Saving Shoreham’s History
The role of your local history website and the challenges for the future Our guest speaker for the January 2026 Shoreham Society talk is Paul Osborne, co-founder of www.Shorehambysea.com. He will present a richly illustrated guide to recent discoveries of local interest and discuss the future challenges of preserving Shoreham’s past....
Creating a Community Banner
A Local Textile Art Project Celebrating Heritage and Community Would you like to be part of a local community project creating a new piece of textile art that represents the heritage, landscape and community within Old Shoreham and the surrounding area? The Community Banner is currently being created with people from across the...
Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve
Local volunteers are leading a restoration project above Shoreham to reverse decades of ecological decline and revive butterfly and wildflower populations. Mill Hill: restoring a precious chalk grassland A community-led effort is underway to bring Mill Hill Local Nature Reserve back to life. Once world-famous for its butterflies and...
Powering our Local Community
A guest article by Chris Hannon, Transition Town Shoreham We’re using more energy than ever, and we will need more. The National Grid is anticipating an increase in electricity demand of 50% by 2035. There’s a mix of factors driving this, such as energy-hungry new tech like AI, the transition to a low-carbon economy (EV …...
The Village Map Project
Do you live in Shoreham (Old or New)? Would you like to be involved in a community project that is about to start? The Village Map Project is a development from maps created for the Old Shoreham Heritage Trail in 2024 and inspired by the West Sussex Millennium Maps project, which did not include Shoreham. …...
Nature Map project
‘Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?’* Julia Widdows describes a new initiative to capture an up-to-date picture of the natural environment of Shoreham’s ‘Great Big Back Garden’, helping to identify priorities and opportunities for nature support and recovery. When Friends of...
Greening Old Shoreham Garden Survey
Domestic gardens are vital for biodiversity. Julia Widdows describes a new local project to encourage wildlife at our doorsteps. Our countryside is under constant pressure from development, traffic, pollution, and intensive agriculture, and is no longer the haven for a rich variety of wildlife that it has been in the past. UK gardens...
Celebrating International Dawn Chorus Day on Mill Hill
Dave Fawcett describes a walk to record the birdsong at first light by members of the Echoes Of Old Shoreham soundscape project. It’s about 5 a.m. on the first Sunday in May. A little group of us are dotted around Mill Hill, tuning into the soundscapes created by the bird song around us. We met …...
Thundersbarrow Hill
Thoughts from a walk to Thundersbarrow A three mile walk from Shoreham town centre will take you one of the best views on the South Downs. Thundersbarrow, high above the town, is an archaeological site rich in history. The hill features an Iron Age fort, a Bronze Age bowl barrow, and traces of a Romano-British …...
Planning ahead
Old Shoreham is vulnerable to pressure for development and growth. The Friends of Old Shoreham are starting to explore how the community can be involved in creating positive solutions from the earliest opportunity and not be taken by surprise with other people’s plans for the area. Old Shoreham faces new development pressures:...
