Lewes, Sussex Visit March 2002 - page 1
We thought we'd visit Lewes, the historic county town
of East Sussex. We saw the famous court, typical Sussex Twittens,
the River Ouse and Cliffe area and lunched in The Dorset Arms next to
Harvey's Brewery.
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Lewes is a very historic Sussex town where many well-known people have
lived and buildings have name plates on the wall to describe why the
building is of note. We cannot remember what this one said now!
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This is another name plate on the wall at Southover Park in Lewes,
giving details on its history. What a good idea of the local
council to do this, we found lots of these on our trek through the town.
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This is Lewes County Court, famous for many major court cases in
Sussex, most recently the Sarah Payne case. The road is actually
the main one through the town, we snapped the picture quickly during a
rare traffic lull.
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The famous Sussex 'Twitten', a little lane that runs between buildings,
providing a very useful shortcut if you know where you're going!
We didn't, except we were heading for lunch somewhere and exploring
Lewes on the way.
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This building used to be an engine shed on the railway when there was a
line between Lewes and Uckfield. It's now a café and market
area. There's talk of re-opening the line, so unfortunately
this'll have to go if they do! Opps!
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Looking north from the bridge over the River Ouse in Lewes.
Harvey's brewery, badly flooded during the floods of 2000, is on the
right. The smell of the hops made us decide to seek out a nice
pub for lunch at this point!
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Cliffe High Street at the eastern end of Lewes was a narrow, busy place
with delivery lorries blocking the road. We noted Harvey's had a
brewery shop, but Belinda managed to yank Mike away before he could go
in!
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We lunched at 'The Dorset Arms' at the eastern end of Cliffe High
Street. We can definitely recommend this place if you're ever in
Lewes, there's good food, good beer and friendly service in two bars
and an outside garden.
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Here we are, tucking in to our food at The Dorset Arms. The
Harvey's beer went down well too! Both the food and the drink in
the pub were mmm, yummy, and it was a good, relaxing lunch break after
our morning spent walking round Lewes.
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Well, that went down well! This set us up for our walk around the
rest of Lewes and back up the hill to the main part of town and the
castle. There's links to Sussex and Lewes tourist resources on
our tourist links page.
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