Hastings Fishermen’s Museum
Hastings Fishermen's Museum is a museum dedicated to the fishing industry and maritime history of Hastings, a seaside town in East Sussex, England. It is housed in a former church, officially known as St Nicholas' Church and locally as The Fishermen's Church, which served the town's fishing community for nearly 100 years from 1854.Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
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- Type: Museum
- Description: grade II listed maritime museum in Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Fisherman’s Church” and “St Nicholas‘ Church”
- Address: Hastings
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Shipwreck Museum and Hastings Contemporary.
Shipwreck Museum
Museum
The Shipwreck Museum is an independent charitable museum in the historic Old Town of Hastings, UK. The museum has artefacts from many ships wrecked in the English Channel from the Goodwin Sands in Kent to Pevensey Bay in East Sussex, including the Amsterdam, a Dutch East Indiaman of 1749, and the Anne of 1690, a warship of Charles II.
Hastings Contemporary
Art gallery
Photo: yellow book, CC BY 2.0.
The Hastings Contemporary is a museum of contemporary British art located on The Stade in Hastings, East Sussex and is a not-for-profit organisation. The gallery opened in March 2012 as the Jerwood Gallery and cost £4m to build. Hastings Contemporary is situated 490 feet west of Hastings Fishermen’s Museum.
Winkle Island
Square
Winkle Island is a traffic island at the heart of Hastings Old Town in East Sussex, England, in the United Kingdom. It is part of a unique area in Hastings called 'The Stade' and the stretch of shingle beach from which Hastings' famous fishing fleet has been launched every day for over a thousand years. Winkle Island is situated 650 feet west of Hastings Fishermen’s Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hastings and Belmont.
Hastings
Photo: Natataek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hastings is a seaside town in East Sussex in southeast England. It's run down, but has budget accommodation and several sites of interest. Hastings is most famous for the battle that took place there in 1066 between King Harold's English and William the Conqueror's Normans.
Belmont
Suburb
Belmont is a suburb of Hastings in East Sussex, England. The village falls within the Borough of Hastings.
Ore
Suburb
Photo: Sandpiper, Public domain.
Ore is a large suburb of the urban area of Hastings, East Sussex, England. Formerly a village, it is still known and advertised locally as "Ore Village".
Hastings Fishermen’s Museum
- Categories: maritime museum, independent museum, church, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Hastings District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.85604° or 50° 51′ 22″ northLongitude
0.59525° or 0° 35′ 43″ eastOpen location code
9F22VH4W+C3OpenStreetMap ID
way 83151764OpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q15223257
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