Where In Sussex

Four clues, three are general knowledge, one is cryptic. The answer is a location somewhere in Sussex (East or West). Can you guess where we are today?

CLUE ONE:

Today’s town is an amalgamation of several smaller towns and villages that have all merged into one urban sprawl over the years. The town used to be served by two railway lines and once had a separate rail terminus for one of them. Today though, only one line exists, the other facing the axe of Dr Beeching, which resulted in the army blowing up a large viaduct to the north of the town in the 1970’s.

CLUE TWO:

Set on the coast, today’s location was the first resort in the UK to allow mixed bathing, back in 1901. The seafront is dominated by a large, Grade 1 listed modernist building and today the resort is slightly drab, run-down and does not share the razzmatazz of other nearby resorts, which seems to suit the large number of older residents in this town, which is regularly referred to as “God’s Waiting Room”!

CLUE THREE:

The roots of today’s location are believed to go back to the Bronze Age, although the town did not really start to grow until the building of the sea wall in 1882. In the Old Town area stands St Peter’s Church, on land granted to the bishop by King Offa, in 772AD. Today, King Offa is remembered in the name of the town’s internal “by pass”, which forms part of one of the biggest bottlenecks on the south coast.

CLUE FOUR:

Short Rebecca owned the place where Jack fell down, when he wasn’t off when using his eyes for this purpose.

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