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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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Pevensey, East Sussex:
[Pemsey] 'haven'; mouth of several small rivers, including the
Pevensey Haven, running into Pevensey Bay in the
English Channel.
TQ6504; sheet 199
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Pemsey. |
Scituation
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Is the next River Westward and likewise Noted to have been
in former time a Considerable Haven, The Remains of a very
large Antique Castle yet in being seems to admit that
Conjecture, That with the Town is Scituate about a Mile from
the Wash of the Sea, and about 5 or 6 Miles Eastward of the
Head of Beachy. |
Condition of
the River
Alteration in
few years
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The River passes thro' a large levell piece of Ground up
towards the Wild of Sussex, about 4 or 5. years since, (as
we were told) Vessells of 50 and 60 Tuns took in their Lading
at the Bridge of the Town, But of late a shutt hath been
made upon the River it self very near the Havens Mouth
beyond wch: no Vessells can now pass.
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The use of it
irrecoverable
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These Levells as those of Rye are without doubt in great
part recovered from the Sea, and howsoever Considerable
this Haven may have been, 'tis now in our Opinion
irrecoverably lost, for a Vessell of 14 Tuns meets wth:
great difficulty to get within the Mouth of it, and as much
to get out, therefore proper for no use in the Service of
the Navy.
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museum inventory notes and transcription of the chart |
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summary relating to this harbour |
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South Coast Harbours 1698
report by Edmund Dummer and Thomas Wiltshaw |
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