Eastbourne

Eastbourne Seafront is 14 Miles South of Valley View Barn. An award winning shingle beach that stretches 5 miles from the Harbour in the East to Beachy Head in the West. Half way along the beach lies Eastbourne Pier which was orginally opened in 1870. The beautiful displays of flowers lay to the front of the pier and stretch along the seafront to the west to Holly Well Gardens. In the last few years Eastbourne has seen the whole of the seafront made disabled / mobility friendly with smooth paths running the full length. A dotto train also runs the length of the seafront at regular intervals throughout the year.

Eastbourne's Devonshire Park is the venue for the International Women's Open, a Women's tennis tournament traditionally seen as the warm-up to Wimbledon. The tournament has been held in the town since 1975, and although in 2007 the Lawn Tennis Association was considering relocating it to London, they instead opted to merge it with the Nottingham Open, a men's event normally held at the same time, starting with the 2009 tournament.