East Dean and Friston

East Dean and Friston is covered by postcode district BN20. It is in the Wealden council area, East Sussex.

Typical price £637,500 Homes sold in East Dean and Friston, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 5 of 84 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Not on the at-risk list No postcode here has a home or business in an area at risk from rivers or the sea Nearest school Pashley Down Infant School 3.5 km from the middle, in a straight line

Every postcode in East Dean and Friston, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in East Dean and Friston, by flood risk Of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston that ONS places, 84 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: East Dean and Friston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A259 BN20 0AG: not on the flood risk listBN20 0AR: not on the flood risk listBN20 0AS: not on the flood risk listBN20 0AT: not on the flood risk listBN20 0AU: not on the flood risk listBN20 0AX: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BD: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BL: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BP: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BS: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BT: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BU: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BX: not on the flood risk listBN20 0BY: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DA: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DB: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DD: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DG: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DH: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DJ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DL: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DN: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DP: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DQ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DR: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DS: not on the flood risk listBN20 0DT: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EA: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EB: not on the flood risk listBN20 0ED: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EF: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EG: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EH: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EJ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EL: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EN: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EP: not on the flood risk listBN20 0ER: not on the flood risk listBN20 0ES: not on the flood risk listBN20 0ET: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EU: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EW: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EX: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EY: not on the flood risk listBN20 0EZ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HA: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HB: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HD: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HP: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HR: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HS: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HT: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HU: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HX: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HY: not on the flood risk listBN20 0HZ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JA: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JB: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JD: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JF: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JG: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JH: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JJ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JL: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JN: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JP: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JR: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JS: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JT: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JU: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JX: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JY: not on the flood risk listBN20 0JZ: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LA: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LB: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LE: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LF: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LG: not on the flood risk listBN20 0LJ: not on the flood risk list East Dean and Friston Map of every postcode in East Dean and Friston, by flood risk Of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston that ONS places, 84 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: East Dean and Friston. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. East Dean and Friston
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 84

Of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston that ONS places, 84 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 50.7624, longitude 0.2074. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

What is it like to live in East Dean and Friston?

Homes sold for a typical £637,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 5 of the 84 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 84 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. The nearest school is Pashley Down Infant School, 3.5 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Victoria Medical Centre, 3.8 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Eastbourne, 5.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in East Dean and Friston?

Homes in East Dean and Friston sold for a typical £637,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 22 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £780,000 from 18 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£637,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£780,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £647,500 20 sales
  • Semi-detached 1 sale, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Across the whole BN20 district, East Dean and Friston's main postcode district: a typical £365,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in East Dean and Friston: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in East Dean and Friston?

None of the 84 postcodes now in use in East Dean and Friston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 18 homes sold in East Dean and Friston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BN20 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn East Dean and FristonAcross the BN20 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 22 (0%) 0 of 261 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 18 (0%) 0 of 341 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in East Dean and Friston?

Ofcom reports on 84 of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston. At 5 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit5 of 84
Postcodes where every home can get superfast82 of 84

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is East Dean and Friston at risk of flooding?

None of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in East Dean and Friston?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in East Dean and Friston; these are the nearest to its middle. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from East Dean and Friston?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in East Dean and Friston is Eastbourne Rail Station, 5.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Eastbourne Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Hampden Park (Sussex) Rail Station Railway station 6.3 kmDrive
  • Polegate Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in East Dean and Friston?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in East Dean and Friston. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is East Dean and Friston safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 43 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in East Dean and Friston over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2 September 2025
  2. 2 October 2025
  3. 1 November 2025
  4. None December 2025
  5. 4 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 6 March 2026
  8. 3 April 2026
  9. 3 May 2026
  10. 5 June 2026
  11. 2 July 2026
  12. 6 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences16 reports
Anti-social behaviour7 reports
Public order4 reports
Criminal damage and arson4 reports
Burglary3 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports
Drugs3 reports
Other theft2 reports

Also: other crime 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs East Dean and Friston?

District, borough or city council
Wealden
County council
East Sussex
Parliamentary constituency
Lewes
Police force area
Sussex
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
James MacCleary (Liberal Democrat)

All 84 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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East Dean and Friston postcodes

84 postcodes in use in East Dean and Friston, by district:

BN20 postcode district,84 postcodes

That district is in the BN postcode area.

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Places near East Dean and Friston

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside East Dean and Friston's £637,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Eastbourne5.8 km, £275,000Lower Willingdon5.8 km, £350,000Seaford7.1 km, £370,000Polegate7.2 km, £295,000Stone Cross8.6 km, £346,500Crumbles9.5 km, £298,500Westham10.0 km, £314,750Newhaven11.6 km, £300,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about East Dean and Friston

What is the postcode for East Dean and Friston?
Postcode district BN20, with 84 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is East Dean and Friston in?
Wealden, with East Sussex as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for East Dean and Friston?
James MacCleary (Liberal Democrat), for Lewes. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in East Dean and Friston?
A typical £637,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 22 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in East Dean and Friston?
The nearest primary school to the middle of its postcodes is Pashley Down Infant School, 3.5 km away; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Cavendish School, 4.2 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does East Dean and Friston have a railway station?
The nearest is Eastbourne station, 5.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in East Dean and Friston?
Ofcom reports on 84 of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston. At 5 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is East Dean and Friston at risk of flooding?
None of the 84 postcodes in East Dean and Friston is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in East Dean and Friston?
None of the 84 postcodes now in use in East Dean and Friston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 18 homes sold in East Dean and Friston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BN20 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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