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Newhaven
Newhaven shown within East Sussex
Population	11,000
OS grid reference	TQ4401
District	Lewes
Shire county	East Sussex
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Brighton
Postcode district	BN9
Dialling code	01273
Police	Sussex
Fire	East Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Lewes
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • East Sussex

Coordinates: 50°47′42″N 0°02′56″E / 50.795, 0.0489

Newhaven is a town in the Lewes District of East Sussex in England. It lies at the mouth of the River Ouse, on the Sussex Coast, and is a car ferry port for services across the English Channel to Dieppe in Normandy. The port handles industrial traffic and there is also a small marina.

The town is linked to Lewes by rail; there are two stations: Newhaven Town and Newhaven Harbour. There is also a third station, Newhaven Marine, which is effectively a spur from Newhaven Harbour. This station whilst not officially closed, sees no regular traffic, apart from the unadvertised 18:52 from Lewes; however this hasn't run since August 2006 because of the state of the platform roof. The only trains are usually either empty stock movements or charter services. The line terminates at nearby Seaford.

The huge Newhaven Fort, built on Castle Hill in the 1860s, is only the last of several built here since Bronze Age times. It is now a visitor attraction.

While the commercial and industrial communities of Newhaven have declined, the town has been granted quite extensive regeneration programmes for several years, to varying degrees of success. These have included a huge increase in properties built in the town over the past decade or so. Recent developments have sought to increase economic prosperity in the area, but have on the whole failed, with the recent closure of several of the town's major shops. One of the business closures was, in part, a protest at the mismanagement of the town.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 Archaeological Sites 3 Intrigue 4 Harbour 5 Trivia 6 Railway 7 References 8 External links

Newhaven used to be named Meeching until the 16th century when a great storm diverted the course of the Sussex Ouse so forming a New Haven.

Newhaven is the postal town of the nearby villages of South Heighton and Denton.

To the east of Newhaven is the derelict village of Tide Mills which is the remains of workers' cottages, a tide mill, and a large saline lagoon which was the storage pond for high water to power the mill on the outgoing tide.

Almost within the same site is the set of foundations for the Heritage Marine Hospital[1][2] which was founded in the mid-19th century to cater for disabled boys who had undergone surgery.

Tide Mills is also associated with the pioneering Newhaven Seaplane Base[3]

When Lord Lucan vanished in 1974, his car was found in Newhaven, in Norman Road, with two types of blood in it.

• Transmanche Ferries (Dieppe)
• LD Lines (Le Havre)

It has been a harbour since the 19th century, when the river Ouse used to flow through Seaford. Unfortunately, the flow of the river stopped when there was a tempest in the early 19th century. As a solution to this problem, engineers performed 'the cut' at what is now known as Newhaven. They managed to cut a channel down to what is now Newhaven Harbour, and join up with the river further inland than Seaford. This meant that Newhaven then prospered as a harbour town. The Harbour Arm at Newhaven was added later on when people from the Channel Islands migrated to Newhaven, and built the Arm.

The harbour then became very useful during the first and second World Wars, as it was the fastest way to reach Dieppe (France). At this time the town benefited greatly from the Navy being at Newhaven.

Today, the harbour's main function is as a commercial liner harbour. (See above for details on the ferry link with Dieppe and Le Havre.) However, the harbour has seen better days, and the decrepit east side of the harbour proves this. It was not always so, though, and the 'London & Paris' hotel that used to be part of the east side at Newhaven harbour shows this. So does the 'Marine Station', now abandoned, also on the east side that used to serve the London & Paris hotel.

Famous residents have included the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo casino,^[1] the author of The Graduate

Newhaven is the setting for the 'Phones 4 U' advertisements broadcast 2006 to current; they feature the breakwater, the land below the fort and the lighthouse on the end of the breakwater.

Newhaven has three railway stations - Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour and the all-but-closed Newhaven Marine.

1. ^ Newhaven Town Council. "Historic Newhaven". Accessed August 21, 2007.

• Newhaven, East Sussex at the Open Directory Project
• Newhaven Dieppe & Le Havre ferries and accommodation
• Transmanche Ferries Website
• LD Lines Website
• Newhaven ferries
• Newhaven Fort
• Newhaven Town
• Newhaven NCI (National Coastwatch Institution)
• Newhaven Lifeboat
• Newhaven Harbour photographs
• Newhaven climate and pictures