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Geneva Road, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9DP

Unmade road connecting Fort Road to Hill Crest Road sometimes known locally as Chalky Hill. There is a terrace of old coastguard cottages set at a right angle to the road half way up.

Dating from the early 19th century they overlook the harbour and for many years were the only buildings in the vicinity. The town reached the cottages by the early 20th century and had engulfed them during the interwar years. They are located at a right angle off Geneva Road.

Laid out in the 1920s as the town of Newhaven expanded southward. It follows the contours of the hill the town is built on running south then west from Bayvue Road.

The road leading south to the fort and west beach. The houses to the left are the rear of Image whilst the long terrace on the right was constructed towards the end of the 19th century.

Former hotel constructed in 1891 on the junction of Fort Road and Gibbon Road. Previously known as the Sheffield Arms and named after the local landowner, the hotel/pub only changed its name four years ago. There has been mention of a previous pub bearing the same name on or near the site from the 1860s serving a small shanty town that grew up whlst the nearby breakwater was being constructed. The area between the two road junctions on the left (Court Farm Road and Gibbon Road) was once a tramway connecting the nearby Meeching Quarry to the harbourside and operated between 1878 and 1939.

Part of the recent completed flats that lie at the southern end of West Quay. There are four blocks in total all named after ferries that once plied their trade between Newhaven and Dieppe. See also Image and Image

Public house on the corner of Fort Road and Gibbon Road. Built in 1891 and for many years was the Sheffield Arms Hotel.

A prominent building on Fort Road, dating from 1891; apartments above.

Named after the Gibbon family who were 18th century lords of the manor, their cousin was Edward Gibbon, the famous historian. The road first appeared in the early 20th century and was gradually extended further up the valley over the following decades. The houses on the left were built on the site of a former tramway built in 1878 by the Earl of Sheffield to link the West Quay with Meeching Quarry and was pulled during the Second World War.