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Military interest in active camouflage has its origins in Second World War studies of counterillumination. The first of these was the socalled diffused lighting. Seaford, East Sussex Wikipedia. Seaford is a coastal town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England. Lying east of Newhaven and Brighton and west of Eastbourne, it is the largest town in Lewes district, with a population of about 2. In the Middle Ages, Seaford was one of the main ports serving Southern England, but the towns fortunes declined due to coastal sedimentation silting up its harbour and persistent raids by French pirates. The coastal confederation of Cinque Ports in the mediaeval period consisted of forty two towns and villages Seaford was included under the Limb of Hastings. Between 1. Jaspal Jandu. Glenn Beanland. Christian Fletcher. Tom Putt. Nick Rains. Peter Eastway. Christian Fleury. Doug Segal. Michelle Novak. Bill Leigh Brewer. David L. Nicholas. Welcome to the Bureau of Land ManagementBLM, General Land Office GLO Records Automation web site. We provide live access to Federal land conveyance. Exhibitor Sign Up Information The Collingswood Book Festival organizers welcome authors, new and used booksellers, and exhibitors of book related merchandise. Volume 222 published on. Introduction Making Parents Reproductive Technologies and Parenting Culture Across Borders Charlotte Faircloth and Zeynep. French burned down the town several times. In the 1. Seaford were known as the cormorants or shags because of their enthusiasm for looting ships wrecked in the bay. Local legend has it that Seaford residents would, on occasion, cause ships to run aground by placing fake harbour lights on the cliffs. Seafords fortunes revived in the 1. Lewes and London. It became a small seaside resort town, and more recently a dormitory town for the nearby larger settlements of Eastbourne and Brighton, as well as for London. The traditional Sussex pronunciation of the name has a full vowel in each syllable sea ford. However, outside Sussex, and increasingly within, it is commonly pronounced with a reduced vowel on the second syllable seafed. GeographyeditThe town lies on the coast near Seaford Head, roughly equidistant between the mouths of the River Ouse and the Cuckmere. The Ouse valley was a wide tidal estuary with its mouth nearly closed by a shingle bar, but the tidal mudflats and salt marshes have been inned protected from the tidal river by dykes to form grassy freshwater marshes grazing marsh. To the north the town faces the chalk downland of the South Downs, and along the coast to the east are the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, and Beachy Head. This stretch of coast is notified for its geological and ecological features as Seaford to Beachy Head. NSFW news and opinion. Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. All of the images, sound recordings, and videos used on this site are protected by copyright, but most of them can be shared for free for noncommercial uses. This contemporary shaker kitchen is the perfect addition to any modern kitchen space, featuring stunning grey island and bespoke storage solutions. Site of Special Scientific Interest. The River Ouse used to run parallel to the shore behind the shingle bar, entering the sea close to Seaford. However, a major storm in the 1. Meeching but renamed Newhaven. Part of the former channel of the river remains as a brackish lagoon. The town formerly had excellent beaches, which were supplied by longshore drift constantly moving sand along the coast from west to east. However, in the early 2. Newhaven Harbour and the harbour entrance was regularly dredged. These works cut off the supply of fresh sand to the beach. By the 1. 98. 0s the beach at Seaford had all but vanished, the shoreline becoming steep, narrow and largely composed of small boulders. This made Seaford attractive to watersports enthusiasts since water visibility was good and there was a rapid drop off into deep water but it discouraged more general seaside visitors. So in 1. 98. 7 a massive beach replenishment operation was carried out, in which around 1 million tonnes of material was dredged from sandbanks out to sea and deposited on the shore. During a severe storm in October of the same year a substantial amount of the deposited material on the upper part of the beach was washed out past low tide level, leading to questions in the House of Commons. The beach has been topped up several times since then, giving the town a broad beach of sand and shingle. The towns publicity website1. For many, the main attraction in Seaford is the beach. This has an obvious attraction in the summer, when the sea reaches temperatures up to 2. Celsius 6. 8 F. Seaford Beach with Seaford Head in the background. HistoryeditIn 1. Seaford was William Levett, of an Anglo Norman family long seated in Sussex. William Levett of Seaford owned the Bunces and Stonehouse manors in Warbleton, probably inheriting them from his father John Levett, who died in 1. Levett sold the estates in 1. Hastings. 1. 2The Levett family intermarried with other Sussex families, including the Gildredges, the Eversfields, the Popes, the Ashburnhams, the Adams, and the Chaloners. A seal with his arms belonging to John de Livet, Lord of Firle, was found at Eastbourne in 1. Politics and administrationeditFrom 1. Seaford was an urban district run by Seaford Urban District Council. In the local government reorganisation of 1. Lewes District Council area. This loss of independence was unpopular with Seaford residents and in 1. Zip Line Station Delta'>Zip Line Station Delta. Lewes, with a town council. Municipal services within Seaford are now provided by three tiers of local government the county council, the district council and the town council. The town council has 2. The Seaford Community Partnership is a body incorporating representatives drawn from all three tiers of local government and from local civic groups. The partnership seeks to advise on long term development strategy for the town. Currently the town council is composed of 1. Conservative, 7 Liberal Democrat and 1 Labour, 1 UKIP and 1 independent councillor. In the Lewes District council elections on 7 May 2. Conservative district Councillors and 3 Liberal Democrat district Councillors. For District elections the wards are the same five as for the Town council Central, North, East, West, South however they only return two Councillors to the District council. The parliamentary constituency of Seaford was a notorious rotten borough until its disenfranchisement in the Reform Act 1. Lewes constituency. Seaford returned three members of parliament who went on to become Prime Minister Henry Pelham represented the town from 1. William Pitt the Elder from 1. George Canning in 1. The Seven Sisters chalk cliffs to the east of Seaford. Seaford is currently part of the Lewes parliamentary constituency. In the 2. 01. 5 General election the constituency elected Maria Caulfield as MP,1. Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker by 1,0. Caulfield was formerly an NHS nurse. Seaford has been twinned with the town of Bnningstedt, Germany, since 1. Seaford has one of the longest serving town criers in England and Wales Peter White who was appointed to this honorary position in 1. Lewes District Council, and is now an appointee of Seaford Town Council. In 2. 01. 2 he was also appointed Serjeant at Mace, and his historic uniform for both crying and mace bearing is a replica of that worn by 1. Install Microsoft Office 2003 Wine. Century Serjeant William Woolgar. Seaford has the westernmost of the South Coast Martello Towers, number 7. Seaford lifeguards patrol the beach and water each weekend and bank holiday from May to September. They are made up of volunteers, mainly young people, who give thousands of unpaid hours every year to train and help keep the public safe. They have been recognised as the best equipped and trained non RNLI beach lifeguard unit in the country. In 2. 00. 9, Seaford became the first south east town to elect a Young Mayor. The towns youth voted Oscar Hardy as Young Mayor and Eleanor Homan, Deputy Young Mayor. Following the election of the first young mayor the system changed so that the Deputy Young Mayor was elected by the young people of the town and they would then serve for a year as deputy before serving a year as Young Mayor. Young Mayors Oscar Hardy 2. Elanor Homan 2. 01. Maddie Jay 2. 01. Amy Gough 2. 01. Georgia Colyer 2. Millie Hensley 2. Gabriella Edwards 2. Lords Neil Moffett 1. The current Deputy Young Mayor is Jessica Batchelor and she will serve as mayor from June 2. Seaford Cricket Club have played at the Salts Recreation Ground since 1.