London to Lewes Way

Edenbridge is built along the road

The London to Lewes Way is a 71 kilometres (44 mi) long Roman road between Watling Street at Peckham and Lewes in Sussex. The road passes through Beckenham and West Wickham, then crosses the North Downs above Titsey, on the county boundary between Surrey and Kent, and is overlain by Edenbridge High Street.[1][2] The road continues on this alignment onto the high ground of Ashdown Forest, where the more grassy vegetation on the silted up outer ditches contrasts very clearly with surrounding heather in aerial photographs, then descends through Piltdown to Lewes, linking with the Sussex Greensand Way at Barcombe Mills and with a network of roads at Lewes.

  1. ^ Ivan Donald Margary, Roman Ways in the Weald 1965 Phoenix House
  2. ^ Alex Vincent, Roman Roads of Sussex Middleton Press 2000 ISBN 1-901706-48-6