Walk from Eastbourne to East Dean

Walk with the NVC walking group
From Eastbourne to East Dean
Length: 13.5 km (8.4 miles)
The walk starts on Eastbourne’s pleasant seafront, and then follows the coast into a valley (with fine downland flowers and butterflies in summer), from where it is a climb up onto Beachy Head for lunch. The next stretch is one of the great classic coastal walks, a descent along the chalk cliffs down to Birling Gap for tea. From there, we walk along some of the 'Seven Sisters' chalk cliffs before we go inland to the village of East Dean. In East Dean there are further refreshment options and frequent buses back to Eastbourne.