Let’s move to Lewes
Sep 01, 2022
3 minutes
esigner William Morris reputedly described Lewes in East Sussex, which is traversed by the River Ouse and surrounded by the South Downs, as ‘lying like a box of toys under a great amphitheatre of chalk hills…’ His playful analogy still holds true when wandering the narrow alleyways – ‘twittens’, in the local dialect. Toy soldiers there may not be, but medieval castle ruins, built after the Norman Conquest, stand guard over the 17,000-some residents. ‘Lewes is
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