Talk:Sussex coast

I am unsure of the raison d'ētre for this article. Its opening remarks make statements that are sweeping in the extreme - and often trite as well. With a southern coastline, it is pretty obvious that it faces the sea, and the fact that it is located within a an easy drive of London is the cause of its one-time predominantly tourist nature. That said, a glance at a map will show that the statement "largely built-up with a variety of resort towns and ports" is not particularly true. Train services from the major towns are all heavily commuter-based - they are much more than seaside resorts! There are big exceptions to that - Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton still maintain their tourist trade. But what might have been the case fifty years ago, is not the same today; and a good deal of the coast does not fit that description.

The coast is actually made up of many more than two sections:

• The article never mentions the ports included in the opening second sentence: there are four (see my additions) but also many inlets/harbours for small boats
• The "two main sections" are not quite accurate:
  • West Sussex begins at Chichester Harbour and the coast around to Pagham is lowlying, some marshland
  • from Bognor Regis to Brighton does fit the statement above
  • Rottingdean to Eastbourne is the area where the South Downs reach the sea: chalk cliffs etc
  • Pevensey Bay is flanked by marshland again, Eastbourne at west end, Bexhill the other
  • Bexhill to Pett Level Clay and sandstone cliffs, where the Weald reaches the sea; here is Hastings
  • Pett Levels marshland again
  • Rye Bay: beaches and sand dunes

Finally, I note that the appellation "Sussex Coast" is one given by a commercial organisation, located in Littlehampton. Peter Shearan 17:53, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

I have completed my rewrite of the article Peter Shearan 14:14, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton

What's going on here, why on Earth are there 2 articles for the same thing?

They're not the same thing though - Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton is a conurbation and urban area, the Sussex Coast is, well, a coast. This article, for example, mentions Selsey Bill, Eastbourne and Hastings, none of which are part of Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton.

The urban area definitely deserves its own article - it's the 12th largest in the UK and all of the other comparable urban areas such as the Portsmouth Urban Area have articles. Whether the Sussex Coast deserves its own article (rather than just being mentioned in the geography sections of East Sussex and West Sussex) seems more debatable. As there are no articles on Kent Coast and Hampshire Coast I'd suggest perhaps not.

Instead of merging this article into Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton I'd therefore suggest merging it into East Sussex and West Sussex

Demograph 20:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

• I'd agree with Demograph completely, this article should be mereged into East Sussex and West Sussex. Paste 18:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

me too! - although I would more go for complete deletion as being a waste of time. Most of what is said here is included in the two articles in one way or another Peter Shearan (talk) 13:22, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I went for a merge to Sussex instead. ++ MortimerCat (talk) 21:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)