A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Shoreham.-- (or New Shoreham), market town, seaport, and par., Sussex, at mouth of river Adur (here crossed by a suspension bridge), 6 miles W. of Brighton and 56½ SW. of London by rail, 116 ac., pop. 3505; P.O., T.O. Market-day, Saturday. The town of Shoreham was originally situated in Old Shoreham parish, 1 mile N. of its present site, and its harbour was long a great outlet to the Continent, but early in the 15th century it became silted up. The present harbour (piers erected 1819) is only tidal, and encumbered by a bar, but there is an important trade coastwise and with France, Holland, and the north of Europe. (For shipping statistics, see Appendix.) Shipbuilding, and oyster and other fisheries, are important industries. The fine old parish church dates from about 1100. Among the educational institutions are the Protestant Grammar School and the Collegiate School. In the Swiss Gardens are a theatre, a museum, and a conservatory. Shoreham (the parl. limits of which were extended in 1770 so as to include all the rape of Bramber except the bor. of Horsham) returned 2 members to Parliament from the time of Edward NI. until 1885.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "market town" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | NEW SHOREHAM | SHOREHAM | SHOREHAM OR NEW SHOREHAM |
| Place: | Shoreham |
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