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Today's featured coast is East Sussex

The East Sussex coast is reknowned for offering energetic towns such as Brighton and Hastings, but also the picturesque coastal scenery of locations such as Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters Country Park. Find out more, visit East Sussex

We have visitor information and photographs for the main coastal towns and resorts in East Sussex, including Bexhill, Rye, Seaford, and details of beaches, visitor attractions such as Eastbourne Pier, visitor accomodation, B&B's, hotels, guest houses and restaurants.

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Happisburgh pill box on beachTorquay harbourGorleston beach yacht pondPowered paraglider over Hunstanton beachWells-next-the-Sea harbourBeach hutHunstanton CliffsLog flume at Pleasure Beach
Brittania Pier EntranceJoss BayRemains of the 1910 Preussen shipwreck, DoverRobin Hood's BayDeal photographed from the PierSailing yachts leaving Rye HarbourBotany BayAnother Place

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History of the Goodwin Sands

Goodwin sands hovercraftThe Goodwin Sands are a notorious stretch of sands just off the coast of Kent. Submerged at high tides, with areas being exposed and drying sufficiently for a man to walk on at low tides, they present a particular challenge to shipping given their location at the narrowest part of the busiest shipping channel in the world [...] Read more.

Martello Towers of the East Coast

Hythe martello towerThe East Coast Martello towers were built in Essex and Suffolk around the same time as the South Coast towers starting in 1809. They were intended to prevent Napoleon's armies from reaching London via Essex/Suffolk [...] Read more.

Martello Towers of the Kent and Sussex Coast

Hythe martello towerMartello Towers were built along the coast of Kent and East Sussex, between 1805 and 1808 to protect against invasion by Napoleon. A good number of them survive today, some restored as museums and residences [...] Read more.