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Phoenix Place, LEWES, BN7 1JX

The line between Lewes to Uckfield was shut in 1969 ostensibly due to flooding but in reality due to Lewes Council wanting to build the Phoenix Causeway bypass. The railway travelled through the Cliffe part of Lewes on a viaduct and via embankments, the latter being too expensive to bridge, so some agreement was reached with British Railways to dismantle the line and sell the land, a decision still being felt today by those using the truncated line from Uckfield to London. It was roughly at this point that the railway crossed the river.

So named as the path once followed the course of the old town wall which would have been on the right hand side. It stretched much further to the north than its current ending at Wellington Street.

When the church was erected in 1843, the tower had been given a ‘pepper box’ ornamentation by an individual who “wanted to put something on top of it”. However, by 1915 the old tower had become unsafe because it was not weather-proof and it was suffering from the vibrations of heavy traffic. So the church removed the ‘pepper box’ and rebuilt the upper part into its present pyramid form. http://lewesbaptistchurch.org.uk/?page_id=383

Small cul-de-sac off Wellington Street which once would have linked to Little East Street but was shut off when the road was widened to provide access for Phoenix Causeway.

A survivor of the massive rebuilding that has gone on in this street, the house is now a Grade II listed building and awaiting new ownership after the council moved its transport offices to Ringmer. The small building behind Eastgate House is the former Eastgate Stoneworks show rooms whose stone cutters yard was behind it. In the distance the remaining houses of Green Wall can be seen. The area to the right out of picture is now Waitrose Supermarket.