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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and the
Adur Valley & District, West Sussex, England
Local News
29 September 2001
Marlipin's Museum will be closing on Saturday 29 September 2001 and will not be opening until 2003. This is because of the building of the new adjunct at the rear.
Planning Application: SU219/01/TP
18 September 2001
The new community education booth was officially opened this morning by Adur Council leader Don Phillips. Also amongst those present were MP Tim Laughton & Councillor Tony Nicklen.
More details will appear in my September 2001 Newsletter.Widewater Lagoon page (by Ray Hamblett)
South Downs National Park : Proposed Area
http://www.countryside.gov.uk/reception/papers/Areaofsearchmap.jpgClick on the URL for the complete map
West Sussex County Council announce most paths are now open, unless they are inhabited or used by farm livestock, or farm animals are nearby.
The cycle path from Old Shoreham is officially open.
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
Glaucus@hotmail.com
Wildlife Notes
22 September 2001
Three Large White Butterflies and one Small White arrive to feed on the Verbena bonariensis in the warm south-facing front garden, on an overcast day with similar numbers as seen on most sunny days.
A Red Admiral prefers the Buddleia in the back garden. A Comma Butterfly settles on the leaves of the Hawthorn tree.Report by by Ray HamblettButterflies of Lancing
Butterfly Guide
Adur Butterfly PageWithin the last week a Robin and two Blue Titmice (feathered birds) have
arrived around the garden. (TQ 185 045)
Lancing Nature & History - September 2001 NewsletterReport by Ray Hamblett21 September 2001
I went for an extended look in the early evening at half-tide over the River Adur estuary between the Railway Viaduct and the Old Toll Bridge, which is the best viewing area. This was just in case the reported Osprey did turn up. I did not expect it to but I thought I would use the opportunity to have a good look around. The sentinel Redshanks quickly sounded an alarm call. The Mute Swans (20+) were the largest but the most spectacular birds present were a pair of Grey Herons that loomed large in the binoculars. The number of birds was not particularly large but the variety was better than a town garden after I adjusted by eyes to the mudflats and the rather sombre colours on a clear day with sun low in the sky after 6 o'clock. Gulls and waders predominated. Almost all the hundreds of gulls were Black-headed Gulls, (200+) all with distinctive red legs, with an occasional Herring Gull and just a solitary Great Black-backed Gull on a pole. The Redshanks numbered about 20, and the largest flocks wheeling around were the probing Dunlins (50+). Some still had their black belly of their summer plumage. I have always noticed that the estuarine Ringed Plovers (35+) seem to look plumper than the ones on the shingle of Shoreham Beach. The larger Lapwings (25+) had not yet arrived in their normal large flocks. On the green Sea Purslane vegetation a pair of Crows were intent on searching for food.20 September 2001
An Osprey has been reported to Sussex Ornithological Society from the River Adur near Shoreham Airport at 5:05 pm.
I was on the east side of the river about that time, and I did not see this raptor despite looking and having my binoculars. The sun was low in the sky and it was about half tide (3.5 metres).20 September 2001
The Goldfinches captivate the outskirts of Lancing Clump with their twittering melody and when seen their pretty appearance stands out from the still lush vegetation.19 September 2001
The Tide Chart forecasted a 7 metre tide at Shoreham, which is about 0.5 metre higher than the highest tides forecasted for the 1970s. The River Adur lapped at the sea walls but there was no likelihood of a breach. The tide rose to within about 0.5 metre of the highest I have observed in February 1983.
A Little Egret was feeding in the shallows which were much nearer the bank than usual and it flew low over the river to the airfield towpath on the opposite side of the river.
Link to Egrets at Thorney Island (1999)
Adur Estuary page
Adur Estuary SurveyAll day the numbers of House Martins seem to escalate and by early evening, the hundreds turning to over a thousand in Shoreham and Lancing, and in Shoreham Town Centre, especially around St. Mary's Church, they put on a spectacular aerobatic show, swooping low, all prior to their migration.
18 September 2001
There is a considerable amount of silt on Kingston Beach. The tide went out a very long way below the Chart Datum marker, the foot of the Thru'penny Bit (Harbour Control) was exposed, and the thick mud was nearly dangerous, in most parts the boots would sink below ankle depth in black smelly mud.
About 1 metre above Chart Datum, Kingston BeachThe conditions were unsuitable for prawning. In spring this mud gets scoured away and it usually arrives as a result of harbour dredging. In the upper-mid shore pools underneath the groynes, there was a solitary juvenile Ballan Wrasse and small prawns.
18 September 2001
The Information Booth at Widewater Lagoon is officially opened by Tim Laughton MP (East Worthing & Shoreham). It contains a picture display and information by Ray Hamblett and Steve Barker.
Widewater Lagoon page (by Ray Hamblett).17 September 2001
The distinctive red legs of a returning Redshank stood out clearly in the fading light at the low spring tide on the estuarine mud bank of the River Adur underneath from the Footbridge crossing the river at Coronation Green, Shoreham.
Usually I have difficulty in separating Swallows and House Martins with hundreds performing aerial acrobatics over Shoreham Beach including Widewater, where they were particularly common, numbering over several hundreds. However, today they were flying so low and so close that at times I was able to look down on them and it is then that their white upper midriff of the House Martins become clear.
Lancing Nature & History - September 2001 Newsletter
Lancing Ring Photographic Gallery for July
Poem or Literature
These are lines 112-114a of The Wanderer and may be rendered as follows:
Til bith se the his treowe gehealdeth--ne sceal naefre his torn to rycene,
beorn of his breostum acythan, nemthe he aer tha bote cunne,
eorl mid elne gefremman."Blest is he who keeps his troth. Never must a warrior too hastily express his heart's wrath, unless he, the eorl, knows first how to effect its cure
bravely." See "Anglo-Saxon Elegiac Verse" (LJR, Cambridge, 1993).
William Blake"When the senses are shaken, and the soul is driven to madness... when
the souls of the oppressed fight in the troubled air that rages... O who
hath caused this?"
- Wildlife
Web Sites
Hoverflies
of the UK
Common
Dragonflies and Damselflies (photographs)
British
Dragonfly Society Species Checklist
Sussex
Bat Group
Butterflies
of Lancing
Adur
Butterfly Page
Shermanbury
(Adur Valley)
Butterfly
Conservation Society
Wildlife
& Conservation Links (West Sussex)
The British Marine Life Study Society has an alternative web site address for its Homepage only:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ukwildlife
British
Naturalists' Association (link)
Find
the Sites of Special Scientific Interest using this link:
Friends
of the Earth SSSI Navigator
- Historical
Snippets
We probably do have the pre-English name of the Adur recorded in the Ravenna Cosmography as 'Nuba' / 'Novia' (see Rivet & Smith pp. 426-7), most likely a British *_nouia:_ 'new, fresh, lively'. (Paul Cullen).
Nuba
(for Nova R&C 68) is a settlement name derived from the name of the
river. Both the Adur and the Cuckmere are candidates for Ptolemy's Kainos
Limen (Novus Portus) and Ravenna's river Novia (R&C 267). The Ouse
can be precluded because the settlement Mutuantonis (R&C 69 (Lewes?)),
is easily related to Midewinde, the earlier river-name.
Tom Ikins
http://www.RomanMap.com
The
Roman Map of Britain
Britannia in the Ravenna Cosmography
http://www.kmatthews.org.uk/Ravenna_Cosmography/Index.html
The ‘Cosmography’ written by an unknown author in Ravenna during the early eighth century has never been fully explored as a source of Roman toponymy. This is especially true in Britain, which is less well served than many other parts of the empire by Roman-period geographers. Full of corruptions, with little evident logic in its ordering of names, the Cosmography has always been regarded as less useful than Ptolemy’s Geography, the Antonine Itinerary or the Peutinger Table in providing the names of places, rivers and islands for Britain in the Roman period. However, of all the ancient geographical sources relating to Britain, it contains more names than any other and this fact alone should encourage us to examine it in greater detail.
Notitia
Dignitatum (Link)
Notitia
Dignitatum (Vortigern Link)
Roman
Roads in Britain
350 years ago on 3 September 1651, the Battle of Worcester took place.
http://www.battleofworcester.co.uk/
King Charles II was on
the run before finally escaping from near
Shoreham on 15 October 1651.
- Words
of the Week
hirundine | hrLndLn, hrLndLn | a. & n. M19. [f. L hirundo swallow + -INE1.] A adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a swallow. M19. B n. A bird of the swallow family Hirundinidae. L20
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from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
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by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.
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| 55 | Adur World Oceans Day Committee Meeting |
| 56 | Ropetackle - Group Consultation with SEEDA |
| 57 | Train Crash at Lancing |
| 58 | Ropetackle Outline Plan Initial Comments |
| 59 | Plane Crash at Sharpthorne |
| 60 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions |
| 61 | Repair of the Old Fort |
| 62 | Plane Crash at Shoreham |
| 63 | HMS Shoreham |
| 64 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Update |
| 65 | Adur Festival 2001 Preview |
| 66 | Ropetackle Outline Plan - Objections |
| 67 | Shoreham May Day Celebrations |
| 68 | Ropetackle Outline Plans - Plan |
| 69 | Plane Crash at Lancing |
| 70 | Foot & Mouth Disease Restrictions Lifted - Footpaths Open |
| 71 | Escape of King Charles II Exhibition |
| 72 | Adur World Oceans Day Preview |
| 73 | Adur World Oceans Day |
| 74 | General Election |
| 75 | End of the Adur Festival |
| 76 | Plane
Crash Averted at Lancing
Conservative Independent Alliance |
| 77 | Farmer's Market |
| 78 | Ropetackle Public Meeting |
| 79 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Reminder |
| 80 | Ropetackle Planning Meeting Report |
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| 82 | Shoreham
Air Show
350th Anniversary of the Battle of Worcester |
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| 85 | Closure
of the Marlipins
Widewater Information Booth |
| 86 | Round the World by Helicopter |
Adur
Torpedo was written, designed and distributed by Andy
Horton.
