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anyone got the village? know its in sussex.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It does seem that Cymenesora near Sidlesham has the greatest claim to the landing location of Aella and his crew.
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/AVB57.html
http://www.glaucus.org.uk/AVB57.html
Selsey I think is both too large to count as a village and too far (remember it's supposed to have been a 5 mile diversion - not 7.5 miles - although if you consider distance as the crow flies from Chichester Marina it would be about 5 miles...). Also, Selsey's most notable resident by far is clearly Sir Patrick Moore the astronomer. Sidlesham is only 4.5 miles from the A286/B2201 road diversion at Kingsham, and approx. 3 miles by air from the Marina. The text is obviously a bit ambiguous about this. However there is a charming country inn (The Crab & Lobster) at Sidlesham, which would fit in well with a lunch stop. The historical info about King Ella is, truth be told, not helpful in deciding the location, and we are agreed that the net doesn't offer useful info linking John Baxter with either Selsey or Sidlesham. For me it must be the latter.
Just back from a visit to Leeds Central Library.
The National Dictionary of Biography contains an entry for John Philip Baxter that mentions 'his home in Selsey'.
However, it also mentions that following his death his friends and colleagues had to correct numerous inaccuracies in his obituaries!
I thought I'd post this before the closing date in fairness.
The National Dictionary of Biography contains an entry for John Philip Baxter that mentions 'his home in Selsey'.
However, it also mentions that following his death his friends and colleagues had to correct numerous inaccuracies in his obituaries!
I thought I'd post this before the closing date in fairness.