East Sussex, England is an immensely popular place to take a vacation or short break. A wide variety of vacations can be taken ranging from South Downs walking vacations to vacations by the seaside. East Sussex really does offer an amazing range of vacation opportunities.
A great many folk enjoy a trip to the seaside and southern East Sussex has an extensive stretch of coastline, along which there are towns such as Hastings, Bexhill-on-Sea, Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove.
The most popular seaside resort in East Sussex is Brighton & Hove, the largest settlement by the seaside in Great Britain. In the sixteenth and seventeen century Brighton was just an insignificant fishing village but around 1750 a local doctor began to advise that his patients should bathe in, and even drink seawater for their health, declaring that the water at Brighton was the best. After on a few decades, in 1780, Georgian terraces began to appear and the tourism industry in Brighton had begun.
Tourism was further boosted by a visit by the future King George IV in in the year seventeen eighty three and again, in 1841, when the railway arrived (delivering numerous day-trippers from near and far). Today the city sees about 8 million visitors a year and at times it seems that you can hardly move for Brighton bed and breakfasts and tourists.
Eastbourne is another popular East Sussex seaside town. Located at the east end of the South Downs, it is one of Great Britain’s most sunny towns. Eastbourne’s main industry is tourism and it has the expected pier as well as various other visitor attractions including numerous parks & gardens, museums, a beach (shingle) and four theatres, as well as a bandstand. Thankfully it is easy to find cheap bed & breakfast, at least a little more affordable than many bed & breakfasts in Brighton.
As well as the 2 popular seaside resorts introduced above, East Sussex also has the less well known, but extremely beautiful, seaside towns of Bexhill-on-Sea, Rye and Hastings, and countless towns of interest inland such as the former market towns of Heathfield, Uckfield and Hailsham. Another town of interest in the county of East Sussex well worth visiting is Crowborough (located in the centre of the Ashdown Forest), plus the county town of Lewes and Battle as well as many more.
