by Tom Fort
Fisher, Rear-Admiral Ralph, may have hosted seances in Hayling Island, ref1
Fleet, The, lagoon in Dorset:
aquatic flora, ref1
eel fishermen, ref1
Fleming, Ian, writer:
leases White Cliffs, St Margaret’s Bay, ref1
rabid hatred of Germans, ref1
affection for Kent coast, ref1
Folkestone, Kent:
parish church, ref1
Creative Quarter, ref1
Channel Tunnel, ref1
seafront wasteland, ref1
regeneration plans, ref1
Leas Cliff Hall, ref1
Professor John Walton, ref1
Forbes, Stanhope, painter:
migrates to Newlyn, ref1
friends and colleagues, ref1
Ford Madox Ford, novelist:
and H. G. Wells, ref1
Romney Marsh, ref1
Fowey, Cornwall:
glorious road to, ref1
King of Prussia pub, ref1
Fox, Sarah Prideaux, author of Kingsbridge and its Surroundings, ref1, ref2
Gabbro, stone, ref1
Ganges, HMS, training ship, ref1
Gardiner, Allen, missionary:
leads mission to Tierra del Fuego, ref1
dies of starvation, ref1
Gardiner, Keith, painter living in Lamorna, Cornwall, ref1
Gardiner, Stanley, father of Keith, also painter in Lamorna, ref1
Gee, Ethel:
spy at Portland, ref1
imprisoned, ref1
Gehry, Frank, American architect, involved in aborted project in Hove, ref1
Geology of Wessex, The, Doctor Ian West’s website, ref1, ref2, ref3
George III:
visits scene of Halsewell disaster, ref1, ref2
bestows royal approval on Weymouth, ref1
health collapses, ref1
statue, ref1
George V:
sent to convalesce near Bognor, ref1
receives Mr Baldwin, ref1
did he say ‘Bugger Bognor’? ref1
sandcastle ref1
Gladstone, William Ewart, British Prime Minister, delivers last public utterance, ref1
Golden Cap, Dorset:
highest point on Channel, ref1
acquired by National Trust, ref1
Golding, William, novelist, on crossing the Channel, ref1
Goldstone, David, property developer, owns Land’s End, ref1
Goring, West Sussex:
and Richard Jefferies, ref1, ref2
beach huts, ref1
Gosse, Edmund, writer:
Father and Son, ref1
‘genius for inaccuracy’, ref1
last drive with father, ref1
Gosse, Philip Henry, naturalist:
rock-pooling with son, ref1
influence on age, ref1
disappointment over Second Coming, ref1
Graham, Winston, novelist, on Towan Beach, ref1
Greatstone, Kent:
bungalows and villas, ref1
Listening Ear, ref1
Great Mewstone, Devon:
angled crest, ref1
residents, ref1
Great Panjandrum, circular rocket-launcher, blows up at Weston-super-Mare, ref1
Greenwood, Paul, fisherman and writer:
appearance, ref1
fishing life, ref1
holiday homes, ref1
Scottish purse-seiners, ref1
shark-fishing, ref1
Gribben Head, Cornwall, ref1, ref2
Grockle, disparaging term for visitor, derivation of in Torquay, ref1
Guenther, US General Alfred, unveils monument on Slapton Sands, ref1
Halls, Monty, ex-Royal marine and TV presenter:
series about Cadgwith, ref1
seasickness, ref1
Hallsands, Devon:
situation, ref1
dredging, ref1
beach sinks, ref1
abandoned, ref1
ruins, ref1
Halsewell, East Indiaman:
caught in gale, ref1
wrecked near St Aldhelm’s Head, ref1
rescue, ref1
media sensation, ref1
items recovered, ref1
Hamilton, Sir Archibald Abdullah:
Selsey fascist and Moslem, ref1
succeeded by Sir Patrick Moore as local eccentric, ref1
Hammond, Reverend Joseph, historian of St Austell, ref1
Harlequin, sloop wrecked in Seaford Bay, ref1
Hardy, Thomas, novelist and poet:
friend of Sir Frederick Treves, ref1
White Nose or White Nothe, ref1
Harper, Charles G., travel writer:
St Margaret’s Bay, ref1
George Burt, ref1
Vale of Encombe, ref1
recipe for swan, ref1
Exmouth, ref1
bald pates in Torquay, ref1
Hallsands, ref1
Hope Cove, ref1
crossing the mouth of the Erme, ref1
damns Membland Hall, ref1
disparages Whitsand Bay, ref1
abuses Charles I and ridicules Cornish language, ref1
scornful of The Lizard, ref1
denounces golf, ref1
whitewashes smugglers, ref1
speculates about Phoenicians, ref1
Porthcurno, ref1
Hastings, Sussex:
as Cinque Port, ref1
pleasant surprise, ref1
fishing fleet, ref1
Pier, ref1, ref2
Sidney Little, ref1
White Rock swimming baths, ref1
Bottle Alley, ref1, ref2
seafront strategy, ref1
Souvenir Normand, ref1
Abbey, ref1
trouble, ref1
Hastings and St Leonards Observer, newspaper, ref1
Hastings Weekly Mail and Times, newspaper, ref1
Hawkins, Sir Christopher, Cornish landowner and developer of Pentewan, ref1
Hayling Island, Hampshire:
riddles, ref1
suburbanised, ref1
attractions praised by Betjeman, ref1
Holy Grail possibly buried there, ref1
Nevil Shute, ref1
Jesus Christ possibly visited, ref1
Helford River, Cornwall, ref1
Hengistbury Head, Dorset:
ferry, ref1
beach huts, ref1
flora and fauna, ref1
bought by Gordon Selfridge, ref1
Castle, ref1
sold to Bournemouth Borough Council, ref1
Henry, Prince, son of George V, opens Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone, ref1
Hepburn, Katherine, actor, swims at St Margaret’s Bay, ref1
Hera, German cargo ship wrecked off Nare Head, ref1
Herzogin Cecilie:
one of last grain ships, ref1
runs aground on Ham Stone, ref1
beauty, ref1
Hesketh Crescent, Torquay, ref1
Highways and Byways in Dorset, by Sir Frederick Treves, ref1
Highways and Byways in Sussex, by E. V. Lucas:
traduces the Rev. Jonathan Darby, ref1
wheatears, ref1
anecdote of Coleridge, ref1
History and Antiquities of Dorset, by the Reverend John Hutchins, ref1
History of the Fishes of the British Islands, by Jonathan Couch, ref1
History of Sidmouth, by Peter Orlando Hutchinson, ref1
Hitchcock, Robyn, singer, on Seaford’s non-existent Museum of Sex, ref1
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese revolutionary leader:
possible connection with Newhaven, ref1
statue, ref1
Hope Cove, Devon:
wreck of St Peter the Great, ref1
Cottage Hotel, ref1
fishing and tourism, ref1
smell, ref1
Hope of Amsterdam, wrecked on
Chesil Beach, ref1
Hordle, Hampshire, ref1
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, Transport Minister, in praise of Hastings, ref1
Houghton, Harry, Portland spy, ref1
Hove, Sussex:
King Alfred Leisure Centre, ref1, ref2
vision of Frank Gehry, ref1
Howard of Effingham, Lord, commander of English fleet fighting the Spanish Armada, ref1
Howgego, Ray, authority on the life of F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, ref1
Hudson, W. H., nature writer:
wheatears, ref1
buried in Worthing, ref1
on Richard Jefferies, ref1
Cornish character, ref1
Penzance, ref1
landscape of Penwith, ref1
Land’s End, ref1
Hutchins, Reverend John, historian of Dorset, ref1
Hutchinson, Peter Orlando:
Sidmouth antiquarian, ref1
character and manners, ref1
Hythe, Kent:
as respectable as Sandgate, ref1
as Cinque Port, ref1
Firing Range, ref1
beach, ref1
Ilbert, Reverend Peregrine, Rector of Thurlestone, ref1
IMAX cinema, Bournemouth:
voted most hated building in Britain, ref1
expensive farce, ref1
Imperial Hotel, Torquay, ref1
Importance of Being Earnest, The, play by Oscar Wilde, written in Worthing, ref1
International Hydrographic Organisation, decrees boundaries of seas, ref1
Isle of Wight:
preferred to Brighton by Queen Victoria, ref1
apology, ref1
detached from mainland, ref1
protects Swanage, ref1
Izzard, Eddie, comedian, brought up in Bexhill, ref1
James II:
deposed, ref1
lands England in a mess, ref1
James, Henry, novelist:
visited by H. G. Wells, ref1
on Edmund Gosse, ref1
Jarman, Derek, artist, garden at Dungeness, ref1
Jenkins, Mark, Torquay hotelier, ref1, ref2
John, barque wrecked on The Manacles, ref1
Jones, R.W. H., architect of Ocean Hotel and Lido at Saltdean, ref1
Joseph of Arimathea, speculation about visit to Hayling Island, ref1
Joyce, James, novelist:
enjoys lying on Bognor beach, ref1
inspiration for Finnegan’s Wake, ref1
Joynson-Hicks, William, Home Secretary, on perils of mixed bathing, ref1
Jury’s Gap, Sussex, ref1
Keats, John, poet:
wet spring in Teignmouth, ref1
complains about Devon weather, ref1
Kennack Sands, Cornwall, ref1
Killigrew, Sir John, builder of first Lizard lighthouse, ref1
Kilvert, Reverend Francis, diarist:
celebrates joys of nude bathing, ref1
admires girl’s dimpled bottom, ref1
pays tribute to Mullion pub landlady, ref1
Kimmeridge, Dorset:
Bay, ref1, ref2
Sir William Clavell, ref1
oil well, ref1
village life, ref1
Project, ref1
Kingdom by the Sea, book by Paul Theroux, ref1
Kipling, Rudyard, storyteller and poet:
writes inscription at Rame, ref1
goes mackerel fishing, ref1
Kipps, novel by H. G. Wells, ref1
Kirby, Neil, Eastbourne hotelier, ref1
Knight, Laura, painter:
Newlyn School, ref1
at Lamorna, ref1
Knight, Harold, painter and husband of Laura, ref1, ref2
Kroger, Helen and Peter (alias Lona and Morris Cohen), spies for Soviet Union, ref1
Kynance Cove, Cornwall, ref1
Ladram Bay, Devon, caravan park and rock stacks, ref1
Lamorna, Cornwall:
valley, ref1
loved by painters, ref1
cove, ref1
quarries ref1
Landewednack Church, Cornwall, ref1
Land’s End, Cornwall:
owned by Charles Neave-Hill, ref1
sold to David Goldstone, then Peter de Savary, ref1
and W. H. Hudson, ref1
pilgrims, ref1
visual impact, ref1
trashy dump, ref1
Land’s End, The, book by W. H. Hudson, ref1
Langham Hotel, Eastbourne, ref1
Langton Herring, Dorset:
pub where spies met, ref1
lane to Chesil Beach, ref1
Lannacombe Bay, Devon:
campsite, ref1
glorious days at, ref1
Lawrence, D. H., novelist, in Bournemouth, ref1
Lawrence, Sergeant William, soldier:
memorial at Studland, ref1
fighting life, ref1
Leathercote Point, Kent, and boundary of Channel, ref1
Lennon, John, Beatle:
Hotel of Peace and Love, Bournemouth, ref1
keen on peace and love, ref1
Lewis, Norman, Bognor councillor, warning about Butlin’s, ref1
Listening Ears:
at Greatstone, Kent, ref1
invented by William Tucker, ref1
problems, ref1
scrapped, ref1
Little, Sidney, Hastings Borough Engineer:
declares the town shabby and decayed, ref1
Britain’s first underground car park, ref1
other projects, ref1
known as Concrete King, ref1
Littlehampton, Sussex, and East Beach Café, ref1
Lizard, The, Cornwall:
drawn to resemble Italy, ref1
shaped like reptile head, ref1
Point, ref1
Village, ref1
lifeboat, ref1
lighthouse, ref1
end, ref1
Loe Bar, Cornwall:
lovely place, ref1
wreck of Anson, ref1
Loe Pool:
largest freshwater lake in Cornwall, ref1
delicious fat trout, ref1
Loftus, Marie, music hall star, builds bungalow at Shoreham Beach, ref1
Logan Rock, Cornwall, ref1
Longhurst, Henry, golf writer:
stands up for St Cyprian’s, ref1
fondness for Eastbourne, ref1
Looe, Cornwall:
saturation point, ref1
East and West, ref1
seagull menace, ref1
fishing fleet, ref1
shark-fishing, ref1
Island, ref1
Looney, Naiomh, artist, work at Brighton, ref1
Lords and Landlords, book by David Cannadine, ref1
Louis Philippe, King of France, flees to Newhaven, ref1
Lovell, John, Brixham fisherman, organiser of Festival of the Sea, ref1
Lucan, Lord, vanished aristocrat and murder suspect, leaves car at Newhaven, ref1
Lucas, E. V., author of Highways and Byways in Sussex, ref1, ref2, ref3
Lugger, Captain:
digs grotto at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, ref1
verse, ref1
scurvy treatment by National Trust, ref1
Lulworth, Dorset:
Ranges, ref1
Camp, ref1
Cove, ref1
Lydd, Kent:
desolate corner of Romney Marsh, ref1
Ranges, ref1
Lydiard, Captain Charles, naval officer drowned off Loe Bar, ref1
Lyme Regis, Dorset:
Jane Austen tour, ref1
attractions, ref1
little to say about, ref1
Jane Austen, ref1, ref2
dark cliffs, ref1
1824 storm, ref1
Lyte, Reverend Henry, Minister of All Saints, Brixham:
high-minded minister, ref1
deserted by congregation, ref1
dea
th, ref1
writing of ‘Abide With Me’, ref1
Macauley, Lord, historian, mocked by Sydney Smith, ref1
McEwan, Ian, novelist, author of On Chesil Beach, ref1
Mahomet, Sake Deen (various spellings), shampooist and masseur:
early life, ref1
moves to Brighton, ref1
technique, ref1
and Prince Regent, ref1
tributes after death, ref1
Mais, Stuart Petrie Brodie, writer, broadcaster, cricket-lover:
lives in Southwick, ref1
roused to defend cricket, ref1
evicted, ref1
blue plaque, ref1
Malkovich, John, American actor, rumour of move to Eastbourne, ref1
Manacles, The, reef off Cornish coast:
ship-swallower, ref1
the John, ref1
Barbary pirates, ref1
Manning-Sanders, Ruth, author of The West of England, on Land’s End, ref1
Marana SS, wrecked off Start Point, ref1, ref2
Marazion, Cornwall:
stepping off point for St Michael’s Mount, ref1
eclipse, ref1
Marconi, Count Guglielmo, radio pioneer and fascist, first transmission from Poldhu, ref1
Margate, Kent:
naked men, ref1
outraged decorum, ref1
Marnham, Patrick, writer, biographer of Mary Wesley, ref1
Martello Towers:
commissioned, ref1
built, ref1
surviving, ref1
Martin, Reverend George:
Rector of St Michael’s Caerhays, ref1
erects cross on Dodman Point, ref1
Mary, Queen, accompanies George V to Bognor, ref1
Mawnan Owlman, ref1
Mawnan Smith, Cornwall, ref1
Maxwell, Gavin, writer, unhappy at St Cyprian’s, Eastbourne, ref1
Membland, Devon, home of Lord Revelstoke, ref1
Menabilly, Cornwall, house near Fowey, ref1
Mermaids:
one found on Cogden beach, ref1
other sightings, ref1
physical characteristics of, ref1
Methodism, spread of in Cornwall, ref1
Mevagissey, Cornwall:
resolutely fishy, ref1
Ocean Harvest, ref1
a great place, ref1
Michelet, Jules, 19th century French historian, ref1
Middleton-on-Sea, Sussex:
childhood holidays at, ref1
beach, ref1
unappreciated proximity to Bognor, ref1
Mildmay, Henry, banker, owner of Mothecombe, Devon, ref1
Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire:
situation, ref1
attempt to turn into smart resort, ref1
battered by 2014 storms, ref1
Mitchell, Percy, Cornish boat-builder, ref1
Mitchell-Hedges, F. A. ‘Mitch’, fisherman and explorer:
fishing methods, ref1
marries, ref1
acquires Skull of Doom, ref1
adopted daughter, ref1
oblique relationship with factual reality, ref1
in Polperro, ref1
Molodiy, Konstantin, KGB spy:
better known as Gordon Lonsdale, ref1