Sussex Pad Hotel
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Sussex Pad Hotel
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 18 Oct 2008
The current building dates from 1906 after the previous one burnt down in October the previous year. The name derives from its position at the end of a causeway or 'padway' that linked the then inn to the ferry over the River Adur. Pads were the name of the wooden faggots sunk into the marsh to elevate the road over the boggy ground. The inn gained a degree of notoriety in the 18th century being a haunt of smugglers who favoured its isolated position on the junction of the main east-west route as well as the road to Steyning via Coombes something it retained into the 19th century until first the lease, then the freehold was purchased by Nathaniel Woodard the founder of nearby Lancing College. The college still own the freehold today.
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Image Location
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50.841727
Longitude
-0.297302