Second interesting fact about Lewes: it has two castles, essentially side by side; but it’s quite a job to see the earlier one (only the motte remains) - the houses are too closely built to allow it from most of the surrounding streets. You can see both from the hills around, but we only realized today that you can see the first castle from the town itself. Here’s a satellite view:
The later Castle is in the lower left quarter of the image and is labelled. If you track NE from there, the motte of the original castle is just north of the Maltings car park, on the east side of Castle Banks, with the text “The Lewes Arms” printed over it - door to door we’re talking about just over 100 meters between them.
And here’s the view we discovered today. Once the trees are in leaf, it would be really difficult to make this out - the view from Castle Banks:
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