A Guide to the Coast of Sussex
by MacKenzie Edward C Walcott (9781459017887)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOUTH COAST OF ENGLAND. SUSSEX. The Geology of the coast of Sussex comprises the following formations:half way between Hythe and New Romney in Kent, we find westward the Weald clay; beds of sand and clay extend eastward to Pevensey, while from Pevensey to Langley occurs the west turn of that depressed horse-shoe bend of the Weald clay, of which the eastern termination is found beyond New Romney. Between Eastbourne and Langley we have firestone, Shanklin clay, and gault; from Southbourne to Brighton chalk occurs; the valley of the Adur is composed of alluvium, blue clay, and silt; Shoreham stands on alluvium and sand with comminuted shells drifted up by the wind. The southern base of the Downs from Shoreham to Worthing includes clay, sand, and gravel, outliers of the Isle of Wight and London basins ; their summits and valleys are composed of diluvium, ochraceous clay and gravel; boulders and large blocks of sandstone with coarse breccia abounding throughout the district from Brighton to a point midway between Shoreham and Littlehampton. The London- clay formation then occupies the coast to the extremity of the county. The remarkable features of Sussex are its Weald and Downs ; the prevalence of Early English architecture, and of Anglo-Saxon names. A knowledge of the patronymics of those settlers who occupied its marshes in preference to their sterile home on the shores of the Baltic is indispensable before we can ascertain the derivation of many of the names of the towns in the neighbourhood of the coast. They are the followingHastingas, Pidinghas,-(Pidinghoe, f. e., Pidinghas-hill), Ofingas, Somtingas, Rotingas (Rotting- dean), Teorringas (Tarring), Weorthingas, Storringas, Brihtlingas, MScingas (Meeching), Gystlingas, Fleccingas (Fletching), Mcellingas, Angmeringas,...

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