The village is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north-east of Hastings on the edge of Pett Level, the one-time marshes stretching along the coast of Rye Bay.

[8] These include a sunken forest, a warship which is thought to have sunk in 1690, a lost series of Martello towers.

At Cliff End the beach has some fossils and some dinosaur footprints made by iguanodons and ankylosaurus up to 100m years ago in the Lower Cretaceous.

It is a relic of a past  8000 years ago when sea levels were about 100 ft (30m) lower than today.

The forest can be seen as spongy wooden roots , fallen trunks and tree stumps across large areas in the sand.

[11] HMS Anne was a 70-gun third rate ship of the line of the English Royal Navy, launched in 1678.