Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lewes

Lewes, rape and hundred, Sussex - rape, 133,053 ac., pop. 182,733; contains the bor. of Brighton, 11 entire hundreds and parts of 2 others; hundred, 121 ac., pop. 5289.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "rape"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place: Lewes

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