Place Name
Takes its name from the seaside town of Eastbourne (meaning the Eastern brook or stream). Like the adjacent Bexhill Road, it was named by its developers after an East Sussex seaside town, probably in the mistaken belief that St Leonards Road was itself named after the district in another of the county’s resorts, Hastings. This road was laid out over the grounds of Leinster House, which had been knocked down in 1930. The house had been built by R F Stratton and stood on the north side of St Leonard’s Road.
