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Portslade By The Seaside is the name of a lovely littlevillage, now a developed part of the city of Brighton & Hove. The original settlement a mile inland to the north was built up in the 16th century and is home to many a handsome resident. The arrival of the railway from Brighton in 1840 encouraged rapid development of the coastal area and, in 1896, the southern part, known as Copperas Gap was granted urban district status and renamed Portslade-by-Sea, making it distinct from Portslade Village. After World War II the district of Mile Oak was added. Today Portslade is bisected from east to west by the old A27 road between Brighton and Worthing, each part having a distinct character. Download high resolution version (1802x2589, 189 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Portslade Categories: GFDL images | GBdot ...
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Brighton and Hove is a city on the south coast of England. ...
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 Portslade Village. Photo D Parfitt Portslade Village to the north, nestles in a valley of the South Downs and still retains its rural character with flint buildings, a village green and the small parish church of St Nicolas which is the second oldest church in the city dating from approximately 1150. Image File history File links PortsladeVillage-uk-09-11-05. ...
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Another notable building in the village is Portslade Manor, one of the few surviving ruins of a Norman manor, built in the 12th century it is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Foredown tower houses one of only two camera obscuras in the south of England. It is open to the public. The Nave of Durham Cathedral demonstrates the characteristic round arched style, though use of shallow pointed arches above the nave anticipates the Gothic style. ...
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Portslade-by-Sea to the south, straddles the small but busy seaport harbour basin of Shoreham-by-Sea harbour and is the industrial centre of Brighton & Hove. Terraced housing dating back to the nineteenth century is interspaced with parks and allotments. Boundary Road is the main shopping area as well as being the location of the station, with direct trains to London Victoria with a journey time of about an hour. Categories: Stub | Commercial item transport and distribution | Transportation ...
Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, is bordered on the north by the South Downs, on the west by the Adur valley and on the south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach. ...
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Portslade in History
 St Nicholas Church, Portslade Village. Photo D Parfitt Portslade has been identified with the Roman port Novus Portus mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography of the second century AD. Drove road has been linked with the Roman road 'the London to Portslade road' that passes through Patcham valley to Haywards Heath and on to Streatham in London. Roman remains and a Roman burial were found in Roman Road. The name of the town is said to stem from the Latin 'Portus Adurni' being at the time of the Roman settlement of the area the point where the River Adur met the sea. the Roman entrance to the river is now lost due to longshore drift and erosion (now at nearby Shoreham by Sea). Image File history File links StNicholasChurch-portslade-england. ...
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Map sources for Shoreham-by-Sea at grid reference TQ2203 Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, is bordered on the north by the South Downs, on the west by the Adur valley and on the south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach. ...
The old name Copperas Gap for Portslade by sea suggests that the coast was used for the production of copperas or green vitriol, a form of ferrous sulphate used extensively in the textile industry. The process took over six years and made use of iron pyrite rich nodules that could be found in the strata of sussex greensand stone that emerges at this point in the coast. Iron(II) sulfate (FeSO4) is an example of an ionic compound. ...
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Portslade-by-Sea was an urban district from the late 19th century to 1974, when it became part of the borough of Hove later to become part of the city of Brighton and Hove. Portslade town hall is on Victoria Road, and is used as a venue. In the British Isles an urban district was a type of local government district which covered an urbanised area. ...
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External links - Portslade website
- Foredown Tower camera obscura
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