Kingston near Lewes
Kingston near Lewes is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England.
Kingston near Lewes is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and is located two miles (3.2 km) south of Lewes and is nestled in the South Downs. The parish is part of two Sites of Special Scientific Interest: the Lewes Brooks and Kingston Escarpment and Iford Hill.
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Worth seeing in and around Kingston near Lewes
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Lewes Castle
Lewes Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Lewes in East Sussex, England. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding the gap in the South Downs cut by the River Ouse and occupied by the towns of Lewes and Cliffe.
2.4 km · Grade I listed ruins in Lewes, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Monk's House
Monk's House is a 17th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles south of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel, Lewes, on 1 July 1919 for 700 pounds, and received there many visitors connected to the Bloomsbury Group, including T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey.
3.5 km · historic house in Rodmell, East Sussex, now a National Trust property, was from 1919 until their deaths the home of Virginia and Leonard Woolf · Wikipedia - 03Lewes Priory
Lewes Priory is a part-demolished medieval Cluniac priory in Lewes, East Sussex in the United Kingdom. The ruins have been designated a Grade I listed building.
2.2 km · Grade I listed ruins in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St John sub Castro, Lewes
The Church of St John sub Castro is an Anglican church in Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, England. It was built in 1839 on the site of an 11th-century Saxon church, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.
2.7 km · grade II listed church in Lewes, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Russian Memorial, Lewes
The Russian Memorial is an obelisk in the churchyard of St John sub Castro in Lewes, the county town of East Sussex, England. It was erected in 1877 at the behest of Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, in memory of 28 Finnish soldiers of the Russian Army of the Crimean War who died while prisoners of war in Lewes between 1854 and 1856.
2.8 km · memorial in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Barbican House Museum
Barbican House is a sixteenth century house next to Lewes Castle. It is now used as a museum, and is the headquarters of the Sussex Archaeological Society.
2.4 km · house museum next to Lewes castle, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Offham Hill Causewayed Enclosure
Offham Hill is a causewayed enclosure near Lewes, East Sussex, England. Causewayed enclosures were built in England from shortly before 3700 BC until about 3300 BC; they are characterized by the full or partial enclosure of an area with ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways.
3.2 km · archaeological site in Hamsey, Lewes, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Anne of Cleves House
Anne of Cleves House is a 16th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house located in Lewes, East Sussex, England. It formed part of Queen Anne's annulment settlement from King Henry VIII in 1541, although she never visited the property.
2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Lewes, Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Southerham Grey Pit
Southerham Grey Pit is a 8.5-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest south-east of Lewes in East Sussex. It is a Geological Conservation Review site.
3.5 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in East Sussex, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10The Dripping Pan
The Dripping Pan is a football stadium in Lewes, England. It has been home to Lewes F.C. since their foundation in 1885.
2.5 km · stadium in the UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kingston near Lewes
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 34 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 75 km · London Stansted (STN), 115 km
- Stations
- Lewes railway station, 2.5 km · Lewes bus station, 2.9 km
- London → Kingston near Lewes73 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £8–11
- London, Essex → Kingston near Lewes73 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £8–11
- Luton, Luton → Kingston near Lewes117 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kingston near Lewes
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kingston near Lewes. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are in Europe, you can take a ferry from Dieppe to Newhaven.
- Get inIf you are catching a ferry, you may wish to park your car in the town.
- Get aroundBoth of these places are within walking distance from the station and ferry port.
- Go nextCatch a ferry to Dieppe, see the Get in section.
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Next door to Kingston near Lewes
- Lewestown in East Sussex, England2.8 km
- Ifordvillage and civil parish in East Sussex, UK1.3 km
- Rodmellvillage in East Sussex, United Kingdom3.1 km
- St Ann Withoutcivil parish in East Sussex, England1.8 km