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 the Cliffe area, and enjoyed lunch in The Dorset
Arms next to Harvey's Brewery.
This is page one of two.
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Lewes is a very historic Saxon town where many well-known people have
lived in the past and buildings have description plates on the wall to
inform why the building is of note. We cannot remember what this
one said now!
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This is another historic plate on the wall at Southover Park in Lewes,
giving details on its history. What a good idea of the local
Lewes Council to do this, we found lots of these on our trek through
this rather attractive Sussex town.
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Here's Lewes County Court in the High Street and famous for many major
court cases in Sussex. The road is actually the main one through
the town; we snapped this picture quickly during a rare lull in traffic
and avoided getting squished.
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The famous Sussex 'Twitten', a little lane that runs alongside 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 along 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
shopping area. There's talk of re-opening the line, so
unfortunately this'll have to go if they do! Doh!
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Looking north from the bridge over the River Ouse in Lewes, and on the
right is Harvey's brewery, badly flooded during the floods of
2000. The wonderful aroma of the hops encouraged us 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 trucks blocking the road. We noted Harvey's had a
brewery shop, but Belinda managed to yank Mike away before he
succumbed! A little further along and...
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...we lunched at the Dorset Arms at the eastern end of Cliffe High
Street. We can definitely recommend this pub if you're ever in
Lewes, there's good food, good beer and friendly service in two bars
and a small outside garden.
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Here we are, tucking into 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 nicely for our walk
around the rest of Lewes and back up the hill to the main part of town
and Lewes Castle (next page).
There's links to Sussex and Lewes tourist resources in our tourist resources.
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