Southwick West Sussex hotels:

The parish of Southwick, from 1899 to 1974 an urban district, (Footnote 78) lies on the coast in the extreme south-east corner of Bramber rape and of West Sussex. It is 2 miles east of Shoreham and 4 miles west of Brighton, its coastal strip containing the busiest part, industrially and commercially, of Shoreham harbour and the flat land of the plain to the north providing the site for a leafy suburb centred on a large village green, long regarded as attractive. (Footnote 79) Beyond, the land rises, with housing estates built since the 1930s on the lower slopes of the chalk downland, which reaches nearly 400 ft. within the parish. (Footnote 80) The land on the plain is alluvium and brickearth, which has been exploited commercially. The parish formed an elongated triangle, and from the apex on the downs the boundary with Lewes rape and East Sussex ran south-east in a straight line. The western boundary followed field boundaries at the northern end and the straight line of Kingston Lane for two-thirds of its length. (Footnote 82) That boundary was not established until 1848. Previously an area of 580 a. stretching from Stoney Lane in Kingston on the west to Southwick Green had contained intermixed lands of each parish, of which 236 a. paid tithes....................