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Lewes, DE -- U.S. city in Delaware
Population (2000): 2932
Housing Units (2000): 2368
Land area (2000): 3.658319 sq. miles (9.475002 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.630577 sq. miles (1.633188 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.288896 sq. miles (11.108190 sq. km)
FIPS code: 41830
Located within: Delaware (DE), FIPS 10
Location: 38.775939 N, 75.142101 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 19958
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Lewes

Lewes is the county town of the administrative county of East Sussex, in England, and historically of all of Sussex. It is a civil parish and is the centre of the Lewes local government district. The settlement has a history as a bridging point and as a market town, and today as a communications hub and tourist-orientated town. At the 2001 census it had a population of 15,988.

Lewes (disambiguation)

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex in the United Kingdom.

Lewes may also refer to:

Lewes (UK Parliament constituency)

Lewes is a constituency in East Sussex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Maria Caulfield, a Conservative.

Lewes (surname)

Lewes is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Charles Lee Lewes, British actor
  • George Henry Lewes (1817–1878), British philosopher and literary critic
  • Jock Lewes, Australian soldier

Usage examples of "lewes".

He had engaged a young Cambridge man, Gregory Lewes, as his secretary and librarian, and the two devoted all their time to planning, writing, and preparing the monograph referred to.

The boy glanced once at Gregory Lewes and then continued his meal as if he were unaware of any strange presence in the room.

Challis and Lewes were observing the boy intently, but he took not the least notice of their scrutiny.

Henry Challis and Gregory Lewes appeared to have no place in the world of his abstraction.

Challis and Lewes stood on one side and watched him, and he was no more embarrassed by their presence than if they had been in another world, as, possibly, they were.

Between the two protagonists hovered Lewes, sceptical, inclined towards aggression.

Challis preferred, one imagines, to have no intercourse with Lewes while the memory of certain pronouncements was still fresh.

He might have been tempted to discuss that interview, and if, as was practically certain, Lewes attempted to pour contempt on the whole affair, Challis might have been drawn into a defence which would have revived many memories he wished to obliterate.

Presently they came to a pause, and Lewes suggested that he should give some account of how his time had been spent.

That was the personality which had, no doubt, spoken to Challis and Lewes through that long afternoon in the library of Challis Court.

Gloucester insisted that the Mise of Lewes and the Provisions of Oxford had not been properly observed, hinting unmistakably at the foreign birth and extraction of his rival.

Perhaps Squire Hall was the only one in Lewes Hundred who misdoubted that Hiram was half-witted.

Into his hand he put fourteen sovereigns and requested him to go on board the Cambrian and buy Captain Lewes off.

I had to find an art-shop in Lewes and buy special paper and all sorts of pencils and things: sepia and Chinese ink and brushes, special hair and sizes and makes.

Even in the middle of the last century the grist mill, a couple of miles from Lewes, although it was at most but fifty or sixty years old, had all a look of weather-beaten age, for the cypress shingles, of which it was built, ripen in a few years of wind and weather to a silvery, hoary gray, and the white powdering of flour lent it a look as though the dust of ages had settled upon it, making the shadows within dim, soft, mysterious.