Fiona Barltrop steps back in time on the South Downs
ITUATED in a gap in the South Downs by the River Ouse, Lewes – the county town of East Sussex – is a place of much historic interest and character. There’s the Norman castle, the 15th-Century timber-framed Anne-of-Cleves House and the Fifteenth Century Bookshop, as well as the 11th-Century remains of Lewes Priory. But it’s an area of grassy open access chalk downland and woodland to the north-west of the town where the most significant
