It is also located on the Seaford Branch Line from Lewes ; there are two operating stations: Newhaven Town and Newhaven Harbour.

As might be expected with its proximity to the sea, Newhaven is home to a thriving marina: the Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club is based there ; Scuba diving, water ski-ing and surfboarding are also practised.

It is also the home of Next Generation Sports Centre ( now named David Lloyd Newhaven Harbour ), where the tennis player Andy Murray regularly played as a youngster.

It also played a role in the whaling industry, recalled in the name " Whale Brae " at the northmost end of Newhaven Road.

The investigation is expected by Newhaven Local & Maritime Museum to include not only the tide mill, but also to record the entire East Beach site: Mills, Railway Station, Nurses Home, Chailey Heritage Marine Hospital, Newhaven Seaplane Base and the later holiday homes and the Newhaven Marconi Radio Station of 1904.

A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled beach, a 15th-century castle and the churches of Saint-Jacques and Saint-Remi.

There were also branches to Newhaven, Eastbourne and Hailsham.

This additional traffic required substantial improvements to the railway infrastructure, notably at Newhaven harbour, where electric lighting was installed, but also at Three Bridges, where a new freight marshalling yard was established, and at Gatwick and Haywards Heath, where passing sidings were constructed so that the frequent passenger trains would not be impeded by the slower-moving freight.

The development of Newhaven harbour was also a stimulus to the development of both categories of traffic.

During 1920 plans were drawn up to extend the ' Elevated Electric ' on the main lines to Brighton, Worthing, Eastbourne, Newhaven and Seaford, and also to Epsom and Oxted, but these were overtaken by the Grouping.

The railway also acquired the Terminus Hotel next to Brighton station in 1877, and operated the London and Paris Hotel at Newhaven.

There are also ramps at Tooradin, Newhaven, Cowes, Warneet, Lang Lang, Grantville, Flinders, and Rhyll ( Phillip Island ).

The company have three outstations also in Newhaven, Eastbourne, Uckfield and Durrington.

Under British Railways they were also widely used on cross-country trains from Brighton to Cardiff and Exeter and on the Newhaven Boat Trains.

He also designed railway carriages and the steam engines for the LB & SCR cross-channel ferries which operated between Newhaven and Dieppe.

Newhaven lies at the mouth of the River Ouse, in the valley the river has cut through the South Downs.

Over the centuries the river has migrated between Newhaven and Seaford in response to the growth and decay of a shingle spit ( shoal ) at its mouth.

The business park has attracted a number of businesses to the area with the basepoint Newhaven Enterprise Centre being the focal point.

Glasgow musician Tony Donaldson has a house in Newhaven.

Dieppe has a ferry port, directly linked with the town of Newhaven, situated at the mouth of the river Ouse in East Sussex.

Further east, where the park's southern boundary lies much closer to the coast, it has been carefully drawn to exclude the urban areas of Worthing, Brighton and Hove, Newhaven, Seaford and Eastbourne, which had all made substantial encroachments onto the Downs during the 19th and 20th centuries.

A third station, Newhaven Marine, is notionally open, but has not had a public train service since 2006 because the roof is deemed unsafe.

Newhaven Fort, one of the Palmerston Forts, was built on Castle Hill on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour It was the largest defence work ever built in Sussex and is now open as a museum.

Newhaven was designated a conservation area, one of 40 such areas in Edinburgh, in 1977.

The Society of Free Fishermen of Newhaven, dating from at least 1572, was one of the oldest friendly societies in Scotland.

The Corsair was later found abandoned in Newhaven, its interior stained with blood and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe similar to one found at the crime scene.

However, the more common form of Side tank date from the 1840s ; one of the first of which was supplied by George England and Co. of New Cross to the contractors building the Newhaven, Sussex branch line for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1848.

The A25 road is one of the three cross-country two-digit numbered roads in the southeast of England, the others being the A26 from Newhaven to Maidstone and the A27 along the south coast.

Cruising is a major feature of the life of the Squib Fleet at Newhaven and Seaford YC and a version of the Squib cruised from Glasgow to Invernesss – and one crossed the Atlantic.

Newhaven Town railway station is one of two active railway stations serving Newhaven in East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Harbour.

Newhaven Harbour Railway Station is one of two active stations serving Newhaven in East Sussex, England, the other being Newhaven Town.

Lines from Brighton serve stations to Worthing, Portsmouth and Southampton in the west and via Lewes to Newhaven, Eastbourne, Hastings and Ashford, Kent in the east.

Industrial areas lay on the east side of the river as does all three of the railway stations which serve Newhaven ; Newhaven Town, Newhaven Harbour and the now redundant Newhaven Marine.

The three stations were North Bridge, opened on 22 June 1846 by the North British Railway ; General, opened on 17 May 1847 by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway ; and Canal Street, opened on 17 May 1847 by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway, serving Leith and Granton via a long rope-hauled tunnel under the New Town.

The Newhaven Lifeboat, the first of which was commissioned in 1803, is among the oldest in Britain, and was established some 20 years before the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

The open land surrounding Newhaven to the west, north and east is part of the South Downs National Park, although the town itself is excluded from the boundaries.

' His Faither's Breeks ', a Newhaven boy, by Hill & Adamson, 1843-1847 ; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland

' His Faither's Breeks ', a Newhaven, Edinburgh | Newhaven boy, by Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill, 1843-1847 ; from the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland

* September 20 – English forces under Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, land in Newhaven ( Le Havre ) to aid the Huguenots.

The latter, built at great expense at Newhaven and launched in 1511, was in length, weighed 1, 000 tons and was, at that time, the largest ship in Europe.

By 1640, the town's theocratic government and nine-square grid plan were in place, and the town was renamed Newhaven from Quinnipiac.

The development of Newhaven ended Lewes's period as a major port.

It is approximately seven miles north of Newhaven, and an equal distance north-east of Brighton.

The A26 from Maidstone to Newhaven ; and the A275 ( the London road ) both come in from the north.

The Vanguard Way, a long-distance footpath from London to Newhaven, passes through countryside east of the town.

Directly to the west is Southwick and then Shoreham-by-Sea, and a short distance to the east are Peacehaven and Newhaven.

Edward summarised the charges against Somerset in his Chronicle: " ambition, vainglory, entering into rash wars in mine youth, negligent looking on Newhaven, enriching himself of my treasure, following his own opinion, and doing all by his own authority, etc.

From the 17th century it was adopted as the main coach road to Croydon and East Grinstead, and then on to Newhaven and Lewes.

A train from Brighton collided with a boat train from Newhaven Harbour at 40 mph, six passengers were killed and twenty seriously injured.

The Ouse courses southeast past Glynde, where the tributary of Glynde Reach gushes into it ; and then passes Rodmell, Southease ( where there is a locally famous bridge ) and Piddinghoe, finally reaching Newhaven, where it splits industrial Denton Island from the mainland and provides an important harbour, and then flows into the English Channel, surrounded on either side by two long breakwater piers.

The behaviour of the Ouse and the conditions in its valley have been determined by its exit to the English Channel between Seaford and Newhaven.

This canalisation created access to a sheltered harbour, Newhaven, which succeeded Seaford as the port at the mouth of the Ouse.

* a western breakwater was constructed at Newhaven to arrest longshore drift and so cut off the supply of shingle to the spit.

Competitors construct their own rafts and paddle down the river, from Lewes to Newhaven.

Lying east of Newhaven and Brighton and west of Eastbourne, it is the largest town in Lewes district, with a population of about 23, 000.

However, a major storm in the 16th century broke through the bar at its western end, creating a new river mouth close to the village then called Meeching but renamed Newhaven.

However, in the early 20th century a large breakwater was constructed at Newhaven Harbour and the harbour entrance was regularly dredged.

** Newhaven F. C.

Newhaven is a town in the Lewes District of East Sussex in England.