Free Days Out in Eastbourne

It is a working cliff edge in an area of active erosion, so it demands the sort of attention a park does not. Keep to the marked paths and well back from the edge, and be aware that the beach below is reached by steps and can be cut off by the tide. Birling Gap rewards the care it asks for, but it is not somewhere to let a small child run ahead while you look at the view.

Sovereign Centre Leisure Pools appears here on the basis of how the listing records its entry arrangements, and swimming venues very often have sessions and terms that differ by day, age and time. That makes it the entry on this page most worth confirming directly before you set out, since a session that is free at one hour is not necessarily free at another. Verify with the centre itself.

Redoubt Fortress records both indoor and outdoor space, which for a fort means walls to walk and rooms to go into. Historic military sites tend to work well with children because the structure itself does the explaining, and there is usually somewhere to climb. Access arrangements at heritage sites change with seasons and restoration work more than most, so check what is open before building an afternoon around it.