[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
[Image: Fragment of the Gough Map]
The Gough Map of Great Britain
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Full record: Lewes
| County | Sussex |
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| Transcript | lewes (original); Lewis (revisor) |
| Icon description | two buildings, spired church with cross, castle |
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| Description | the spire of the church is not coloured red like other spires and has both a red and a black cross (other crosses are in black ink) |
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| Etymology | plural of OE hlǣw, 'mound' |
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| Earlier editors | Lewis (Gough); Lewes appears in different hands as Lewes and Lewis (Parsons) |
| Early Maps | lewis (Angliae Figura) |
| Overwritten | yes |
| Attested spelling | Lewes 1086 DB et passim; Lewis, -ys 1149-53 AC, etc. |
