Our History and Heritage category brings all Coast Radar’s Lewes listings related to looking for something to do or a place to visit together where they offer some form of historic or heritage based activity.
Finding the best things to see and do on a Lewes East Sussex day out with your family or friends is easy – simply explore the historic and heritage links below, hit the jump to my location button or use the search bar to plan your next Lewes activity.
Lewes Castle is positioned at the highest point of Lewes, East Sussex, and was originally called Bray Castle. Prior to the stone castle evidence exists of a wooden keep. The castle is a motte and bailey construction but unlike most it has two mottes. Built in 1060’s by William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, and brother-in-law of William the Read more…
Charleston is a property associated with the Bloomsbury group, that is open to the public. The Bloomsbury group included some of the twentieth century’s most pioneering artists, writers and thinkers. Read more…
Monk’s House, Country retreat of the novelist Virginia Woolf until 1969. The house shows life and times of literary circle in which they moved with extracts from Virginia’s diaries and photographs on display. Read more…
Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum includes a motor museum, tea rooms, house, formal garden and wildfowl reserve. Read more…
Anne of Cleves House is a 15th-century timber-framed Wealden hall house. It formed part of Queen Anne’s annulment settlement from King Henry VIII in 1541, although it is believed she never visited the property. Today the house shows a wide-ranging collection of furniture and artefacts of Sussex interest. Read more…