Descriptive gazetteer entries

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
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

Travel writing

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.
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
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