Eastbourne Pier
A Grade II* Victorian pleasure pier of 1870 that has survived fire, storm and a Second World War mine — and is still the centre of the seafront.
Every major sight in and around Eastbourne, from the landmark names to the quieter corners.
Seven Sisters Country Park
280 hectares of chalk grassland, meandering river and shingle at Cuckmere Haven — the flat, easy walk to one of the best-known views in England.
Drusillas Park
A ten-acre zoo near Alfriston built entirely around small children — the best family day out within half an hour of Eastbourne, and priced…
Battle Abbey
The site of the Battle of Hastings, twenty-two kilometres from Eastbourne — a battlefield you can walk, with an audio guide that is genuinely…
Pevensey Castle
A Norman castle inside a Roman fort, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066 — and which was still garrisoned in 1940.
Herstmonceux Castle
One of the oldest significant brick buildings in England, built in 1441 by Flemish bricklayers — with gardens, a maze and a tour that is the real…
Princes Park
Thirty-three acres of boating lake, putting green and play areas a mile east of the town centre — Eastbourne's local park rather than its tourist one.
Towner Eastbourne
The largest art gallery in the south-east outside Brighton, free to enter, wrapped in a Lothar Götz colour scheme that you can see from the seafront.