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Kingsland Close, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, BN43 6NR

In Kingston by Sea

This area was once a small settlement called Egypt that consisted of a few cottages and the Kingston Inn. Much of this was cleared away in the 1960s becoming the Malthouse Trading Estate. The former inn's position was roughly towards the centre of the current warehouse.

Travis Perkins builders' merchant can be seen with City Plumbing in the distance on the north side of the road.

Prior to 1971 the road rose to bridge the sidings that served Kingston Railway Wharf to the right. Much has now changed with a newish Aldi supermarket on the right and the former wharves on the left about to be redeveloped. The road is the A259.

Formerly BOC Edwards now an independent entity. A bit of an optical illusion here as the far building, Barnes DAF, cannot be accessed from Brighton Road as it is separated by the railway line. Furthermore, it was roughly at this point that the former sidings that served Kingston Wharf left the line then descended at 1 in 82 gradient underneath a bridge that carried the A259 over the track. Built in the 1840s, redesigned in 1938 they were pulled up in 1968 and everything demolished soon after.

Looking west towards Shoreham.

Recently opened on the site of Malthouse Trading Estate.

As the name suggests these warehouses lining the A259 were built on the site of a former malthouse which operated from 1844 until its closure in 1969. The buildings were demolished in 1971 along with the former bridge that carried the road over railway sidings servicing Kingston Wharf.

Supermarket on Brighton Road.

Beginning at Stamco in the east and finishing at Corralls in the west much of the wharf with the exception of a breakers yard is neglected and unused. The wharf has a long history, cross channel packets operated from here between 1788-1847 until the LBSCR, who had recently purchased the service, decided to move to Newhaven after being unable to agree terms with the harbour authorities. The first wharf was built in the 1840s with a set of sidings to join it to the nearby railway line and for many years was the main wharf for coal traffic, it was redesigned in 1938 which involved filling in basins and leaving a straight frontage along the Adur. With goods traffic falling and the council wanting to improve the nearby A259 which crossed the railway on a narrow bridge the sidings were pulled up in 1968 and with it went the coal yard. However in 1981 the wharf began to be used for aggregates and the production of concrete until that too ceased in 1996. Since then there has been growing battles between the residents across the water in Shoreham Beach and the planners about use of the wharf in the last few years a concrete batch processing plant, extension of the breakers yard and a waste facility have all been rejected by vociferous protests of those across the river. Consequently, much of the wharf remains unused.