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See what's onPainting Competition: The Clergy House and Garden
An open painting competition inviting artists to capture the Clergy House and its garden. Available across the competition window during opening hours.
Rathfinny Summer Tours & Tastings
Small-group guided tours and tastings running Thursday to Sunday through the summer season, showing how Rathfinny makes its world-class vintage Sussex Sparkling wines. The experience combines a walk through the vines with an extended tasting of Sussex wines overlooking the Cuckmere Valley. Booking is recommended.
Seven Sisters Sunset Cruise
An evening RIB cruise along the Sussex coast to view the Seven Sisters cliffs as the sky fills with sunset colours. Departure times vary through the summer to track the changing sunset. Runs 1 hour, up to 11 passengers, all ages, with wildlife more active at dusk (seals, porpoise, seabirds).
H.H. Evans Centenary Exhibition
Centenary exhibition of pen and ink images of Seaford by 19th century local artist Harry Harrison Evans, in the Kathleen Aires room. Museum open Saturdays and Sundays 11am to 4pm, Wednesdays 2pm to 4pm, and Bank Holidays.
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All newsCliff warning at Birling Gap and Seaford Head over safety fears
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Source: BBCCaravans, campervans and pony seen on Seaford leisure centre’s football pitch
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Captain Lewis Crook — Seaford's Sporting Godfather
His name is on the founding records of Seaford Cricket Club, the Seaford Rovers football club and, at one remove, the town's volunteer fire brigade. Captain Lewis Crook was the Victorian who seems to have started everything in Seaford that involved a pitch or a uniform, and yet almost nothing about the man himself is settled, including whether the cricket club really began in 1860 or thirty years later.
How Seaford Lost Its Sea: The 1539 Diversion of the Ouse
For centuries the River Ouse reached the sea under Seaford Head, and the harbour it made turned a Sussex village into a Cinque Port with two Members of Parliament. Then, in 1539, commissioners of sewers cut a new outlet through the shingle three miles west at Meeching. The village was renamed New Haven. Seaford was left with a beach. The strangest part of the story is that nobody was trying to take the town's harbour away: the cut was a farmers' land-drainage scheme, paid for by a tax on flooded fields twenty miles inland.
French Pirates and the Three Burnings of Seaford
Long before the smugglers and the Martello tower, Seaford was a front-line Cinque Port on a hostile channel. Between 1339 and 1545 French raiders burned the town down and it was rebuilt at least three times, once so completely that the record calls it "in ruins and deserted". The story runs from the opening campaigns of the Hundred Years War, through a 15th century attempt to move the entire town to Seaford Head, to the 1,500 French troops who landed at the Buckle in July 1545 and were driven back into the sea by Sussex longbowmen.
Community Groups
All groupsAge UK East Sussex
Charity & VoluntaryAge UK East Sussex is an independent charity working in East Sussex to offer support and services to older people. The organisation has been working in the local community for over 70 years, providing information and advice on benefit checks, pension credit, attendance allowance, housing, finding support at home, choosing residential care, and health and social care. Services cover the Seaford area and the wider county.
Annecy PTA
Youth & EducationParent-Teacher Association for Annecy Catholic Primary School, Seaford. Runs Nearly New Sales (clothes, toys, books, home items) and other school fundraising events.
Bizzybirds Networking
BusinessWomen's business networking group founded by Jane King, running monthly drop-in meetings across four East Sussex towns including Seaford (at The Old Plough). Established to offer a welcoming alternative to early-hours male-dominated networking — meetings start at 10am.
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