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Tide Mills

Near Newhaven, East Sussex

The ruins of a tide-powered mill village, a seaplane base and a children's hospital.

In the 1760s a mill driven by the tides was built here, and a small village grew up around it. After the mill closed, the site became home to a seaplane base in the First World War and a children's hospital.

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When
Cleared 1939
Where
50.7900, 0.0680
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Free to explore, off the A259 between Newhaven and Seaford.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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