South East England
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Newhaven

Newhaven is a small coastal town in . The main landmark in the town is the Newhaven Fort. The parish includes part of the Brighton to Newhaven Cliffs Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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  • Type: Town with 13,200 residents
  • Description: town in East Sussex, England
  • Also known as: “Newhaven, East Sussex”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Newhaven Town railway station and Newhaven Harbour railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the main station serving Newhaven, East Sussex, England, the other being . A third station, , formally closed in October 2020, but had not had a train service since 2006.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Newhaven, , . It originally served boat train services to , but that was taken over by and then .

Museum
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a Palmerston fort built in the 19th century to defend the harbour at Newhaven, on the south coast of . It was the largest defence work ever built in and is now open as a museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bishopstone and East Blatchington.

Hamlet
Photo: Michael FORD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a rural village in the parish of , in Lewes district, in the county of , England. Village has a population of about 200 people, including the nearby hamlet of Norton.

Suburb
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is a coastal village which has merged into the western part of , contiguous with , in the civil parish of Seaford, in the Lewes district, in the county of , England. is situated 2½ miles east of Newhaven.

Newhaven

Latitude
50.7945° or 50° 47′ 40″ north
Longitude
0.0484° or 0° 2′ 54″ east
Population
13,200
Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB NHV
Open location code
9F22Q2VX+R9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17724170
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2641637
Wiki­data ID
Q573788
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Newhaven” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Newhaven”
  • Basque: “Newhaven”
  • Bengali: “নিউহেভেন”
  • Catalan: “Newhaven”
  • Cebuano: “Newhaven”
  • Chinese: “紐黑文”
  • Chinese: “纽黑文”
  • Dutch: “Newhaven”
  • French: “Newhaven”
  • German: “Newhaven”
  • Gujarati: “ન્યૂહેવન”
  • Irish: “Newhaven”
  • Italian: “Newhaven”
  • Japanese: “ニューヘイヴン”
  • Japanese: “ニューヘイブン”
  • Japanese: “ニューヘヴン”
  • Japanese: “ニューヘブン”
  • Kannada: “ನ್ಯೂಹೇವನ್”
  • Korean: “뉴헤븐”
  • Ladin: “Newhaven (East Sussex)”
  • Ladin: “Newhaven”
  • Lithuanian: “Niuhevenas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Newhaven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Newhaven i East Sussex”
  • Persian: “نیوهاون، اسکس شرقی”
  • Polish: “Newhaven”
  • Portuguese: “Newhaven”
  • Romanian: “Newhaven, East Sussex”
  • Russian: “Ньюхейвен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Newhaven, East Sussex”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیوهاون، دوغو اسکس”
  • Spanish: “Newhaven”
  • Swedish: “Newhaven”
  • Tamil: “நியூஹேவன்”
  • Telugu: “న్యూ హవెన్”
  • Turkish: “Newhaven, East Sussex”
  • Urdu: “نیو ہیون، ایسٹ سسیکس”
  • Urdu: “نیوہاوین”
  • Vietnamese: “Newhaven, Đông Sussex”
  • Vietnamese: “Newhaven, East Sussex”
  • Vietnamese: “Newhaven”
  • Volapük: “Newhaven”
  • Welsh: “Newhaven, Dwyrain Sussex”
  • Welsh: “Newhaven”
  • “Newhaven, Sussex Tlāpcopa”

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