Seaford, a small and ancient watering-place on the Sussex coast, 3 miles E. of Newhaven by rail. It was a dependency of the Cinque Port of Hastings in the 15th century; and when it was disfranchised in 1832, had long been notorious for electoral corruption. Of late it has grown in size and prosperity. Pop. (1851) 997; (1891) 2425.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 276
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