River Tillingham

Tillingham
The river at Beckley
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	East Sussex
Mouth	River Brede
• location	Rye, East Sussex
• coordinates	50°56′49″N 0°43′54″E / 50.946958°N 0.731703°E / 50.946958; 0.731703
• elevation	0 m (0 ft)

v t e River Tillingham
Legend
Springs near Staplecross Sewage Treatment Works Ellenwhorne Lane bridge Watts Palace Lane bridge A28 Arnold Bridge tributary Site of Beckley Furnace ironworks Hundredhouse Bridge B2089 Ferry Bridge, Rye Marshlink line bridge Tillingham Sluice A259 Winchelsea Road bridge Strand Wharf River Rother Rock Channel Brede Sluice Rye Harbour River Brede to Winchelsea Rye Bay, English Channel

The River Tillingham flows through the English county of East Sussex. It meets the River Brede and the eastern River Rother near the town of Rye. A navigable sluice controlled the entrance to the river between 1786 and 1928, when it was replaced by a vertical lifting gate which was not navigable. The river provided water power to operate the bellows of an iron works at Beckley Furnace, used to make cannons for the Royal Navy between 1578 and 1770, when it became uneconomic, and a water mill which replaced it, until that burnt down in 1909. The lower reaches supported a thriving shipbuilding industry from the early nineteenth century onwards, and although on a smaller scale, was still doing so in 2000.