A old town & port of New Shoreham was established per Norman conquerors towards the prevent of the 11th Century.

St Mary first state Haura church was built in a decade as a consequence the Domesday Book of 1086, and as much as this instance the town was placed out in a grid pattern which however au fond lives in the town centre in todays world. A church is single half a size of a original - the previous nave has completely fall.

A rise of Brighton, Hove & Worthing - & witharound particular a coming of the railway in 1840 - prepared the way for Shoreham-by-Sea's rise as a Victorian sea port, with many shipyards and an active coasting trade. Shoreham Harbour is however around commercial operation now.

Shoreham Beach, south of the town, occurs as shingle bank thrown up across a centuries per sea. When a harbour mouth was stabilised it was defended by [http://www.shorehamfort.co.uk Shoreham Fort]. Born-again railway carriages became summerperiod homes when much as the turn of the century, & Cottage Town, as it was so known, became residence for a short time to the early UK film industry. Shoreham Beach was cleared for defence reasons in a period of the Second World War and is now all developed for modern houses. Even so a Church of the Adept Shepherd, built around 1913, still stands.

Shoreham-by-Sea is section of the region administered by Adur District Council.

Transport
Shoreham Airport [http://www.shorehamairport.co.uk], actually located in Lancing to the west of the main town, is jointly managed by Brighton & Hove City Council and Worthing Borough Council and is set to expand in coming years. These are a oldest accredited airport in a UK, and the Art Deco terminal building is listed when of historical interest & has as well been utilized as a placed for the motion-picture photography of one of Agatha Christie's classic Poirot stories, "Lord Edgeware dies".

A town is as well served by Shoreham By Sea railway station, located on the West Coastway Line.

See Also
Lancing