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Tide Mills is a derelict village in East Sussex
East Sussex

East Sussex is a Counties of England in South East England England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel....
, England
England

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Plaque of Tide Mills Time Line
Remains of Tide Mills Mill Race Sluice Millpond Side
Tide Mills is a derelict village in East Sussex
East Sussex

East Sussex is a Counties of England in South East England England. It is bordered by the counties of Kent, Surrey, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex, and to the south by the English Channel....
, England
England

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. It lies about 2 km southeast of Newhaven
Newhaven, East Sussex

Newhaven is a town in the Lewes District of East Sussex in England. It lies at the mouth of the River Ouse, Sussex, on the English Channel coast, and is a ferry port for services to France....
 and 4 km northwest of Seaford
Seaford, East Sussex

Seaford is a coastal town in the county of East Sussex, England, on the south coast, east of Newhaven, East Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex and west of Eastbourne, East Sussex....
 and is near both Bishopstone
Bishopstone, East Sussex

Bishopstone is a hamlet with a population of about 200 people, located along a dead-end road west of Seaford, East Sussex. Bishopstone was an episcopal manor: hence its name meaning "dwelling place of the bishop"....
 and East Blatchington
East Blatchington

East Blatchington is a coastal village in East Sussex, and is nowadays the western part of Seaford, East Sussex where the two have gradually merged....
.

The old village

The village consisted of a large tide mill
Tide mill

A tide mill is a specialist type of watermill driven by Tide rise and fall.A dam with a sluice is created across a suitable tidal inlet, or a section of river estuary is made into a Reservoir ....
 and numerous workers' cottages, housing about 100 workers. The tide mill at Bishopstone was erected in 1761 by the Duke of Newcastle
Duke of Newcastle

Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a title which has been created three times in British history while the title of Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne has been created once....
, and was later owned and operated by William Catt (1770-1853) and his family.

The Sussex Archaeological Society
Sussex Archaeological Society

The Sussex Archaeological Society, founded in 1846, is the largest county-based archaeology society in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are in Lewes, Sussex....
 started a long-term project in April 2006 to record the entire East Beach site: Mills, Railway Station, Nurses Home, Hospital
Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital

The ruins of the Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital stand to the seaward side of Tide Mills, East Sussex, east of Newhaven, Sussex, Sussex, in England....
, RNAS Station
Newhaven Seaplane Base

Newhaven Seaplane Base is today the derelict site of an experimental seaplane base at the head of the beach east of Newhaven, East Sussex Harbour, seaward of Tide Mills, East Sussex, East Sussex, England...
 and the later holiday homes and the Marconi Radio station (1904). Apart from the dig, it will evolve into a huge collection of film, video, recollections and photographs logging the decline of the area.

The mill stopped in around 1900, the village was condemned as unfit for habitation in 1936 with the last residents forcibly removed in 1939. The area was in part cleared to give fields of fire and also used for street fighting training. The site was not used for target practice by Newhaven Fort
Newhaven Fort

Newhaven Fort was built on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour at Newhaven, East Sussex, on the south coast of England....
 Artillery, though this story is common locally.

The area accommodated vast numbers of Canadian troops during the Second World War.

There are the remains of a station on the Newhaven to Seaford line at . It started life as either Bishopstone Station (the Victorian OS map of 1879 shows it as this together with a short branch line to the mills) or Tide Mills Halt, but became Bishopstone Beach Halt in 1939 before its closure in 1942. This is different from today's Bishopstone railway station
Bishopstone railway station

Bishopstone railway station is located on the western side of Seaford, East Sussex in East Sussex, England. The station has one platform, and train services from the station are provided by Southern , and the station is on the Seaford Branch Line of the East Coastway Line....
 at .

Mill complex

Tide Mills Tidal and Wind Mill
Old photographs and paintings, together with a poem show that the tide mill complex included a windmill.

Access

Access is either via Mill Drove, an insignificant single track road which runs south west from the Newhaven and Seaford roads at approximately the point where one changes into the other (very limited parking, and access is via a pedestrian railway crossing at Bishopstone Beach Halt); or along the beach to the east of Newhaven Harbour.

See also

  • Watermills in the United Kingdom
    Watermills in the United Kingdom

    The use of water power in Britain was at its peak just before the Industrial Revolution. The need for power was great and steam power had not yet become established....


External links


  • The pound for the tide mill as a wildlife habitat