Post Office Directory 1851, East Dean (near Eastbourne, East Sussex

East Dean (near Eastbourne) is a parish in the hundred of Willingdon, rape of Pevensey, and union of Eastbourne, 3 miles south-west of Eastbourne, and 5 east from Seaford. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Friston, in the gift, alternately, of the Bishop and Dean and chapter of Chichester. The parish contains 2,151 acres, with a population of 370. Here is the Beachy Head Lighthouse, also a preventive station.

Friston is an adjoining parish in the same hundred, union and rape, with 1,445 acres of land. Here also is a preventive station.

Letters received through Eastbourne

Pinnock Rev, George (vicar)
Ashby George, farmer
Ashby Richard, baker
Colwell Charles, “Tiger”
Float James, shoe maker
Gorringe John, farmer
Guy john, farmer, Friston
Hills John, blacksmith
Pierce John, bricklayer
Scrase Richard, farmer
Scrase William, farmer, Friston