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Eastbourne

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a popular and traditional sea-side resort on the south coast of England, about 110 km from London. It has a population of just about 100,000, making it the second largest town in Sussex. It lies at the eastern end of the South Downs range of chalk cliffs and hills: its most famous feature being Beachy Head, the highest chalk cliff in Southern England.

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"You go to Brighton!—I would not trust you so near it as Eastbourne for fifty pounds! [...]"

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Eric Arthur Blair, (George Orwell), was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, a British colony of India. He accompanied his mother to England at the age of one. He studied at St Cyprian’s School, in Eastbourne, Sussex before earning scholarships to Wellington and Eton colleges.

George Orwell. 1984 (intro) (1949)
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