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The Adur (/ eɪ ˈ d ʊər / or / eɪ ˈ d ɜː /) is a river in Sussex, England; it gives its name to the Adur district of West Sussex.The river, which is 20 miles (32 km) [1] long, was once navigable for large vessels up as far as Steyning, where there was a large Saxon port, but by the 11th century [2] the lower river became silted up and the port moved down to the deeper waters at the ...
Adur, Azerbaijan, a village in the Quba Rayon; Adur, Bangalore South, a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India; Adur, Haveri, a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India; Adur, Iran, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran; Adur, Shimoga, a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India; Adur District, England
Adur Estuary is a 62.2-hectare (154-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest on the western outskirts of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. [1] [2] Part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds nature reserve. [3] The estuary has large areas of salt marsh. Sea purslane is dominant above the mean high water mark and glasswort below.
Before the building of the bridge in 1781–2, the Adur presented the one major obstacle to east–west communication along the coastal plain of Southern England. The choices open to the traveller wishing to cross the Adur were to travel miles out of the way and use the bridge at Bramber , to ford the river on horseback or to use the ferry that ...
Aldrington is an area in the city of Brighton and Hove in the ceremonial county of East Sussex, England.It was formerly a civil parish.For centuries it was meadow land along the English Channel stretching west from the old village of Hove to the old mouth of the River Adur, and it is now a prosperous residential area integrated within Hove.
In the same year, work was carried out on the River Adur within the project boundaries to remove the artificial banks and allow the river to flood the surrounding meadows in a more natural way. [25] In 2012, the Environment Agency removed the largest weir and disabled the rest, [26] and within a year sea trout were spotted migrating up the ...
System map of the Adur Valley Railway line (Steyning Line) This was a viable proposal, in opposition to the London and Brighton Railway's plans for a line from the London and Croydon Railway at Norwood, running through Redhill, Three Bridges and Haywards Heath.
The parish of Botolphs came into existence in the Saxon era as one of several long, narrow divisions of land on the southern slopes of the South Downs near the River Adur, which reached the English Channel at the port of Shoreham. Like neighbouring Beeding and Bramber, Botolphs' territory stretched for about 2 miles (3.2 km) from west to east.