Hastings

This is about Hastings in England. There are other uses of the name Hastings

Borough of Hastings
Shown within East Sussex
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	East Sussex
Area: - Total	Ranked 338th 29.72 km²
Admin. HQ:	Hastings
ONS code:	21UD
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 266th 85,786 2,886 / km²
Ethnicity:	97.0% White
Politics
Hastings Borough Council http://www.hastings.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	All party
MP:	Michael Foster

Hastings is a town in southeastern England, in the county of East Sussex. Population (2000) about 84,000. Now known as a seaside resort and education centre (Hastings College and University College Hastings), it is near the site of the Battle of Hastings, fought in 1066. In this battle, William the Conqueror defeated and killed Harold Godwinson, the last Saxon King of England, and destroyed his army, opening England to the Norman conquest. Hastings was one of the Cinque Ports, but its significance as a port declined after the Middle Ages and its main industry became fishing It still has the largest beach-based fishing fleet in England

Hastings forms a single urban centre with the more suburban area of St Leonards-on-Sea to the west; the eastern part of the town is the former village of Ore. In the 19th century the towns became prosperous on the basis of the tourist trade from London and the Midlands, with the rise of international tourism from England it has declined substantially. It is now one of the most economically disadvantaged districts in south-east England.

Hastings is linked to London by two railway lines, to Victoria via Lewes and to Charing Cross via Tunbridge Wells, Kent.The former journey is via Eastbourne along the coast. There is also a further line via Rye, East Sussex to Ashford, Kent.

See: Hastings embroidery

Districts of England - South East England
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Administrative counties with multiple districts: Berkshire - Buckinghamshire - East Sussex - Hampshire - Kent - Oxfordshire - Surrey - West Sussex

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Categories: Towns in East Sussex | English seaside resorts

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