Bexhill-on-Sea, E Sussex - Chantry Lane - Valentines postcard c.1910

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Chantry Lane, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
• Publisher:  Valentines
• Postally used:  no
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Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a town in the local government county of East Sussex, within the ancient and historic county of Sussex, in the south of England, within the District of Rother. It has a population of approximately 40,000. The Anglo-Saxon name for the settlement was Bexelei, from leah—a glade where the box tree grows.^[2]

The earliest evidence of occupation of the site came from the discovery of primitive boats at Egerton Park. The town came into official existence with the Charter of 772. In this charter, King Offa II, King of Mercia, granted land to Bishop Oswald to build a church. Three hundred years later, around 1066, William the Conqueror gave the Rape of Hastings, including the captured town of Bexhill (also referred to as the ""Badman Town""), to Robert, Count of Eu, as the spoils of victory.

The coastal confederation of Cinque Ports consisted, during the Middle Ages, of a confederation of 42 towns and villages in all. This included Bexhill, under the 'limb' of Hastings.^[3]

The manor of Gotham in Bexhill was held by the de Lyvet (Levett) family from an early date. (The Levetts held land at Firle, Catsfield, Ninfield, South Heighton and West Dean and elsewhere, some of which was lost due to an heir's bankruptcy.) Thomas de Lyvet, son of Richard, granted Gotham manor to James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele. Thomas's daughter Elizabeth, who married William Gildredge of Withyham, unsuccessfully disputed Gotham manor in 1445.^[4] The Gildredge family later lived at nearby Eastbourne, where by 1554 they owned much of the land. Today's Gildredge Park in Eastbourne is named for the family. Most of the Gildredge lands were carried by marriage into the Gilbert (now Davies-Gilbert) family of Eastbourne, who made the Gildredge manor house their own.

The church owned Bexhill Manor until Queen Elizabeth I acquired it in 1590 and granted it to Thomas Sackville, then Baron Buckhurst. Thomas became the first Earl of Dorset in 1603. In 1813, when the male line of the earldom had died out, Elizabeth Sackville married the fifth Earl De La Warr, and she and her husband inherited Bexhill. This early history can still be seen in street names, with Sackville Road, Buckhurst Road, De La Warr Parade, and King Offa Way being some of the most significant roads in the town. On 20 May 1729, a waterspout came ashore, became a tornado, and travelled 12 miles (19 km) inland to Battle and Linkhill; nine farms and properties received serious damage.^[5]

In the early 1800s the fashion for seaside recreation was boosted by The Prince of Wales, later to become George IV, with the building of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. The 7th and 8th Earls De La Warr dived enthusiastically into the creation of a resort at Bexhill with an ambitious building program which included shops and houses in London Road (then called Station Road), residential building on Hastings Road and beginning a sea wall and esplanade between Galley Hill and Sea Lane in 1883. John Webb, the London building contractor who constructed the Eastern Esplanade also developed the land which he had received in part payment and laid out Western Road and built the Devonshire Hotel. In 1884 the 7th Earl De La Warr added the suffix 'on-Sea' to Bexhill.^[6]

Smuggling was rife in the area in the early 19th century. In 1828, the local Little Common Gang were involved in what was known as the Battle of Sidley Green,^[7] Sidley being an area in the north of Bexhill.

type=printed

city/ region=bexhill-on-sea

period=pre-1914

postage condition=unposted

number of items=single

size=standard (140x89 mm)