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.

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

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

From the port of Newhaven international ferries run to the French ports of Dieppe ( Transmanche Ferries ); and to Le Havre, ( LD Lines ) Although there are some derelict signs of the one-time train ferry operations, the harbour still sees a great deal of freight and passengers movement, with both the ferries running from this port being under three years old.

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) constructed their own wharf and facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.

The harbour was officially recognised as ' The Port of Newhaven ' in 1882.

During World War II, large numbers of Canadian troops were stationed at Newhaven, and the ill-fated Dieppe Raid in 1942 was largely launched from the harbour.

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 harbour in overcast sunlight

In addition to its railway operations, the Southern Railway inherited several important port and harbour facilities along the south coast, including Southampton, Newhaven and Folkestone.

The railway built its own wharf and warehousing facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.

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.

Following the opening of the line to Newhaven in 1847, the company improved the harbour there, building its own wharf and dredging the channel.

( Newhaven harbour was taken over by the military authorities and the ferries requisitioned for the duration of the First World War.

Newhaven Fort was built on the recommendation of the 1859 Royal Commission to defend the growing harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of England.

Dissatisfied with sandbanks at Leith, James himself sited a new harbour at Newhaven in May 1504, and two years later ordered the construction of a dockyard at the Pools of Airth.

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.

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

This was the origin of modern Newhaven.

Between 22 September 1916 and 2 December 1918, the port and town of Newhaven were designated a ' Special Military Area ' under the ' Defence of the Realm Regulations ', and the Harbour station was closed to the public.

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 Newhaven Marconi Radio Station was established in 1904, and started running in 1905.

The first formation of No. 242 Squadron RAF was on 15 August 1918 from numbers 408, 409 and 514 Flights at the seaplane station at Newhaven, Sussex.

Newhaven Town Council was formed in 1974.

A third, for all intents and purposes unused since its train ferry services ceased using it, was Newhaven Marine railway station.

When Lord Lucan vanished in 1974, his car was found in Newhaven, in Norman Road, with two types of blood in it.

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 village was once connected by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway to Edinburgh and Leith, but the line closed in 1956.

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

View of Newhaven marina & ferry port

Between 1572 and 1890, Newhaven was a major port for landing oysters.

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.

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

The port of Dover and the Channel Tunnel about three hours to the east ; Portsmouth Harbour an hour to the west and Newhaven Harbour about an hour to the east.

The LBSCR was a smaller railway than its LSWR neighbour, serving the port of Newhaven and several popular holiday resorts on the south coast and operating much of the south London suburban network.

A model of the ' Great Michael ' at the Victoria Primary School in Newhaven, Edinburgh | Newhaven, the port where she was built.

Jack Jones ' last public act was to unveil a memorial at Newhaven Fort on 7 December 2008, 70 years after British Battalion members returned to the port after the International Brigades were withdrawn from Spain.