(Bulverhythe - Landing place of the citizens)

Bulverhythe was a manor near Crowhurst and a haven for fishermen before the land rose and the water left the valley.

The area was used by the Romans to ship iron products from the bloomeries near Beauport to the port at Hastings.

Bulverhythe was originally known as Bolewarthethe which can be translated to "the landing place of the citizens", perhaps a reference to the fishermen or maybe to William the Conqueror's people. There is some evidence that William the Conqueror and his troops landed in this area, although it is possible that they landed further to the west near Hooe .

In 1310 the Lord of the manor John de Bretagne was granted a weekly market and an annual fair by King Edward II.

In 1359 a reference to Bulverhythe as a limb of the Cinque Ports is found in a document by Edward III , in which the manor was mentioned as supplying one ship together with Petit Ihamme . The area was also used to execute felons within the Cinque Ports , the criminals were drowned in a local watercourse called Stordisdale.

The area was very marshy, and a ferry is mentioned in 1335. The chapel of St Mary is described as having a causeway which linking it to Hastings in 1369.

Bulverhythe was important as an export port for the Wealden iron industry until the late 1700's, probably shipping the cannons and iron goods from the Ashburnham forge and foundry .

On 14th january 1748 the Dutch East Indiaman the Amsterdam ran ashore about 1/2 mile from Bulverhythe. The ship was a new ship of about 700 tons armed with 52 guns and with an original crew of 333 men. The ship was on its way from Amsterdam to Batavia with a cargo of silver, and had taken 2 months to get from Amsterdam to Beachy Head, where she had lost her rudder and all control. The crew had lost about 100 men to sickness in this time. In recent times the wreck has been thouroughly excavated during the 1980's.

One of the great Martello Towers was built at Bulverhythe in the 1800's as a defense against Napoleon . The first gunner was in place in March 1806, and was a scottish gunner who had been invalided from the army in Europe.

In 1823 annual races were established at Bulverhythe Salts, the same area in 1841 was the termination point for the Brighton to Hastings main line railway service.

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