Victorian seaside town often overlooked by larger resorts has two-mile beach and one of the UK’s best pubs

A SEASIDE municipality with immense formation is often passed implicit successful favour of adjacent larger resorts, contempt having an important portion successful UK history.

Bexhill-on-Sea successful Sussex is adjacent the bigger St Leonard's, and welcomes acold less tourists.

This is contempt having a agelong two-mile beach, made of shingle, and with quaint cafes, formation gardens and formation hunts on the promenade.

Some adjacent accidental it's amended than the adjacent Brighton - 1 tourer wrote: "Compare this to engaged Brighton and there's nary examination if you conscionable privation a quiescent time connected the beach."

It is besides 1 of the sunniest places successful the UK, being on the Sussex coastline.

One of the main seafront attractions is the Art Deco De La Warr Pavilion, built successful 1934 and 1 of the country's archetypal modernist buildings.

Costing £80,000 to physique (working retired to £1.8million successful today's money), it is present utilized arsenic an creation gallery.

Bexhill-on-Sea has besides been dubbed the 'birthplace of British centrifugal racing'.

The municipality hosted the UK's archetypal centrifugal race successful 1902, won by French operator Leon Serpollet with speeds up to 54mph

Petrol heads tin present caput to Bexhill Museum to larn astir it's centrifugal history, arsenic good arsenic the town's past successful wide including dinosaurs and shipwrecks successful the area.

While not abbreviated of pubs, determination is 1 you should prime that was named one of the champion successful the country.

Brickmakers Alehouse was listed arsenic 1 the UK's apical pubs by Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) this year.

Otherwise determination is besides the The Picture Playhouse, a Wetherspoons pub built into a 1921 cinema.

TV presenter Graham Norton antecedently lived successful Bexhill, putting up his location for merchantability for £2.3million backmost successful 2017.

Other celebrated celebs see Eddie Izzard and Spike Milligan.

The municipality is besides getting a multi-million lb renovation, arsenic portion of the government's £20 cardinal levelling up scheme.

Fancy staying? Most of the places successful Bexhill-on-Sea are B&Bs and location rentals though determination are a fewer hotels.

There is the coastal The Relais Cooden Beach, with it's ain backstage beach, oregon the boutique The Driftwood with conscionable six rooms.

Trains to Bexhill instrumentality conscionable nether 2 hours from London, with routes from St Pancras and Victoria.

Or its an hour's thrust from Brighton, for day-trippers.

Another Victorian seaside municipality is Frinton-on-Sea successful Essex, which was loved by royals and adjacent visited by Winston Churchill.

Or determination is Matlock Bath, a 'seaside' municipality that isn't connected the beach - and we sent a newsman down to explore.