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Old Winchelsea

Off Rye, East Sussex

A Cinque Port destroyed by storms, and rebuilt on a hill nearby.

Old Winchelsea was an important port on a shingle bank. In the 1200s a series of terrible storms battered it, and the great storm of February 1287 finished it off.

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When
Lost 1287
Where
50.9200, 0.7100
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Visit the 'new' town of Winchelsea, with its medieval gates and church.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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