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
USS City of Lewes (SP-383) USS City of Lewes (SP-383) USS "City of Lewes" (SP-383), later USS "Lewes" (SP-383), was a minesweeper and patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. "City of Lewes" was built as a commercial fishing boat of the same name in 1912 by W. G. Abbott at Milford, Delaware. In May 1917, the U.S. Navy purchased her for use on the section patrol as a minesweeper and patrol vessel during World War I. She was commissioned as USS "City of Lewes" (SP-383) on 12 May 1917 with Lieutenant J. S. Davis, USNR, in command, although