Ladycross was a Catholic preparatory school in Seaford, East Sussex. Founded in 1891 in Briely Road, Bournemouth, and moving to a purpose-built school in Eastbourne Road, Seaford in 1909, more than 2,000 pupils attended it before its closure in 1977. Among its schoolmasters was children's book author George Mills, who taught during the summer of 1956. The school was located on its own 15-acre premises in Seaford from 1909 until 1978, apart from a short period during the Second World War when at the height of the German bombing raids on British towns in 1941, the school was temporarily evacuated to Salperton Park, Gloucestershire.