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Beauport Park, East Sussex". OpenLearn. Open University. 22 June 2006. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013 . Retrieved 10 August 2013. Hastings local history Wiki". Archived from the original on 31 October 2019 . Retrieved 2 November 2019. Hastings History Wiki: Turnpike Roads". Archived from the original on 6 August 2019 . Retrieved 6 August 2019. Hastings is situated where the sandstone beds, at the heart of the Weald, known geologically as the Hastings Sands, meet the English Channel, forming tall cliffs to the east of the town. Hastings Old Town is in a sheltered valley between the East Hill and West Hill (on which the remains of the Castle stand). In Victorian times and later the town has spread westwards and northwards, and now forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west. Roads from the Old Town valley lead towards the Victorian area of Clive Vale and the former village of Ore, from which "The Ridge", marking the effective boundary of Hastings, extends north-westwards towards Battle. Beyond Bulverhythe, the western end of Hastings is marked by low-lying land known as Glyne Gap, separating it from Bexhill-on-Sea.

Hastings Contemporary is sensitively and intuitively designed by HAT Projectsto complement the surrounding environment, sitting amongst Hastings’s famous net huts, overlooking the largest beach-launched fishing fleet in Europe, the gallerya reputation for its focus on painting and on Modern British art. Look out for one of seven new artworks outside the gallery, that link the Sussex, Kent and Essex coast. The other artworkin this area can be found outsideDe La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. Opening of Lacuna Place set to create jobs for Hastings". Hastings & St. Leonards Observer. 24 September 2008. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014 . Retrieved 28 January 2014. Hastings Pier reopening delayed by a year". www.bbc.co.uk/news. BBC News. 16 April 2015. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015 . Retrieved 5 February 2016.

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More is known about the Norman deployment. [94] Duke William appears to have arranged his forces in three groups, or "battles", which roughly corresponded to their origins. The left units were the Bretons, [95] along with those from Anjou, Poitou and Maine. This division was led by Alan the Red, a relative of the Breton count. [90] The centre was held by the Normans, [95] under the direct command of the duke and with many of his relatives and kinsmen grouped around the ducal party. [90] The final division, on the right, consisted of the Frenchmen, [95] along with some men from Picardy, Boulogne, and Flanders. The right was commanded by William fitzOsbern and Count Eustace II of Boulogne. [90] The front lines were made up of archers, with a line of foot soldiers armed with spears behind. [95] There were probably a few crossbowmen and slingers in with the archers. [90] The cavalry was held in reserve, [95] and a small group of clergymen and servants situated at the base of Telham Hill was not expected to take part in the fighting. [90] The timing could not have been worse for the Saxons. The winds changed and William’s fleet crossed the Channel, landing on the Saxon coast unopposed on 28th September 1066. Two points of interest dominate the character of the bustling East Sussex town of Hastings – the sea and 1066. One of the medieval Cinque Ports, Hastings has long had a close relationship with the ocean, and although its fishing industry has declined, it still has Europe's largest beach-launched fishing fleet.

Key events 771 – 1699". The Hastings Chronicle. 2012. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013 . Retrieved 28 January 2014. a b "ACCESS TO HASTINGS MULTI-MODAL STUDY (Consultation Report)" (PDF). p.324. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 October 2007 . Retrieved 9 May 2009. Bexhill to Hastings link road – East Sussex County Council". East Sussex County Council. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Walker, Ian (2000). Harold the Last Anglo-Saxon King. Gloucestershire, UK: Wrens Park. ISBN 0-905778-46-4. Hastings Castle was built in 1070 by the Normans, four years after the Norman invasion. It is located on the West Hill, overlooking the town centre and is a Grade I listed building. Little remains of the castle apart from the arch left from the chapel, part of the walls and dungeons. The nearby St. Clements Caves are home to the Smugglers Adventure, which features interactive displays relating to the history of smuggling on the south coast of England.Harold marched his army north and routed the invaders at the battle of Stamford Bridge, in which both Harald Hadrada and Tostig were killed. Like many coastal towns, the population of Hastings grew significantly as a result of the construction of railway links and the fashionable growth of seaside holidays during the Victorian era. In 1801, its population was a mere 3,175; by 1831, it had reached over ten thousand; by 1891, it was almost sixty thousand. Among the fighting knights of Northern France who joined William were Eustace, Count of Boulogne, Roger de Beaumont and Roger de Montgomerie. The clergy was well represented; among them Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, William’s half brother, and a monk René who brought twenty fighting men and a ship, in the expectation of a bishopric in England. Robert le Blount commanded the fleet. The Saxon Shore Way, (a long distance footpath, 163mi (262km) in length from Gravesend, Kent traces the Kent and Sussex coast "as it was in Roman times" to Hastings. The National Cycle Network route NCR2 links Dover to St Austell along the south coast, and passes through Hastings.

The town of Rye is a 20 minute drive or train journey from Hastings and is reputed to be the best preserved medieval town in the UK. The cobbled streets of Rye citadel is a photographer or artist’s dream and the Rye town model and story of Rye is a great introduction to your visit to the town. Winchelsea is a precious gem of a town, built on a hill just five minutes journey outside Rye, and has the third largest network of medieval wine cellars in England, as well as the beautiful St Thomas the Martyr church and monastery ruins. C J Sampson based his fictional town of Shinglesea in the novel ‘Dissolution’ on the town of Winchelsea. In the other direction a five minute drive or bus journey takes you to the 7 mile stretch of dunes at Camber Sands, East Sussex’s biggest sandy beach and a dream for kite surfers, kite buggiers or sand castle builders. In the 13th century, much of the town and half of Hastings Castle was washed away in the South England flood of February 1287. During a naval campaign of 1339, and again in 1377, the town was raided and burnt by the French, and seems then to have gone into a decline. As a port, Hastings' days were finished. In 771 King Offa of Mercia invaded Southern England, and over the next decade gradually seized control of Sussex and Kent. Symeon of Durham records a battle fought at an unidentified location near Hastings in 771, at which Offa defeated the Haestingas tribe, effectively ending its existence as a separate kingdom. By 790, Offa controlled Hastings effectively enough to confirm grants of land in Hastings to the Abbey of St Denis, in Paris. [13] But, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1011 relates that Vikings overran "all Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Haestingas", indicating the town was still considered a separate 'county' or province to its neighbours 240 years after Offa's conquest. [14] Carpenter, David (2004). The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066–1284. New York: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-014824-8.

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third reviseded.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. Thomas, Hugh (2007). The Norman Conquest: England after William the Conqueror. Critical Issues in History. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7425-3840-5. Hastings, England Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)". Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. The Vikings in the region became known as the "Northmen", from which "Normandy" and "Normans" are derived. [2]