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Meeching Road, NEWHAVEN, BN9 9RG

Meeching was the former name for Newhaven which changed its name in the 16th Century after the course of the River Ouse changed to create a new haven here.

Meeching Road, Newhaven.

Built in 1811, and closed in 1938. Used as a Flea Market from the 1970s and now closed for the last few years.

Memorial to the Canadian Forces who left Newhaven on the ill fated Dieppe Raid.

Running between Image to the south and South Way to the north. It was laid out in the late 1890s and completed by the turn of the century. The road has a claim to notoriety in that it was the place Lord Lucan's Ford Corsair was discovered on Sunday 8 November 1974 believed to have been left here sometime between 5-8am.

The southern part of the ring road that bypasses the centre of Newhaven for traffic travelling west. When constructed in the 1970s the road utilised a couple of already existing roads; Meeching Avenue and part of Meeching Rise, then demolished Dacre Road, Church Road and Sussex Place before utilising the open space left by the route of the old shingle railway that once linked Newhaven Town station to the beach beneath Castle Hill. In the process Chapel Street was split in two access provided by an underpass.

The date 1904 is shown on the house to the right which is a good indication on when the rest of the houses in the street were built.

Meeching is the original name of Newhaven, the latter gradually taking over the name of the settlement from the 16th century onwards. This view takes in the crossing of South Way and looking towards its junction with High Street. Prior to the ring road being built in the 1970s the junction on the left was with Meeching Rise whilst on the right was the junction with Dacre Road in the middle of which stood the Newhaven Transport Memorial which was moved in 1977 to a spot by the river and then onto Image in the 1990s. Beyond the road junction where the trees are was once the site of the town's police station whilst on the left the cleared site was once a large house called Saxonholme which was demolished in 2006 and next door to that on the site of Image was the town's fire station.

This is the southern end now split in two by the ring road. The terraces on the left were built sometime in the last quarter of the 19th century.