This view is reproduced from a coloured engraving, a copy of which appears in Stockdale's Guide, entitled "Sketches of Hastings, Winchelsea and Rye," published in 1817. It is interesting as shewing the inlet of water in the foreground, known as the "Condemned Hole," where smuggling craft was taken after capture and destroyed, and was near what is now Beach Terrace. A large part of the Stade with scattered buildings along the front as far westward as the Memorial Clock or Priory Bridge, prior to the development of modern Hastings, will be seen in the view.
In the foreground of this view, where the ship and boats are shewn, is now Carlisle Parade and Robertson Terrace then commonly known as the "America Ground," and the first Cliffs in the view were termed by the Surveyors to the Government when they reclaimed the Derelict Lands the " Western Cliffs," and formed the rising ground from Priory Street to Cornwallis Gardens and up Cambridge Road, where we now go down steps to Claremont, Trinity Street being on the level with the Ancient Haven. The Priory Valley is that between the West Hill and the Western Cliffs, and the Bourne Valley between the East and West Hills, where the Old Town is.
