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East Sussex, England is an immensely popular place to take a vacation or short break. Various kinds of vacations can be taken ranging from South Downs walking vacations to typical seaside vacations. East Sussex really does offer a fantastic range of vacation opportunities.
A great many folk enjoy visiting the seaside and southern East Sussex has an extensive stretch of coast, where there are towns such as Bexhill-on-Sea, Hastings, Brighton & Hove and Eastbourne.
The most well known seaside resort is Brighton & Hove, the largest settlement by the seaside in Great Britain. Before the eighteenth century Brighton was no more than an unimportant fishing village but in about 1750 a local physician began to suggest that his patients should bathe in, and even drink seawater for their health, saying that the seawater around Brighton was the finest. A few decades later, in 1780, Georgian terraces where being built and the tourism industry in Brighton was established.
Tourism received a boost by a visit by the Prince Regent (later King George IV of England) in in the year seventeen eighty three and again with the arrival of the railway in 1841 (bringing with it swathes of day-trippers from the surrounding area and as far away as London). Nowadays the city gets roughly 8 million tourists a year and sometimes it appears that you can hardly move for Brighton hotels and tourists.
Another popular seaside town in East Sussex is Eastbourne. Located towards the east end of the South Downs, it is one of the sunniest towns in Britain. The main industry in the town is tourism and it has the usual pier alongside many other visitor attractions such as numerous parks & gardens, a beach (shingle), museums and four theatres, as well as a bandstand. Happily it is relatively easy to find cheap B & B accommodation, at the least somewhat cheaper than many Brighton bed & breakfasts.
As well as the two seaside resorts discussed above, East Sussex also has the lesser, but very pretty, seaside towns of Rye, Bexhill-on-Sea and Hastings, and also countless towns of interest further inland such as the former market towns of Heathfield, Hailsham and Uckfield. Another East Sussex town of interest definitely worth visiting is Crowborough (situated in the middle of the Ashdown Forest), also the county town of Lewes and Battle as well as many more.
