Seaford is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, on the south coast, east of Newhaven and west of Eastbourne. It has a population of about 22,000.
The parliamentary constituency of Seaford was a notorious rotten borough until its disenfranchisement in the Reform Act 1832 when representation was incorporated into the Lewes constituency. Seaford returned three members of parliament who went on to become Prime Minister. Henry Pelham (represented the town from 1717 to 1722), William Pitt the Elder from 1747 to 1754 and George Canning in 1827.
Seaford has the westernmost of the South Coast Martello Towers, now a local history museum.
