English: Combe Haven A former tidal inlet that was used as a port by the Romans to serve their iron bloomeries in Beauport and Crowhurst Park. There is also increasing evidence that this inlet was the one that William of Conqueror landed in prior to the Battle of Hastings as opposed to Pevensey which is five miles further to the west. Like many inlets along the Sussex coast a mixture of gradual decline of sea level, longshore drift and inning of the land reduced ebb and flow tide with the consequence that the inlet silted up became marsh until drained and turned over to grazing. The area is currently an SSSI and provides a barrier between Bexhill and Hastings, the latter's western edge can be seen at the end of the valley.