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East Bourne
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East Bourne
en Eastbourne.
en Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World XXX (For the Years 1717. 1718. 1719.) London Printed for W. and J. Innys,at the Princes-Arms, at the West Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard 1720 800 The Britiſh Coaſt about Eaſt Bourne is the neareſt of any to the Mouth of the Seine:
III VI 124 “I am not going to run away, Papa,” said Kitty, fretfully; “if I should ever go to Brighton, I would behave better than Lydia.” “You go to Brighton!—I would not trust you so near it as East Bourne, for fifty pounds!”
en The Guide to East Bourne and Its Environs.A Descriptive Account of That Beautiful Watering-Place, and the Objects of Interest in Its Vicinity. Respectfully Dedicated to the Nobility and Gentry Resorting There. East Bourne Published and sold by E. M. E. & G. Hopkins,Heatherley’s Library, Sea Houses [1851] 5 On the Sussex coast, midway between Brighton and Hastings, and at the south-eastern extremity of the chain of hills, so well and so favorably known as the South Downs, is situate East Bourne—a watering-place of no mean repute.
en 1949 September and October Notes and News: The Eastbourne Centenary Railway Magazine 340 Before the coming of the railway East Bourne, as it was then styled, was a small village engaged in sheep farming and some agriculture and fishing; .