East Sussex, and English county in the South East of the country is a popular destination for vacations. Diverse vacations can be taken ranging from South Downs walking vacations to seaside vacations. East Sussex really does offer a fantastic range of vacation opportunities.
A great many visitors to the United Kingdom enjoy a trip to the seaside and the southern part of the county of East Sussex has an extensive stretch of coast, along which you will find towns such as Bexhill-on-Sea, Brighton & Hove, Hastings and Eastbourne.
The most well known seaside resort in East Sussex is Brighton & Hove, the largest seaside settlement in Britain. Before the eighteenth century Brighton was no more than a small fishing village but around 1750 a local doctor started to advise that his patients should bathe in, and even drink seawater for their health, saying that the water at Brighton was the finest. A few decades later, in 1780, Georgian terraces where being built and the Brighton tourism industry was established.
Tourism received a boost following a visit by the future King George IV in 1783 and again, in 1841, with the arrival of the railway (delivering swathes of day-trippers from the surrounding area and as far away as London). Today the city gets around eight million tourists annually and sometimes it appears that you can hardly move for Brighton hotels and tourists.
Eastbourne is another popular seaside town in East Sussex. Located at the eastern end of the South Downs, it is one of the most sunny towns in Britain. The town’s main industry is tourism and it has the expected pier as well as various other visitor attractions including numerous parks & gardens, a shingle beach, museums and four theatres, as well as interesting features such as the bandstand. Luckily it is pretty easy to find cheap bed & breakfast, at the least somewhat cheaper than many Brighton bed and breakfasts.
Besides the two popular seaside resorts discussed above, East Sussex also has the slightly less popular, but extremely beautiful, seaside towns of Rye, Hastings and Bexhill-on-Sea, and also a great many inland towns of interest such as the former market towns of Hailsham, Heathfield and Uckfield. Another town of interest in the county of East Sussex definitely worth a visit is Crowborough (situated in the middle of the Ashdown Forest), also the county town of Lewes and Battle as well as many more.
