East Dean

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East Dean is a flint village built around a sloping green, with the old Tiger Inn along one side. It’s a short walk from Birling Gap and the Seven Sisters cliffs, which makes it a handy base for that stretch of coast path. Eastbourne is the nearest station, about 5km to the east.

More places to visit near East Dean

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South Downs

You’re inside itNational Park near Fittleworth

A chalk ridge rolling from Winchester to the sea cliffs at Beachy Head.

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Birling Gap and Seven Sisters

Coastline near East Dean

The white chalk waves of the Seven Sisters, falling to the Channel.

1.6 km W

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Belle Tout Lighthouse

Lighthouse near East Dean

Once a granite clifftop light above Beachy Head, decommissioned when fog hid its lamp — later moved bodily inland in 1999 as the chalk eroded beneath it.

2.4 km S

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Beachy Head Lighthouse

Lighthouse near East Dean

A red-and-white tower stands in the surf below England's highest chalk sea cliff, built seaward after the old clifftop Belle Tout light kept vanishing in mist.

3.7 km SE