Fishermen's Museum, Rock-A-Nore - geograph

Rock-a-Nore is an urban area of

Hastings Hastings () is a large seaside town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east to the county town of Lewes and south east of London. The town gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took place to the north-west ...

, East Sussex, England, stretching from the

Old Town In a city or town, the old town is its historic or original core. Although the city is usually larger in its present form, many cities have redesignated this part of the city to commemorate its origins after thorough renovations. There are ma ...

area along Rock-a-Nore Road between the cliffs and the beach called

The Stade The Stade is a shingle beach in Hastings Old Town, Hastings, East Sussex, England. It has been used for beaching boats for more than a thousand years. It is now home to Europe's largest fleet of beach-launched fishing boats. The word '' stad ...

. Its name was officially adopted in 1859 and derives from a former building "lyinge to the Mayne Rock against the north".J Manwaring Baines, ''Historic Hastings'', F J Parsons Ltd, Hastings, 1955–1963, page 160 Rock-a-Nore contains the Blue Reef Aquarium, the Fishermen's Museum, and the

East Hill Cliff Railway East Hill Cliff Railway, or East Hill Lift, is a funicular railway located in the English seaside town of Hastings. It provides access to Hastings Country Park via the East Hill, which overlooks the Old Town and Rock-a-Nore, an area to the e ...

, and borders The Stade, with its tall black wooden "net shop" sheds, which were built to provide a weather proof store for the fishing gear. The sheds are tarred black and weatherboarded.

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