UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

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!

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.
 

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.
 

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.

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!

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!
 

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!

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.
 

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.
 

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.