To love Newhaven is really difficult and yet, surprisingly, you find so many people do.

Much of what you see is very shabby, especially in the rundown town centre shopping area. Regeneration has been the objective for years and certainly some has been achieved and more is on the way.

The rest of East Sussex and neighbouring Brighton look to Newhaven as a convenient dumping ground for anything regarded as too unpleasant to be near them. The most recent intended infliction on the long-suffering Newhaven residents is a billion pound waste burner.

But Newhaven made an indelible historical mark when a ferry link with Dieppe was established in 1847 with associated trains to London and Paris.

The town became a key staging post for the rich and famous traveling between these two very fashionable European Capitals, staying overnight at the London & Paris Hotel then situated on the East Quay.

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