Theatre of Trees
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Incorrect, New Shoreham was built in the 12th century when longshore drift began blocking the mouth of the Adur making it difficult for boats to anchor at Old Shoreham.
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anyone know where burgess hill is?
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Incorrect, New Shoreham was built in the 12th century when longshore drift began blocking the mouth of the Adur making it difficult for boats to anchor at Old Shoreham.
- Jul 7, 2003
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I'll see your so-called-snaky-hill and raise you a BEACON
You don't see Ditchling boasting about it, do you?
No, they just get on with it, rather than blatantly changing the names of regally named Avenues to make them sound like treacherously steep inclines.
You big city folk and your ways.
hillbilly
In the hill, not over it!
I did not know that. I lived in Hassocks during my school years, so missed that treat! I have lived in the town and outskirts of B Hill, the latter the much better. In fairness it feels like almost anywhere in terms the outskirts of towns/cities my friends live in.
northstandnorth
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I was born off of old shoreham road and it has been called such since at least the 50's but Shoreham beach(new shoreham) has its roots in the cinema industry that stretched and embraced the railway track from hove to shoreham. Ranging from the film studios of hove to the companies making projectors and cameras (Alfred Darling being the most famous) to the shanty town of Shoreham Beach.
Indeed he does. He's the the uncle of a friend who farms the land between Cuckfield and Staplefield. He is also related to Jack Hayward of Wolves.
northstandnorth
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bulshit ms willowby claims Colliers 6th form college,Horsham in her c.v.
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Thats pretty much bang on!
skipper734
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Right. Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath are definitely uphill from Shoreham. Because the River Adur which runs past the end of the Old Shoreham Road, which is a fair walk away from the oldest part of Shoreham, rises from two sources outside of Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath. 
Burgess Hill Seagulls
hmmmm...
Noel Rise, Junction Road, Janes lane. They are all hilly enough for me!
NMH
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Good thread - I've wondered for years about the naming of HH, wondering where the heath was.
Now, can someone tell me what that station at Balcombe (which appears to be in the middle of nowhere) is all about and what are the bridges in Three Bridges?
Now, can someone tell me what that station at Balcombe (which appears to be in the middle of nowhere) is all about and what are the bridges in Three Bridges?
dougdeep
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No worse than Wivelsfield station which is in afore mentioned Burgess Hill.
KZNSeagull
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To get into Burgess Hill by road from the North, East and South you have to go up a hill, so that must be it. Not much of a hill, granted, but a hill none the less. Most of the town is built on top of said hill. But I would agree that if that is a hill, then the Downs are an enormous mountain range challenging the Himalayas.
As for the Heath in Haywards, if you walk next to the golf club between the 8th hole and the railway line, there is a very small patch of heathland (gorse bushes and a bit of heather), so maybe that is it. I suspect that many years ago, it would have resembled Chailey common or similar.
I believe that it was the Sergison family in Cuckfield that prevented the railway going through their land (Cuckfield House? next to the cricket pitch) and that the ghost of one of them (Ann?) swings on the gates of the house whenever she hears a train. So yes, before that Haywards Heath was just a collection of large farms as the coach route to Brighton went via Cuckfield. Some would say that HH is still a collection of houses and not much else to this day, but I could not possibly comment.
As for the Heath in Haywards, if you walk next to the golf club between the 8th hole and the railway line, there is a very small patch of heathland (gorse bushes and a bit of heather), so maybe that is it. I suspect that many years ago, it would have resembled Chailey common or similar.
I believe that it was the Sergison family in Cuckfield that prevented the railway going through their land (Cuckfield House? next to the cricket pitch) and that the ghost of one of them (Ann?) swings on the gates of the house whenever she hears a train. So yes, before that Haywards Heath was just a collection of large farms as the coach route to Brighton went via Cuckfield. Some would say that HH is still a collection of houses and not much else to this day, but I could not possibly comment.
Or Burgess Depression ( I work there), if you approach it from Ditchling Beacon you often see a sort of hazy gloom settling over it.
Also boasts a magnificent office with IT 1st emblazoned over it's grand portico.
drew
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Just for arguments sake, the main hill in Burgess hill runs up from Worlds End, bottom of Junction Road, up to Hoadleys corner, a difference of appromiately 30 metres, according to Earthtools.org.
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you sure about that? Which school would that be then
Or Moulsecoomb which is next to Holliingdean and across the road from Bevendean.
Or London Road ....
hillbilly
In the hill, not over it!
Norman Potting
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Interestingly Crowborough, the highest inhabited point in East Sussex, doesn't need to mention hills or beacons in it's name. It just knows that it is the highest place (even has it's own micro climate) and doesn't need to draw attention to the fact. It is above such things (see what I did there).
very good!