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Please note that the site is run on entirely voluntary funding ([https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=GG79S45R4H256 Paypal] or [https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/historymapinfo Crowdfunder]), and any proceeds from donations or advertisements are solely used for hosting costs.\n\nContributions from site-visitors are welcome - whether it be as small as a personal recollection about a place/event in the town, or a detailed history of a building or road in the town. If you are uncertain as to how to make edits or additions to the site, please contact the administrator using the email address contained in the [https://historymap.info/Historical_Hastings:About About] page linked at the bottom of each page.\n\nWhilst based upon a wiki back-end, the site leverages this to provide traceability for any changes and assertions made, in addition to giving fully searchable texts of reference works where permissible by copyrights. 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