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Gibbon Road, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9EP

Newhaven Port looking north eastwards with ferry terminal (right) and swing bridge on horizon

Looking across Newhaven Harbour from Newhaven Fort

Once the road to Meeching Court Farm now an access road for the houses that line the route and a couple of caravan parks. Taken from the junction with Quarry Road.

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.

Now containing an industrial estate but was once owned and operated by the Earl of Sheffield and also included ice houses built into the chalk for storage of ice which was imported into Newhaven and moved from the quayside to the quarry via a tramway. The recreation ground in the foreground is another legacy from the Earl of Sheffield and contains the town's cricket and football grounds.

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.

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.

Looking inland from Castle Hill. In the foreground is Fort Road the home to Newhaven Town FC beyond to the left is Meeching Quarry now home to an industrial estate whilst to the right are the houses of the town of Newhaven that cling to the hill above the harbour.

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