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Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a town and seaside resort in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England, within the Rother District Council area.
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The earliest evidence of occupation of the site came from the discovery of primitive boats at Egerton Park. The town came into official existence with the Charter of 772. In this charter, King Offa II, King of Mercia, granted land to Bishop Oswald to build a church. Three hundred years later, around 1066, William the Conqueror gave the Rape of Hastings, including the captured town of Bexhill (also referred to as the "Badman Town"), to Robert, Count of Eu, as the spoils of victory.
The manor of Gotham in
Bexhill was held by the de Lyvet (Levett) family from an early date. (The Levetts
held land at Firle, Catsfield, Ninfield, South Heighton and West Dean and elsewhere,
some of which was lost due to an heir's bankruptcy.) Thomas de Lyvet, son of Richard,
granted Gotham manor to James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele. Thomas's daughter
Elizabeth, who married William Gildredge of Withyham, unsuccessful disputed Gotham
manor in 1445. The Gildredge family later lived at nearby Eastbourne, where by
1554 they owned much of the land. Today's Gildredge Park in Eastbourne is named
for the family. Most of the Gildredge lands were carried by marriage into the
Gilbert (now Davies-Gilbert) family of Eastbourne, who made the Gildredge manor
house their own.
Bexhill manor in 2002
The church owned Bexhill Manor until Queen Elizabeth I acquired it in 1590 and granted it to Thomas Sackville, then Baron Buckhurst. Thomas became the first Earl of Dorset in 1603. In 1813, when the male line of the earldom had died out, Elizabeth Sackville married the fifth Earl De La Warr, and she and her husband inherited Bexhill. This early history can still be seen in street names, with Sackville Road, Buckhurst Road, De La Warr Parade, and King Offa Way being some of the most significant roads in the town.
On 20 May 1729, a waterspout came ashore, became a tornado, and travelled 12 miles inland to Battle and Linkhill; nine farms and properties received serious damage.
Smuggling was rife in the area in the early nineteenth century. In 1828, the local Little Common Gang were involved in what was known as the Battle of Sidley Green, a nearby hamlet.
Areas
Old Town: The original town
on the hill, chartered by King Offa in 772.
Cooden: An upperclass area of
the town, it is in the southwest/west and plays host to a couple of hotels, a
golf course and a beach.
Little Common: A village in the west near Cooden.
Pebsham: An area to the east of the town, it is near Sidley.
Sidley: Another
village, it is in the north.
Collington: A residential area near Cooden.
Bexhill New Town: The main part of Bexhill. There are several roads with a variety
of shops, a railway station, a library and the De La Warr Pavilion on the seafront.
Ninfield: A rural area to the north.
Barnhorn: An area west of Bexhill; its
name survives in Barnhorne Manor and Barnhorn Road (a section of the A259). The
name was recorded in AD 772 in an Anglo-Saxon charter as Berna horna.
Reginald Sackville, seventh Earl De La Warr, decided to transform what was then a village on a hill around its church into an exclusive seaside resort, which he named Bexhill-on-Sea. He was instrumental in building a sea wall south of the village, and the road above it was then named De La Warr Parade. Large houses were built inland from there, and the new town began. In 1890, the luxurious Sackville Hotel was built.
Bexhill was the location for the first motor race in the United Kingdom, in 1902. Signs at the town's outskirts have the text 'Birthplace of British Motor Racing' appended below the town's name.
During the Second World War, Bexhill was named as a point to attack as part of Operation Sealion by Nazi Germany.
The town, like many other English seaside resorts, is now much more a settled community. Although there is a small entertainment area on the seafront, it now has a large retired population, like much of the south coast.
Comedian Eddie Izzard spent part of his childhood years in Bexhill-on-Sea. The town inspired the Goon Show episode The Dreaded Batter-Pudding Hurler of Bexhill-on-Sea.
East Sussex is a county in South East England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel. From a geological point of view East Sussex is part of southern anticline of the Weald: the South Downs, a range of moderate chalk hills which run across the southern part of the county from west to east and mirrored in Kent by the North Downs. To the north lie parallel valleys and ridges, the highest of which is the Weald itself (the Hastings beds and Wealden Clay). The sandstones and clays come the sea at Hastings; the Downs at Beachy Head.
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