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Harvey's brewery shop in Cliffe High Street, Lewes, May 2007. Harvey's produces cask-conditioned, kegged, canned and bottled ales. In the case of cask-conditioned and bottled ales there is a range which is always available ("all-year"), and then a selection of "seasonal" ales. The brewery's former depot (beside Lewes railway station) in April 2007
Soldiers left the castle to engage with Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes in 1264. [3] Towers were added to one of the shell keeps in the 13th century and a barbican gate was added in the 14th century. [2] When the last of the de Warennes, John, the 7th Earl, died without issue in 1347, he was buried in Lewes Priory. [2]
The place-name "Lewes" is first attested in an Anglo-Saxon charter circa 961 AD, where it appears as Læwe.It appears as Lewes in the Domesday Book of 1086. [7] The addition of the <-s> suffix seems to have been part of a broader trend of Anglo-Norman scribes pluralising Anglo-Saxon place-names (a famous example being their rendering of Lunden as Londres, hence the modern French name for London).
Founded in 1855, they represent the St. John's area north of Lewes Castle, based on Commercial Square, which is where their headquarters, the Elephant and Castle pub, is based. The pioneers are Native Americans (this theme was picked after Lewesians visited the US in the 19th century and realised their hardships) [ 29 ] and American Civil War ...
On 18 June 1846 a meeting was convened by Mark Antony Lower, William Henry Blaauw and William Figg at County Hall in Lewes at which the Sussex Archaeological Society was formally established. [ 1 ] In 1864 the Society appointed its first curator and librarian, and in 1866 the first museum catalogue was compiled.
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In December 2006 Harvey's popular best bitter Harveys Best was removed from sale from the Lewes Arms in Lewes; a 133-day boycott of the Lewes Arms by the people of Lewes ensued until Harveys Best was reinstated. [26] A rebranding in 2016 saw Harveys include the strapline We wunt be druv, the unofficial motto of the county of Sussex. This comes ...