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This is the first published
Electronic Newspaper for
Shoreham-by-Sea and District,
West Sussex, England
19 November 2000 : Volume 2 Issue 41
Local News17 November 2000
The Latest Developments of the New Monks Farm, Lancing, Development Brief (sometimes called Mash Barn)A Planning Application SU 98/0231/5 Ref: L/87/00/TP
has been submitted ostensibly for a Golf Course on 120 acres of land right in the centre of the Adur District at New Monks Farm by Wheelwright Estates (Michael Cox). Adur Planning Committee are opposed but the non-determination of the Application (within the time limit) has been appealed against and a Public Enquiry is expected.A special "Muck 'n Brass" edition of Adur Torpedo will be prepared.
Meanwhile all the information is on the Adur Valley eForum.Main points:
1) The plan appears to involve a certain amount (thousands of tonnes, probably) of inert spoil, with an Exemption Clause applied for which means that Land Fill tax can be avoided.
2) The same firm is already dipping building spoil at a tip near Brading in the Isle of Wight. The Golf Course has been passed there.An understated formal objection and questions has been sent to Adur Planning.
The Draft is attached. It was written rather hurriedly.
Rubbish illegally dumped at Cuckoo's Corner
7 November 2000
The A27 By-pass was flooded to bonnet depth in places between the Sussex Pad and the Lancing Manor roaundabout. The road was closed. It seems the design of the drains is inadequate and the water cannot even run on to the adjacent fields at New Monks Farm, which are sodden with a few puddles.National Floodline, Tel: 0845 988 1188
Weather Forecast
Please send any comments to: Andy Horton
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Wildlife Reports
16
November 2000
I
saw a Jay
amongst the evergreen in St. Mary's Churchyard, Shoreham, for the very
first time in the centre of the town.
The
fields of New Monks Farm Lancing, were still very damp with a few puddles.
15
November 2000
Cuckoo's
Corner is a lay-by a half mile so down
the Coombes Road from the A27 turn off for Lancing College and the Sussex
Pad. It has a collection of old trees which provide a magnet for birds.
A flock of about 50
Long-tailed Tits were singing in the lower
branches of the ivy-adorned 12 metre + high trees. This bird is not a titmouse
at all and is much smaller than a Pied Wagtail, they actually looked smaller
(apart from the long tail) than the
Wrens
which
all shared the branches, and there was a Chaffinch
in the understory of evergreen vegetation.
The
floods had receded considerably apart from large puddle in the Ricardo
Test Bed field.
13
November 2000
The
Sparrowhawk
that has taken up residence centering on Gordon Road, Shoreham, and feeding
along the railway line and in the Middle Road allotments seems to have
displaced the Kestrel
that has been a regular for at least 10 years.
9 November
2000
One
Crow
amongst
a flock of at least 25 birds on
Kingston
Beach, between the second and third groyne from the west, repeatedly
dropped a mollusc of some sort on to the shingle beach. I doubt if it has
had much success. The usual dropping area (but this may be gulls) is on
the concrete near the Life Boat Station, which is sometimes covered with
mussel,
cockle
and
winkle
shells.
8 November
2000
About
a thousand Lapwings inhabit
the mud flats near the Toll
Bridge at low tide, together with Redshanks, Black-backed Gulls, and
thousands of Black-headed Gulls, but these numbers are not exceptional
for the Adur.
All
the streams running off the Downs are in full flood, but they have been
as swollen as much before in January during the last 20 years. A Heron
wades in the flooded fields near Lancing College. Mash Barn is is also
flooded in parts but only to a depth of a few centimetres. The A27 near
the Sussex Pad is closed to all vehicles and is completely under water
to car bonnet depth in places.
5-6
November 2000
Steady
rain starts but locally it is not exceptional and the minor disruptions
in the Adur district are scarcely worth a mention when compared to the
flooded villages, towns and cities in the other parts of England &
Wales, e.g. Uckfield town centre in East Sussex is again flooded to a depth
of over a metre.
Local
Climate notes
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Words of the Week
fosse
| fs | n. Also foss. LOE. [(O)Fr. f. L fossa: see FOSSA n.1] 1 A
canal, a ditch, a trench; esp. one serving as a barrier or defence, a moat.
Earliest as a name (now the Fosse, Fosse Way) of one of the four great
Roman roads in Britain, so called from the ditch on each side, and probably
running from Axminster to Lincoln. LOE. 2 A deep hole or pit; a grave
or place for sacrifice. L15-M19. 3 Anat. = FOSSA n.1 M18.
1
R. GRAVES Strengthening the ancient City ramparts, clearing and deepening
the choked fosse. 2 F. FAWKES A deep round foss he made, And on the kindling
wood the victim laid.
fossed
a. (rare) surrounded (as) by a fosse L17.
shard | d | n.1 & v. Also sherd | d | . [OE sceard corresp. to OFris. skerd cut, notch, MLG skart crack, chink, MDu. scarde, schart flaw, fragment (Du. schaard), (M)HG scharte, ON skaror notch, gap, f. Gmc base also cf. SHEAR v. Cf. SCARTH n.1.] A n. I 1 A gap in an enclosure, esp. in a hedge or bank. Also (rare), a notch in the blade of a tool. Now dial. OE. b An intervening stretch of water. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
II 2
a A piece of broken pottery etc.; spec. = POTSHERD. OE. b transf.
& fig. A fragment, esp. of something brittle; a sliver; Sc. a worn
or decayed remnant of something. M16. 3 A scale of a reptile. rare.
Only in LME.
2b
U. LE GUIN Shards of splintered bone stuck out like toothpicks. J. UPDIKE
Their shattered name, a shard of grandeur.
B
v. rare. 1 v.t. & i. Break or become broken into fragments or slivers.
L16. 2 v.t. Notch the blade of (a tool). dial. M18.
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from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
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Poem of the Week
Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts (extract)
Big
Jim was no one's fool, he owned the town's only diamond mine,
He
made his usual entrance lookin' so dandy and so fine.
With
his bodyguards and silver cane and every hair in place,
He
took whatever he wanted to and he laid it all to waste.
But
his bodyguards and silver cane were no match for theJack
of Hearts.
.
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2 August
2000
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Adur
Valley eForum covering all aspects of life in the Adur Valley commences.
You can join by spending a few minutes on the following site, and then
you can post messages on almost anything about life in Shoreham-by-sea
and the Adur Valley, including, Lancing, Sompting, Southwick, Steyning
and the smaller villages in the valley.
THE
BEST WAY TO JOIN THE
is to click on the link to the
logo, and register as a new member. Allow 10 minutes on-line, but the process should be much quicker.
Then you can go to the Adur Valley page and register to join.
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1) Receive mail in a daily bulletin.
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of the subjects in a daily digest.
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the latter applies, you will have to click on the menu item Messages.
These choices can be altered at a later date. They can also be altered by me, if you cannot work out how to do it.
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- c. 950 Salt Works
- New Monks Farm, Lancing is the location of the oldest proven salt works in Britain. Saltern Mounds have also been discovered on this site, Lancing. (This area is also known as Mash Barn.)
- Salt-making occurred from Saxon times until the 14th century all up the lower Adur Valley, including New Monks Farm at Lancing, Applesham, Coombes, Annington & Botolphs, Upper Beeding, Bramber, Spratt's Marsh and Sele.
- Salt-Making in the Adur Valley (refs. and map.)
- "An excavation by Con Ainsworth c.1971 of a ploughed-out saltern mound, one of a large group, found Saxo-Norman pottery but also "one rim and a joining body sherd....of Portchester Ware, dating to the tenth century. A scale-like deposit found on one sherd was analysed by D Shelverton and found to contain substances demonstrating that the pottery vessel had been used for boiling concentrated brine."
- There is also evidence found of a Post Hole and a Hearth.
- First Internet Source (located by Ray Hamblett)
- Report on the Adur Valley eForum
- Ray Hamblett's Web Page
Historical Snippets
<http://www.rchme.gov.uk/nmr.html>
Salt Works File (notes)
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Events
6 December
2000
Local
Music: Miller Anderson at the Waterside
(Lady Jane)
(returning
from his tour in America)
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