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Mill Road, WINCHELSEA, TN36 4HT

A residential street linking Castle Street to Robert's Hill, the A259. The building on the left is The Old Post Office, marked as such on the 1898 and 1909 OS maps but had moved to High Street by the 1929 edition. On the right are Salutation Cottages, dating from the 15th century and once the Salutation Inn that is now three cottages.

Linking Roberts Hill, the A259, to Castle Street. On the original medieval plan of Winchelsea this was known as Second Street. Pound Cottage is the dwelling on the left.

Open on this day due to a cellar tour in the town, about 15 people have just descended into the cellar which is owned by the National Trust. The cellars were built when the town was planned for the lucrative medieval wine trade with Gascony for which Winchelsea was the main port. In many cases the cellars were built before the houses and thus many are accessible from the street rather than inside the building. There are currently 33 still accessible with another 17 known about. In the case of Salutation Cottages which was once an inn its cellar would have been used for the storage of beer.

This church stands in Winchelsea, East Sussex. The smallest town in England to have a Mayor.

The A259 used to go right through Winchelsea itself, a place reputed to be England's smallest town and perhaps even England's oldest new town, laid out in a grid pattern in the fourteenth century. Today the trunk road descends steeply to the stone 'Land Gate' - the slope shown here, and presents the driver with a dramatic hairpin-bend at the bottom. The valley in the background is that of the River Brede.

Also referred to as Pipewell Gate

One of the features of Rye for which it has long been famous is its potteries, especially the plaques which are found on many of the houses in Rye as well as in neighbouring places such as Winchelsea. Sadly many of the original potteries making these plaques seem to have closed. This example is in Castle Street in Winchelsea on the corner with Mill Road. For more about the history of Winchelsea see https://www.visit1066country.com/destinations/winchelsea/history-of-winchelsea