Pevensey, a village of Sussex, stands on the English Channel, 12 miles by rail W. by S. of Hastings. The Romans built here a castle, whose walls enclose a Norman keep. The church is Early English. William the Conqueror landed on the shore of Pevensey Bay. Pop. of parish, 365. See Lower's Chronicles of Pevensey (3d ed. 1880).
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