The Tiger Inn and Beachy Head Holiday Cottages have been recommended in a recent feature article in The Times newspaper. A “superb country pub” is how The Tiger is described in the article, which also refers to Beachy Head Holiday Cottages as “classy self-catering”. In the course of the feature, the author Christopher Somerville eloquently…

The new Beachy Head Holiday Cottages have won a prestigious Sussex Heritage Trust Award. The cottages were one of three winners in The Commercial Award category sponsored by Smiths Gore.  Fiveonal materials and craft skills. Three of the new cottages are located within the walled garden and guests are encouraged to pick those herbs, fruit…

We’re delighted to announce that our new holiday cottages are finished and ready for guests! We’ve worked hard to get every detail just right, and we’re now taking bookings for our cosy cottages. The finishing touches are in place, from the Egyptian cotton sheets to the trees in the walled garden. The first shallots and…

On 1 April, The Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) is organising a 28 mile walking event in Sussex. Starting in East Dean village, walkers have 10 hours to cover the epic course, which matches challenging terrain with spectacular views. The walking marathon costs £8 to enter (£7 for members) and promises to be a day…

What connects Sherlock Holmes, fictional star of countless adventures and adaptations, to East Dean, the sleepy village that lies a mile from Beachy Head? Well, amateur sleuths have deduced that the famous detective may have retired there. It’s true that the connections are, well, tenuous. But there are connections, and there is a reasonable case…

Beachy Head helped Eastbourne win the title of the sunniest place in the UK for 2011, after clocking up 1,962 hours of sunshine, more than anywhere else in the UK. The award troubled the neighbouring town of Hastings, who claim their own equipment recorded 2,010 hours of sunshine. Philip Eden, the Telegraph’s weather correspondent and…

Eager to burn off a few Christmas calories? If you enjoy bracing walks and the great outdoors you might find Nordic walking is the perfect exercise. Nordic walking incorporates the use of ski poles – and it’s the use of the poles and the movement of your arms that make Nordic walking an effective workout…

In the heart of East Dean’s historic village lies a walled garden. Built in the latter half of the 18th Century, the garden would have provided fruit and vegetables for Mr Dipperay and his family. After falling out of use sometime during the 1900s, the garden grew wild and unkempt. And so it stayed until…