North Cottage, Sea Lane
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North Cottage, Sea Lane
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 20 Jul 2008
The oldest buildings in Kingston Gorse, there are two cottages here, North Cottage is the first whilst the second partially obscured one is Lighthouse Cottage. The latter gives a clue to their origins built to house the workers of the local beach signal station that were built sometime between 1783-1813 (They are marked on the 1st OS Map of 1813 but not on Yeakell & Gardner's map of 1783). The rest of the hamlet was constructed between the wars when large swathes of the Sussex coastline was developed. In this instance the hamlet is a private estate though Sea Lane remains a public footpath from East Kingston to the beach.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.80274
Longitude
-0.462351