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St John Sub Castro (under the castle) was rebuilt in 1839, and has a cast iron galleried Nave. The seven acre churchyard with its obelisk commissioned in 1877 by Czar Alexander II to commemorate 28 prisoners of war who died 1854-57 in the county gaol nearby, and who were captured in the Baltic during the Crimean War. The churchyard also forms the Northwest angle of the ancient Town wall.
Pipe Passage, named after an 18th century clay pipe maker's kiln, this lane follows the line of the sentry walk on the town wall from the West gate. The round house is the former town windmill built in 1802.
Keere Street, is Lewes's oldest, picturesque, steep, cobbled street, lined with ancient houses and runs along the line of the medieval ditch. According to popular legend the Prince Regent (later George IV) drove a coach and four down here.
Cliffe High Street, a medieval street, with overhanging, timber framed buildings and still a bustling thoroughfare today. It is approached from the west down the steep School Hill, through the new pedestrian shopping precinct, and over the graceful humped-back bridge, built in 1727, that spans the tidal river Ouse.
Thomas Paine (1737-1809), radical,
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