enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. River Adur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Adur

    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 ...

  3. Adur - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adur

    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; River Adur, England

  4. St Botolph's Church, Botolphs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Botolph's_Church,_Botolphs

    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.

  5. Steyning - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyning

    Steyning (/ ˈ s t ɛ n ɪ ŋ / ⓘ STEN-ing) is a town and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England.It is located at the north end of the River Adur gap in the South Downs, four miles (six kilometres) north of the coastal town of Shoreham-by-Sea.

  6. Shoreham Tollbridge - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Tollbridge

    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 ...

  7. Adur District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adur_District

    Adur (/ eɪ ˈ d ʊər /) is a local government district in West Sussex, England. It is named after the River Adur which flows through the area. The council is based in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea , and the district also contains the town of Southwick , the large village of Lancing and a modest rural hinterland inland.

  8. Aldrington - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrington

    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.

  9. History of local government in Sussex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_local...

    The history of local government in Sussex is unique and complex. Founded as a kingdom in the 5th ... and another sub-division may have been along the River Adur. [6]