Seaford, East Sussex

Seaford is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, on the south coast, east of Newhaven, Brighton and west of Eastbourne. It has a population of about 22,000.

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County - East Sussex - England - Newhaven - Brighton - Eastbourne

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The parliamentary constituency of Seaford was a notorious rotten borough until its disenfranchisement in the Reform Act 1832 when representation was incorporated into the Lewes constituency. Seaford returned three members of parliament who went on to become Prime Minister. Henry Pelham (represented the town from 1717 to 1722), William Pitt the Elder from 1747 to 1754 and George Canning in 1827.

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Parliamentary constituency - Rotten borough - Reform Act 1832 - Lewes constituency - Members of parliament - Prime Minister - Henry Pelham - William Pitt the Elder - George Canning

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Seaford has the westernmost of the South Coast Martello Towers, now a local history museum.

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