Vacation Destinations In England: Introducing East Sussex
The South East English county of East Sussex is an awesomely popular destination for vacations and extended breaks. Diverse types of vacations can be enjoyed ranging from rambling in the South Downs to seaside vacations. East Sussex really does offer a fantastic range of vacation opportunities.
A great many visitors to England enjoy a trip to the seaside and southern East Sussex has an extensive stretch of coastline, along which there are towns such as Hastings, Eastbourne, Brighton & Hove and Bexhill-on-Sea.
The most well known seaside resort in East Sussex is Brighton & Hove, the largest settlement by the seaside in the United Kingdom. Before the 18 th Century Brighton was little more than an unimportant fishing village but in about 1750 a nearby physician began to recommend that people should bathe in, and drink, seawater for their health, stating that Brighton’s seawater was the most suitable. After on a few decades, in seventeen eighty, Georgian terraces started to appear and the tourism industry in Brighton had started.
Tourism was increased further by a visit by the Prince Regent (later King George IV) in 1783 and again with the arrival of the railway in 1841 (bringing forth swathes of day-trippers from as far away as London). Nowadays the city sees around eight million visitors per annum and at times it seems as though you can hardly move for Brighton guest houses and tourists.
Another popular East Sussex seaside town is Eastbourne. Located towards the east end of the South Downs, it is one of the most sunny towns in Britain. The main industry in the town is tourism and it has the expected pier alongside many other visitor attractions including four theatres, numerous parks & gardens, a beach (shingle) and museums, as well as interesting features such as the bandstand. Luckily it is relatively easy to find cheap bed & breakfast, at the least a little more affordable than many bed & breakfasts in Brighton.
Besides the two seaside resorts introduced above, East Sussex also has the lesser, but very pretty, seaside towns of Bexhill-on-Sea, Rye and Hastings, and countless inland towns of interest such as the former market towns of Heathfield, Uckfield and Hailsham. A further interesting town in the county of East Sussex definitely worth visiting is Crowborough (located in the centre of the Ashdown Forest), also Lewes (the county town) and Battle as well as many more.