Seaford (East Sussex)

Seaford is a coastal town in the English county of East Sussex and is situated on the south coast east of Newhaven and west of Eastbourne. The population is about 22,000.

In Seaford is the Seaford Head Community College. East of the city are the Seven Sisters. In addition, it boasts the place with the westernmost Martello towers of the south coast of England. The standing in the small coastal town of towers house a museum nowadays.

History

The town was represented in Parliament by three MPs who later exercised the office of Prime Minister. Henry Pelham, she represented from 1717 to 1722, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham 1747-1754 and George Canning in 1827.

Seaford Reform Act was in force until 1832, when it was combined with the constituency of Lewes, as Rotten borough. Community ( civil parish ), it is only since 1999, after years without a church affiliation. From 1894 to 1974 Seaford was an Urban District.

The council has been praised as the only one in Lewes District by the government for its qualities. With this award, make partnerships and bonds for the city far less complicated than usual.

Partnerships

Since 20 May 1984, Seaford twinned Bönningstedt in Schleswig-Holstein Pinneberg.

Others

The art historian and double agent Anthony Blunt went into the city to school.

Seaford has with Peter White one of the longest active town crier in England and Wales, who in 1977 appointed by the district administration to Lewes.

With the Seaford Lifeguards, the city has a group of lifeguards. They work unpaid and guard the beaches of the resort.