Old Shoreham was a mostly agricultural village on the east bank of the River Adur. [1] Claims that it was founded near the place where Ælle of Sussex—the first King of the South Saxons—came ashore in 477 have been disproved, but it had become a successful village by the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, supporting a population of 76. [1]
Reconstructed Shoreham Tollbridge. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw the construction of a great many structures in England. Canals, harbour schemes, railways, roads and bridges were all built. What is now known as the Old Shoreham Tollbridge was built during this period over the River Adur between Shoreham and Lancing. Before the ...