Lewes Film Club, the Oyster Project disability charity and many local organisations.

Adopted by the Royal Sussex Regiment and popularised in World War I, it is sung at celebrations across the county, including those at Lewes Bonfire, and at sports matches, including those of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club and Sussex County Cricket Club.

On the east bank there is a large chalk cliff Cliffe Hill that can be seen for many miles, part of the group of hills including Mount Caburn, Malling Down ( where there are a few houses in a wooded area on the hillside, in a development known as Cuilfail ) and Golf Hill ( home to the Lewes Golf Club ).

Local dance schools and clubs include Lewes Dance Club, East Sussex Dance and ballet groups.

Popular music gigs take place at a number of venues and pubs across the town including the Lewes Con Club, the Snowdrop Inn, the Volunteer Pub, the Lewes Arms, The John Harvey Tavern, The Pelham Arms and The Lansdown.

Lewes Priory Cricket Club are based at the Stanley Turner Ground, Kingston Road.

Lewes Rugby Football Club, founded in 1930, runs several rugby teams at various competitive levels, including the senior men's sides, the women's, girls ' and junior teams.

Lewes Wanderers Cycling Club was reconstituted in 1950.

Lewes Athletic Club caters for junior and senior athletes.

There are a number of Service Clubs in Lewes of which one is the Lewes Lions Club which is a member of Lions Clubs International, the largest Service Organisation in the world.

In February 2010, Newman performed as Thunderclap Newman with a new line-up at the Con Club In Lewes, Sussex.

There is now only one fishable lake in the parish, Cornwell's Reservoir which is controlled by Lewes Angling Club.

There is also a major " International Competition ", run by Lewes Lions Club and held in Lewes every year.

* 1999 Lewes Working Men's Club

* Lewes Lions Club Toad in the Hole website

In some areas, particularly in Sussex, there are extensive processions, large bonfires and firework displays organised by local bonfire societies, the most elaborate of which take place in Lewes.

Initially the conflict went badly for King Henry, and after the Battle of Lewes in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, Prince Edward, was given over to the rebels as a hostage.

The town was the site of the Battle of Lewes between the forces of Henry III and Simon de Monfort in the Second Barons ’ War in 1264, at the end of which de Monfort's forces were victorious.

On 31 March 2009 Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, announced his decision to confirm the designation of the South Downs National Park, which came into being exactly one year later and includes the town of Lewes within its boundaries.

* Lewes Old Grammar School, an independent school which also has a sixth form.

The principal town museum is Barbican House Museum at Lewes Castle, which hosts the Lewes Town Model as well as four galleries of Sussex archaeology.

An annual Lewes Guitar Festival which started in 1999 has not operated since the late 2000s.

Bright 106. 4 FM radio station, based in Burgess Hill, broadcasts to an area which extends to Lewes.

Lewes has its own RSL radio station, Rocket FM, which broadcasts via FM and the Internet for three weeks in October / November each year, covering the Bonfire period.

which has adult teams competing in the Mid Sussex Football League and Lewes and District Sunday League in addition to a number of junior teams across age groups.

U. S. 9 runs an east – west path through Sussex County, running east from U. S. Route 13 in Laurel, passing through Georgetown, east to Lewes, where it leads to the Cape May – Lewes Ferry, which carries U. S. 9 across the Delaware Bay to New Jersey.

* Lewes River, previous name of the upper portion of the Yukon River which runs through Yukon, Canada, and Alaska, USA.

Some of these were merely agricultural estates with a single foreign monk in residence to supervise things, others were rich foundations in their own right ( e. g. Lewes Priory which was a daughter of Cluny and answered to the abbot of that great French house ).

More than 200 firefighters from Milford, Ellendale, Harrington, Felton, Dover, Smyrna, Houston, Frederica, Slaughter Beach, Bowers Beach, Greenwood, South Bowers, Farmington, Magnolia, Cheswold, Lewes, Georgetown, and Bridgeville in Delaware and Greensboro and Goldsboro in Maryland fought the blaze which destroyed seven businesses, a church, and three apartments, destroying an entire city block in the historic section of town.

Three bridges cross it at Lewes: Willey's Bridge ( a small footbridge opened in 1965 ), the Phoenix Causeway ( a larger road bridge named after the extinct Phoenix Ironworks ), and Cliffe Bridge ( which is much older ).

Whilst in 1801 there were 51 barges registered as trading on the river ( 21 of which worked the river above Lewes ), the navigation was never a huge commercial success.

Lewes was married to Agnes Jervis, but they had agreed to have an open marriage, and in addition to the three children they had together, Agnes had also had four children by Thornton Leigh Hunt.

The trip to Germany also served as a honeymoon as Evans and Lewes now considered themselves married, with Evans calling herself Marian Evans Lewes, and referring to Lewes as her husband.

He built Lewes Castle on the Saxon site ; and he and his wife, Gundred also founded the Priory of St Pancras, a Cluniac priory, in about 1081.

One can walk over Mount Caburn to the village of Glynde starting in Cliffe, traverse the Lewes Brooks ( an RSPB reserve ) from Southover, walk to Kingston near Lewes also from Southover, or wander up along the Ouse to Hamsey Place from the Pells.

Lewes Brooks, also of biological importance, is part of the floodplain of the River Ouse, providing a habitat for many invertebrates such as water beetles and snails.

In Lewes this event not only marks the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, but also commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs burnt at the stake for their faith during the Marian Persecutions.

Viva Lewes was founded as a weekly web magazine in January 2006 and also as a monthly print handbook in October 2006 covering events and activities in and around the Lewes area.

The town is also home to Lewes Bridge View F. C.

The town of New Deale was also renamed Lewistown ( today known as Lewes ).

The tidal stretches also contain Flounder as far inland as the tidal limit, Bass upstream to Lewes, and Mullet.

It is also located on the Seaford Branch Line from Lewes ; there are two operating stations: Newhaven Town and Newhaven Harbour.

The Warenne family also owned Sandal Castle near Wakefield, Lewes Castle in Sussex, and Reigate Castle in Surrey, as well as a keep on their lands at Mortemer in Normandy.

The department has also worked with HMP Lewes since 1988 in projects such as inmate-designed puppet shows influenced by works such as Verdi's Falstaff.

There are also annual folk music festivals at Eastbourne, Crawley and Lewes.

The Lewes terminal, also built in 1988, was expanded and renovated at the same time.

In 1987, he was elected as a councillor on the Lewes District Council, and two years later was also elected to the local county council of East Sussex.

The department is mainly responsible for security at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, but also provides security at the New Castle Airport ( and the Corporate Complex located adjacent to the New Castle Airport ), the Civil Air Terminal at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Airpark in Dover, the Three Forts Ferry Crossing in Delaware City, the Cape May − Lewes Ferry, Millville Municipal Airport and Cape May Airport.

During 1858, a branch line was built from Lewes to Uckfield, which was also extended to Groombridge and thus to Tunbridge Wells in 1868.