434 REPORT—1885. 
2. From the place described above to Lancing, as well as some distance westwards — 
(for about 33 miles in all), the coast is formed of a shingle-beach of great 
width, but there are no cliffs. 
3. It is north of east, curving towards the north as it approaches Brighton. 
4. South-west. = 
5. From the west. It moves the beach eastwards, and has piled it up about 4 to_ 
5 feet, and made it broader by accumulating it on thesea side. This refers to 
two-thirds of its length between the points stated above from the coastguard — 
station to Shops Dam; and at the back of this length, an excavation was 
made by the proprietor of the adjoining land, from which a high bank was 
raised some years ago, adjoining the high road, to prevent the sea from over-_ 
flowing ; and a few years since he had these groynes erected, and I was 
appointed to inspect their construction. The front of Worthing has been — 
thickly groyned. 4 
7. (1) a. 14 feet 2inches. b. 10 feet 1inch. (2) About 90 yards. : 
8. Of shingle. “4 
9. c. From west to east. d. Six inches diameter. e. The shingle forms a con-— 
tinuous slope from the low-water line to the top of the bank, but it is irregular, 
owing to the tide raising a bank along the face of the slopes, and washing out 
the shingle, causing flat places. 
10. Since the groynes were constructed the shingle has accumulated. The sea has 
not flowed over the bank of shingle since the groynes were erected. The 
sixteen piles of groynes have cost nothing since they were erected in 1877-78. 
11. The top of the bank has risen, and the shingle has increased in thickness on the’ 
sea-front. 
12. b. About 275 feet, extending from low to high water. ec. d. At their uppel 
ends they are 500 feet apart, and are parallel to each other. At A on plan, 
three intermediate groynes were put in between groynes 8, 9, and 10, each 
160 feet in length, and the shingle has completely covered them where the 
beach before was laid bare at that particular part. The groynes were built 
in 1877-78. They are built generally at an angle of 70° to 75° to the shore, 
or high-water line pointing south-east. e. Memel timber square piles driven 
into the beach, planked on the weather or west side, and stayed into the beach 
by land ties, fastened by piles atthe ends. f. They are the means of stopping 
the beach and causing it to accumulate on the west side, raising it from 4 feet 
to 7 feet on the east side of the groynes, and thereby preventing the sea from 
eroding the coast. 
13. No. 
14. b. There are no cliffs except between Worthing and Lancing, where the land is 
higher than the public road. At one point near Worthing the road was washed 
away and some of the land at the back of it some years since. At the town 
of Worthing, the sea-front is protected by groynes which are very numerous, 
and sufficiently support the road ; but this is beyond the district I personally 
know. 
16. No; there is not any. 
17. No; there are no ‘dunes.’ 
18. I have inquired for such papers, but there are none. The only paper that has 
any account of these groynes and sea-shore is the ‘Brighton Gazette’ of 
February 26, 1885. 
13. Littlehampton to Brighton. 
By W. E. C. Noursz, F.R.C.8., Bouverie House, Mount Radford, Exeter. 
1. The coast of Sussex from Littlehampton to Brighton, since 1832. 
2. The land is bounded by a shingle-beach the whole distance. 
5. Winds from the south-west, or thereabouts, have constantly made the waves pile 
up or remove shingle. Piling wp has mostly been caused by moderate gales. 
Removal or erosion by storms. Besides which, the constant action of these 
winds on the waves has occasioned a constant travelling of shingle from west 
to east. 
6. The sum of the ebb and flow is a set to the eastward, in which direction i 
always drift. 
