London to Lewes Way Hill on the east side of Lewes. The road passes east of Streater's Farm, which is likely to have taken its name from the road, and runs east of the modern road to Duddleswell until crossing it north of Fairwarp church. A slag metalled "agger" exists at Old Workhouse Farm where the road leaves the open forest. Before reaching the roundabout on the A22 road there is a wide terrace cut into a sandstone outcrop. After passing west of Maresfield the road can be traced through Park Wood and Fairhazel Wood at Piltdown as an "agger" with slag metalling. A
Lewes France, since 1963, although informal links between these two towns began in 1947. One theory has it that the name Lewes comes from the plural form of Anglo-Saxon "Hlaew", which means "hill". This refers to the hills of the South Downs or ancient burial mounds within the area; but "A Dictionary of British Place Names" says that it derives "From the rare OE word "lǣw" ‘wound, incision’, here used in a topographical sense ‘gap’." Lewes Lewes () is the county town of East Sussex and formerly all of Sussex. It is a civil parish and is the centre of the