W.D. Clarke’s Reviews > A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain > Status Update

Hey Matthew! As chance would have it, I hiked the South Downs Way this spring with my brother, and so was not far from you...it is incredibly beautiful indeed! True story, further on, above Lewes, we met a mountain biker, who eventually said his family had long owned land hereabouts. We asked where, and he made a circular gesture & replied, well, nearly all of it, & since 1066. (He, in spandex, some Earl of So&so)... Daniel D has this to say about thereabouts:

Lewis is a fine pleasant town, well built, agreeably situated in the middle of an open champaign country, and on the edge of the South Downs, the pleasantest, and most delightful of their kind in the nation; it lies on the bank of a little wholesome fresh river, within twelve miles of the sea; but that which adds to the character of this town, is, that both the town and the country adjacent, is full of gentlemen of good families and fortunes, of which the Pelhams may be named with the first. Here are also the ancient families of Gage, Shely, &c. formerly Roman, but now Protestant, with many others.

[Edit, lol in trying to delete my own post and make it a reply to you, Matthew, I deleted yours instead...what a maroon, all thumz]