London to Lewes Way London to Lewes Way The London to Lewes Way is a long Roman road between Watling Street at Peckham and Lewes in Sussex. The road passes through Beckenham and West Wickham, then crosses the North Downs above Titsey, on the county boundary between Surrey and Kent, and is overlain by Edenbridge High Street. The road continues on this alignment onto the high ground of Ashdown Forest, where the more grassy vegetation on the silted up outer ditches contrasts very clearly with surrounding heather in aerial photographs, then descends through Piltdown to Lewes, linking with the Sussex Greensand Way at Barcombe
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