SLAS Visit to Sussex by coach Saturday 9th July 2011

SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Summer Coach Tour

The destinations of the coach tour on Saturday, July 9th, 2011, are scheduled to be Bishopstone, Seaford, Eastbourne and Pevensey.  The last two of these will make up the greater part of the tour. 

It is hoped to visit the ancient church at Bishopstone, which is both pre-Conquest and Norman, and sited just north of Seaford amidst the South Downs.  Seaford was the ‘old haven’, three miles east of the present port of Newhaven. 

Eastbourne is known as a gracious resort, which the Victorians called ‘the empress of watering-places’, largely laid out on the estates of the Dukes of Devonshire and the Davies family.  Historically, it was a village a little inland, centred on St. Mary’s Church in what is now called the Old Town. The Town Hall of Victorian Eastbourne is sited where the hamlet of Southbourne once existed, and a few old houses on the modern seafront represent the original tiny resort of ‘Sea Houses’.  These, and a few other hamlets, made up the new town in the later 19th century.  Just as St. Mary’s represents the original village, so the Victorian spire of St. Saviour’s represents the Victorian town.  Lambethans may think it looks familiar; G.E. Street designed it and it is very similar to his spire at St. John’s, Vassall Road, between Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road. 

Pevensey is well-known for its huge Roman fort, known as Anderida, which was one of the Saxon Shore forts of late Roman Britain.  Its walls enclose ten acres.  Within this enclosure there stand the remains of a Norman castle, which had a central role in the story of William the Conqueror and offers an interesting story of mediaeval sieges.  Soldiers were stationed in the castle as recently as the Second World War.  This great monument is set in an attractive village, with a parish church and high street close by and another church - Westham - just to the west.   

The cost of a place will be £27, as in 2010.  Passengers may join the coach at the Old Vic at 8.45 a.m. and then from Streatham High Road.

All enquiries should be directed to the organiser:

Stephen Humphrey, 1 Cornish House, Otto Street, London, SE17 3PE (Tel.: 020-7735 6716; E-mail: stephenhumphrey456@btinternet.com).

SOUTHWARK AND LAMBETH

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

VISIT TO SUSSEX

By coach on Saturday, July 9th, 2011

The destinations will be Bishopstone, Seaford, Eastbourne and Pevensey.

These places at the eastern end of the South Downs offer many ancient buildings, including the pre-Conquest and Norman church at Bishopstone, and the great Roman fort of Anderida at Pevensey, within whose enclosure stand the remains of a Norman castle.  Eastbourne is a gracious Victorian resort, but derives from a mediaeval village, ‘Old Town’, a little inland.

COST: £27

The coach will leave from the Old Vic at Waterloo at 8.45 a.m. and from Streatham High Road at 9 a.m. or soon afterwards. Return in mid-evening.

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To apply, please return this form to Stephen Humphrey, 1 Cornish House, Otto Street, London SE17 3PE (Enquiries: 020-7735 6716).

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