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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Lewes. You may be able to find further references to Lewes in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source |
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Lewes | rape | Bartholomew |
LEWES | a town, several parishes, a sub-district, a district, and a rape | Imperial |
LEWES AND UCKFIELD RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
Lewes (or Mid) Division, The | parlimentary division | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Lewes within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
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William Cobbett | Jan. 8th to 11th, 1822: Sussex Journal | 12 |
William Camden | Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex | 4 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex | 4 |
William Cobbett | Jan. 21st to 22nd, 1822: Huntingdon Journal | 2 |
Robert Gammage | Liverpool and London in 1842 | 2 |
William Cobbett | Aug. 5th to 10th, 1823: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 |
Daniel Defoe | Letter 2, Part 3: Hampshire and Surrey | 1 |
Robert Gammage | On tramp in 1840, from London to the south coast | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Kingston Near Lewes | 0 | 2 |
Cliffe | 0 | 3 |
Southover | 0 | 1 |
South Malling | 1 | 2 |
Offham | 0 | 2 |
Hamsey | 0 | 2 |
Swanborough | 0 | 2 |
Iford | 0 | 3 |
Rodmell | 0 | 3 |
Glynde | 1 | 2 |
Southease | 0 | 2 |
Beddingham | 0 | 2 |
Falmer | 0 | 2 |
Ringmer | 0 | 3 |
Younsmere | 0 | 2 |
Totnore | 0 | 2 |
East Chiltington | 0 | 3 |
Barcombe | 0 | 3 |
Holmstrow | 0 | 2 |
Tarring Neville | 0 | 2 |