[citation needed] John Eric Bartholomew OBE, stage name Eric Morecambe, of Morecambe & Wise fame, could trace his descent from John Bartholomew (c.1791–1854), a resident of Crowlink, Parish of Friston in the Census of 1841 and was living in the Parish of East Dean in the 1851 Census.

[4] There are a cafe, shop and visitor centre run by National Trust, and a metal staircase leading down to the enclosed pebble beach and the Seven Sisters chalk cliffs.

[11][12] In August 2017, hundreds of people suffered ill effects after a suspected chemical poisoning incident.

The coastline is part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest Seaford to Beachy Head, which falls within the parish.

[14] There is also extensive evidence and visible earthworks here for an Iron Age hillfort on the site – although nearly half of it has already been lost to the sea.

Information boards at the site show how it would have originally looked; however, even more will be lost due to the geological nature of these chalk cliffs.