About the town » Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Great Britain

Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a town in the county of East Sussex, in the south of England, within the District of Rother. It has a population of approximately 40,000. The Anglo-Saxon name for the settlement was Bexelei, from leah—a glade where the box tree grows.