The bare flint footings of a Georgian tide-mill village near Newhaven, cleared in the 1930s and now a quiet stop on the coast path
East of Newhaven the coast path passes a scatter of low flint walls on the shingle, all that remains of Tide Mills, a working village built around a tidal mill in the late 1700s. A tide mill traps the incoming sea behind a pond and lets it out through a water wheel as the tide falls, grinding corn on the ebb. The mill and its village of cottages, workers and a small station did well through the 1800s, then declined; the last residents were moved out in the 1930s and the buildings pulled down. Foundations, the mill race and platforms are what you walk among today, reached on foot from Bishopstone or along the King Charles III England Coast Path from Seaford. The ruins sit on the shingle coast at the edge of the South Downs.
