Willingdon ancient ecclesiastical parish stretched across the entire north of the town of Eastbourne, reaching the English Channel at Langney Point.

Jevington is a former estate village owned in the nineteenth century by the Duke of Devonshire who used part of it as a training centre for his race-horses.

[8] In 1896 he sold the estate village and 1,000 acre farm to Charlie Wood, one of the premier jockeys of the late -Victorian period who continued to train horses on the Sussex Downs until 1919.

[9] Race horse training continues at Jevington in the early twenty first century containing the yard of trainer Anna Newton-Smith.

Credit for the pie's invention was claimed by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding, owner and head chef, respectively of the former Hungry Monk Restaurant[11][12] They claimed to have created the dessert in 1972, basing it on a San Francisco recipe for "Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie"[13] The restaurant closed in 2012 with the building now forming the Hungry Monk cottages.

Filching Manor Motor Museum is the home of Blue Bird K3, the last remaining intact Bluebird boat – a Rolls-Royce engined speedboat driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell to take the World Water Speed Record in 1937.

Filching Manor is also the site of the annual Jevington Fête, and it houses a public karting track (the Campbell Circuit) in the grounds for arrive-and-drive sessions, and other race events.

Its surrounding area contains a diverse chalk flora including the protected hairy mallow Althaea hirsuta.

[18] The Labour cabinet minister George Brown lived in the area and when elevated to the peerage became Lord George-Brown of Jevington.