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Shoreham-by-Sea: I: The church dominates the town centre and port of Shoreham-by-Sea, but the present structure is just part of the original building, which may have been an 11th-century collegiate church. Erosion, storms and lack of use caused most of the building to collapse in the 18th century; parts were salvaged to form the rebuilt church.
Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a coastal town and port in the Adur district, in the county of West Sussex, England. In 2011 it had a population of 20,547. The town is bordered to its north by the South Downs, to its west by the Adur Valley, and to its south by the River Adur and Shoreham Beach on the English Channel.
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Shoreham F.C., a football club in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex HMS Shoreham , at least five ships of the Royal Navy Shoreham -class sloop , eight warships of the Royal Navy built in the 1930s
Shoreham Beach is a 26.2-hectare (65-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned and managed by Adur District Council. [1] [2] The beach has vegetated shingle, which is an internationally rare habitat, with flora including yellow horned poppy, sea kale and curled dock. [1]
Adur (/ eɪ ˈ d ʊər /) is a local government district in West Sussex, England.It is named after the River Adur which flows through the area. The council is based in the town of Shoreham-by-Sea, and the district also contains the town of Southwick, the large village of Lancing and a modest rural hinterland inland.
Five ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Shoreham after the port town of Shoreham-by-Sea in Sussex: HMS Shoreham (1694) was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1694. She was rebuilt as a 20-gun sixth rate in 1720, and was sold in 1744. HMS Shoreham (1744) was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1744 and sold in 1758. HMS Shoreham was to ...
The town continued to serve as the headquarters of Shoreham-by-Sea Urban District Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged Adur District Council, which had been formed in 1974, [10] moved to the new civic centre on Ham Road in 1980.