East Sussex, in the South East of England is an awesomely popular place to take a vacation. Diverse vacations can be enjoyed ranging from rambling in the South Downs to typical seaside vacations. East Sussex really does offer a fantastic range of vacation opportunities.
Many visitors to the United Kingdom enjoy relaxing at the seaside and southern East Sussex has a long stretch of coastline, along which you will find towns such as Bexhill-on-Sea, Hastings, Eastbourne and Brighton & Hove.
The most well known East Sussex seaside resort is Brighton, the largest British seaside settlement. In the sixteenth and seventeen century Brighton was just an insignificant fishing village but around 1750 a nearby physician started to suggest that his patients should bathe in, and drink, seawater for their health, stating that the seawater around Brighton was the finest. After on a few decades, in 1780, Georgian terraces began to appear and the Brighton tourism industry had begun.
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 (delivering huge numbers of day-trippers from as far away as London). Today the city gets approximately eight million visitors annually and sometimes it appears that you can hardly move for Brighton bed and breakfasts and tourists.
Eastbourne is another popular seaside town in East Sussex. Located towards the eastern end of the South Downs, it is one of the United Kingdom’s most sunny towns. The town’s main industry is tourism and it has the expected pier alongside many other tourist attractions including four theatres, museums, a beach (of shingle rather than sand) and numerous parks & gardens, and I mustn’t forget the bandstand. Luckily it is pretty easy to find cheap B & B accommodation, at least somewhat less expensive than many bed and breakfasts in Brighton.
As well as the two seaside resorts mentioned above, East Sussex also has the less well known, but very pretty, seaside towns of Hastings, Rye and Bexhill-on-Sea, and numerous towns of interest further inland such as the former market towns of Hailsham, Uckfield and Heathfield. A further fascinating East Sussex town definitely worth visiting is Crowborough (situated in the middle of the Ashdown Forest), plus Battle and Lewes (the county town) as well as many more.