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High Street, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9PR

Looking down High Street to its junction with Bridge Street. In the left background is the 18th Century Bridge Inn (see Image) and on the right is the NatWest Bank, built c.1900 for the London and County Bank, designed by Godfrey Pinkerton. The bank branch closed in 2012 and the building has since been converted into a single residence. Both buildings are grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280332?section=official-list-entry and https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1197493?section=official-list-entry respectively.

The pub beyond the bridge is the "Bridge Hotel"

From Bridge Street. In the centre is The Ship Hotel Image

Built in the 17th century next to the original bridge over the River Ouse. Its most famous guest was King Louis Phillipe of France who stayed in the hotel on his first day of exile after the revolution of 1848 that deposed him. Newhaven High Street heads up the hill.

Sign for The Ship Hotel on High Street Image

Pub on High Street, with history going back to at least the early 19th Century, a Coronation dinner in honour of George IV taking place here in 1821.

18th Century pub in Bridge Street, opposite the end of High Street. Grade II listed - see https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280332?section=official-list-entry. On both sides of the bay is the inscription "Hosted the last King of France 1848", in reference to King Louis Philippe and his family spending their first night in England here, having fled from France during the 1848 Revolution.

Originally a narrow twitten heading south from the High Street to South Road. Many of the old buildings were demolished in the 1970s to make way for the new ring road and the space was filled in the early 1980s by a new shopping precinct.

Built as a cottage in the 17th it later became the New Inn changing its name to the Bridge Inn in 1784 when the new bridge over the river was opened. The owner had been one of the sponsors and the meeting to apply for the act of parliament required for the crossing had been held here. Over the years it has been either the Bridge inn, Bridge Hotel or just plain Bridge, as it is now. Its former brewery was located in Bridge Street which later became a Drill Hall which was removed when North Way ring road was constructed in the early 1970s. The inn's most famous visitor was a certain Mr Smith who lodged here one night in 1848 having disembarked from a ferry from Dieppe. Mr Smith was Louis Phillipe, the deposed King of France spending his first night in exile.

On the corner of Bridge Street and High Street is the Grade II listed https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1280332 Bridge Hotel Image It dates originally to the 17th century. The pub's main claim to fame was the overnight stay in 1848, of King Louis Philippe of France and his Queen Marie Amelie during their flight from the French Revolution. It is currently closed.