Pevensey

This fortress of Anderida, which had been a Roman _castrum_, occupied the spot now called Pevensey, the landing-place of a later conqueror, the Norman William, in 1066.

Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See Hubert C. Corlette

Pevensey, which is now divided from the channel by marshy fields with nothing to break the flatness but Martello towers (thirteen may be counted from the walls), was, like Bramber Castle in the west, now also an inland stronghold, once washed and surrounded by the sea.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

If Fulke is given my Pevensey, which is England's gate, what will he do with it?

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

Anderida, now called Pevensey, was taken by the Saxons, and all its inhabitants, man, woman and child, were slaughtered, so that it became a waste until the Normans built a castle within the old walls.

The History of London Walter Besant 1868

Mine ancestors too, ye olde countrylad was offered a package holiday to some exotic place called Pevensey by some bloke called william, something about a beach holiday with loads of free booze.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Mine ancestors too, ye olde countrylad was offered a package holiday to some exotic place called Pevensey by some bloke called william, something about a beach holiday with loads of free booze.

Army Rumour Service 2010

If Fulke is given my Pevensey which is England’s gate, what will he do with it?

Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

In Melody Howse's exceedingly British film, we meet Planning Outlaws who say no to all that palaver, and people such Mr Gulzar, whose 6ft stone lions are causing no end of bother on Pevensey marshes.

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And now, encamped near Hastings, with their leader lying in the old Roman castle of Pevensey, the English retiring in all directions, the land for miles around scorched and smoking, fired and pillaged, was the whole

A Child's History of England 2007

Dover, Pevensey, and Hastings, and made with hot speed for Winchester, where the Royal treasure was kept.

A Child's History of England 2007