Shoreham-by-Sea
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| OS grid reference | |
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| District | Adur |
| Shire county | West Sussex |
| Region | South East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Shoreham-by-Sea |
| Postcode district | BN43 |
| Dial code | 01273 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | East Worthing and Shoreham |
| European Parliament | South East England |
| List of places: UK • England • West Sussex | |
Shoreham-by-Sea, is a town and civil parish in the Adur District of West Sussex, England.
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. The town lies in the middle of the ribbon of urban development along the coast between the city of Brighton & Hove and the town of Worthing.
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[edit] History
Old Shoreham dates back to pre-Roman times. The name of the town has a Saxon origin. The town and port of New Shoreham was established by the Norman conquerors towards the end of the 11th Century.
St Mary de Haura Church was built in the decade following the Domesday Book of 1086, and around this time the town was laid out on a grid pattern that, in essence, survives in the town centre. The Church is only half the size of the original - the former nave has completely fallen down although remnants of the original west facade survive in the Churchyard to some height.
The rise of Brighton, Hove and Worthing - in particular the arrival of the railway in 1840 - prepared the way for Shoreham-by-Sea's rise as a Victorian sea port, with several shipyards and an active coasting trade. Shoreham Harbour remains in commercial operation.
Shoreham Beach, to the south of the town, is a shingle bank thrown up over the centuries by the sea through the process of longshore drift as an extension to Lancing parish in the west. 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. Once the harbour mouth was stabilised it was defended by Shoreham Fort. Converted railway carriages became summer homes around the turn of the century, and Bungalow Town, as it was then known, became home for a short time to the early UK film industry. Shoreham Beach officially became part of Shoreham in 1910. It was cleared for defence reasons during the Second World War and is now completely redeveloped for modern houses. Nonetheless the Church of the Good Shepherd, built in 1913, still stands. The shingle bank extends further east past the harbour mouth, forming the southern boundary of the commercial harbour in Southwick, Portslade and Hove.
Shoreham civil parish covers an area of 984.88ha and has a population of 19,175 (2001 census).
Shoreham-by-Sea is home to the largest Farmers Market in Sussex and one of the largest in the South of England, it is held in East Street on the second Saturday of each month and usualy has in excess of 60 stall holders.
[edit] Transport
Shoreham Airport, is located in Lancing to the west of the main town, is now in private ownership. It is the oldest licensed airport in the UK, the Art Deco terminal building is listed as of historical interest and has also been used as a set for the filming of one of Agatha Christie's classic Poirot stories, a crimewatch type reconstruction in 2000 by Meridian television [1]Lord Edgware Dies, as well as the scenes from the film of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.[2]
The town is also served by Shoreham-by-Sea railway station, located on the West Coastway Line.
[edit] People
- Havergal Brian, the English composer, moved from London to Shoreham-by-Sea in 1958 at the age of 82; he wrote twenty symphonies there over the next ten years.
- Phyllis Pearsall, painter, writer, and creator of the A to Z map of London lived on Shoreham Beach before her death in 1996.
- Leo Sayer, British singer and recording artist, was born Gerard Hugh Sayer on 21st May 1948 in Shoreham-by-Sea. His parents were Thomas Sayer and Teresa Nolan.
- Captain Henry Roberts (1725 - 1796) was a native of Shoreham, where he raised his six children. He sailed with Captain James Cook on the second and third of the great voyages and acted as cartographer. He witnessed the death of Captain Cook, killed by natives in Hawaii in 1779. Later, whilst in command of HMS Undaunted in the West Indies, he caught yellow fever and died in 1796.
- Nicholas van Hoogstraten, British property tycoon, was born Nicholas Marcel Hoogstraten in Shoreham-by-Sea in 1946 and was educated at a local Jesuit school.
- Mark Benson, former England cricketer and now a cricket umpire, was born in Shoreham-by-Sea on 6th July, 1958.
- Harry Ricardo founded Ricardo Consulting Engineers in Shoreham-by-Sea, where it still has its main offices.
- Fiona Mont Dubbed "Britain's most wanted woman" in 2000.It was claimed she was smuggled out of the country in a light aircraft from Shoreham Airport in 1999.video [3]
- Raymond O. Faulkner, philologist and compiler of the standard hieroglyphic dictionary used by many modern Egyptologists, was born in Shoreham on 26th December 1894.
- Graham Hesketh Aerobatic pilot smuggler and parachutist that ran the "Baron flying club" at Shoreham Airport 1997 to 1999, later to marry Fiona Mont in 2006.
- Michael Standing Chesterfield midfielder, was born in Shoreham-by-Sea on 21st March, 1981.
