![]() The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath, commemorating the escape route of Charles II to France after the Battle of Worcester, follows the beach westwards from Hove past Portslade and Southwick, ending by the harbour mouth's east breakwater. The seaside shingle bank of Shoreham beach extends further east past the harbour mouth, forming the southern boundary of the commercial harbour in Southwick, Portslade, and Hove. Along the Adur mud flats adjacent to Shoreham Beach sits (and at high tides floats) a large collection of houseboats made from converted barges, tugs, mine sweepers, and motor torpedo boats. The Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1913, still stands. Much of the housing in the area was cleared for defence reasons during the Second World War and most of what remained after the war is now long gone, having been replaced by modern houses. Shoreham Beach officially became part of Shoreham-by-Sea in 1910. Lyndhurst founded the Sunny South Film Company, which made its first commercial movie on Shoreham Beach in 1912 and built a film studio there. Ĭonverted railway carriages became summer homes around the start of the 20th century, and 'Bungalow Town', as it was then known, became home to the early British film industry. Once the harbour mouth was stabilised, it was defended by Shoreham Fort, which was built in 1857. In 1816, work had been completed to fix the position of the river in its present position, flowing into the sea between two piers. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the mouth of the river shifted eastwards which restricted trade to the port by 1810, it was almost opposite Aldrington church. This blocks the southerly flow of the River Adur which turns east at this point to discharge into the English Channel further along the coast at a point that has varied considerably over time. Shoreham Beach, to the south of the town, is a shingle spit deposited over millennia by longshore drift. The 'Buci' part of the name comes from the Anglo-Norman owners' hometown of Bouce in Normandy. The 'king' of the name 'Kingston' may have referred to a Saxon king of Sussex. The church here was extensively re-modelled in the thirteenth century when the shifting river estuary temporarily made Kingston a port town. It has a medieval church, rectory, manor house, and huge old barn which still make it a remarkable cluster – and, like Cissbury (where the people came off the hill to form Findon) and at Mount Caburn (where people re-located down at Beddingham), this stranded settlement is three quarters of a mile from the Downs. However, in early or mid-Saxon times, the people may have re-located down off the hill to Kingston Buci ( TQ 235 052), which sits to the east of Shoreham-by-Sea. This may have been the centre of a large estate in the post-Roman Dark Ages. Originally the people of Kingston Buci may have lived at Thundersbarrow. The area became an urban district, with Shoreham Town Hall as its headquarters, in 1910. Shoreham Harbour remains in commercial operation today. The rapid growth of the neighbouring towns of Brighton, Hove and Worthing – and in particular the arrival of the railway in 1840 – prepared the way for Shoreham's rise as a Victorian sea port, with several shipyards and an active coasting trade. Īn 18th-century naval chartist and artist, Captain Henry Roberts, who was once a lieutenant under Captain Cook, was a native of Shoreham. 1153, described Shoreham as "a fine and cultivated city containing buildings and flourishing activity". Muslim geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, writing c. The present church is approximately half the size of the original structure – the former nave was already in ruins by the time of the English Civil War, although evidence of the original west façade survive in the churchyard to this day. St Mary de Haura Church (St Mary of the Haven) was built in the decade following 1103 (the Domesday Book was dated 1086), and around this time the town was laid out on a grid pattern that, in essence, still survives in the town centre. ![]() The town and port of New Shoreham was established by the Norman conquerors towards the end of the 11th century. ![]() The name of the town has an Old English origin. St Nicolas' Church, inland by the River Adur, is partly Anglo-Saxon in its construction. Old Shoreham dates back to pre-Roman times. ![]()
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