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A selection of standout places across Lewes & the Downs
Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop is an antiquarian and secondhand bookshop at 175 High…
CellarBlack Moon Distillery
Black Moon Distillery is a small gin producer based on the Rich Industrial…
CultureGlyndebourne
Glyndebourne is a country house and opera venue near Glynde, established as a…
WorkshopThe Workshop (Jonathan Swan)
The Workshop is a jewellery workshop and shop at 164 High Street in Lewes, run…
TablePomegranate
Pomegranate is a small independent café on Broad Street in Seaford, serving…
LarderC Walbrin & Sons
C Walbrin & Sons is a traditional butcher's shop at 31 High Street in Seaford,…
Grounds
Gateway Cafe
Peacehaven, ENG
The first of the Papachinos venues, the Gateway Café stands in Centenary Park on Piddinghoe Avenue,…
Molly's Coffee Shop
Rottingdean, Brighton, ENG
Independent beachfront cafe on Undercliff Walk below Rottingdean, fully licensed and open…
Pharmacie Coffee Roasters
Lewes, ENG
Pharmacie is a micro-roastery and espresso bar operating from a unit on the Cliffe Industrial…
Sea Spray
Rottingdean, Brighton, ENG
Independent cafe on Rottingdean High Street, close to the seafront, serving coffee, breakfasts and…
Tigermoth Coffee Roasters
Lewes, ENG
Joe Smith roasts coffee at Tigermoth from a loft on Daveys Lane, having trained at a specialty…
Table
Flint Owl Bakery
Lewes, ENG
David Bland has been Flint Owl's only director since he incorporated it in 2012, baking from the…
Limetree Kitchen
Lewes, ENG
Limetree Kitchen occupies 14 Station Street in Lewes, close to the railway station, serving small…
No. 34
Lewes, ENG
No. 34 is a wine bar and bistro on Lewes High Street, opened in 2024 by restaurant consultant Hugo…
Pomegranate
Seaford, ENG
Pomegranate is a small independent café on Broad Street in Seaford, serving breakfast, brunch,…
Ros Thai
Brighton, ENG
A Thai restaurant and takeaway at 30 High Street, Rottingdean. The menu runs from hor's d'oeuvres —…
The Green Welly Café
Ditchling, ENG
A café in a converted village-centre building with a walled courtyard garden, serving home-cooked…
Larder
C Walbrin & Sons
Seaford, ENG
C Walbrin & Sons is a traditional butcher's shop at 31 High Street in Seaford, occupying the ground…
Cheese Please
Lewes, ENG
Cheese Please is a cheesemonger on Lewes High Street run by Fran, stocking artisan British and…
Devesons
Rottingdean, ENG
Devesons is a family-run greengrocer and produce store at 60 High Street in Rottingdean village,…
Downsview Farm
Ringmer, ENG
A working dairy farm on Laughton Road producing ice cream on site from milk drawn from its own herd…
Flint Owl Bakery
Lewes, ENG
David Bland has been Flint Owl's only director since he incorporated it in 2012, baking from the…
Frank Richards & Sons
Lewes, ENG
Francis Henry Richards opened his butcher's shop on the first day of 1934, and his grandson Peter…
Middle Farm
Firle, ENG
Middle Farm sits on the A27 at West Firle, run by the Pile family's company John S Pile (Farms) Ltd…
Turners Traditional Farm Butchers
Ringmer, ENG
Turners Traditional Farm Butchers operates from Highfield Farm in Ringmer, where the Turner family…
Yorwarth Fresh Fish
Seaford, ENG
Yorwarth Fresh Fish is a fishmonger and smokehouse at 6 Dane Road in Seaford, run by a family that…
Culture
Anne of Cleves' House
Lewes, ENG
A timber-framed medieval house on Southover High Street, Lewes, dating from the 15th century. It…
Chalk Gallery
Lewes, ENG
Chalk is an artist-run cooperative gallery in Lewes, established in 2005 by a group of local…
Charleston
Firle, ENG
Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved into Charleston, a farmhouse below Firle Beacon, in 1916 and…
Depot
Lewes, ENG
Depot opened on Pinwell Road in Lewes in May 2017, built on a site that had previously served as a…
Diane Hutt Gallery
Uckfield, ENG
Independent gallery on Uckfield High Street in East Sussex, trading since 1999. Stock covers…
Farleys Barn Gallery
Golden Cross, ENG
Lee Miller and Roland Penrose moved to Farleys, at Muddles Green near Chiddingly in the Sussex…
Glyndebourne
Glynde, ENG
Glyndebourne is a country house and opera venue near Glynde, established as a festival by John…
Henry Paddon Contemporary Art
Eastbourne, unparished area, ENG
A contemporary art and craft gallery at 113 South Street, Eastbourne, trading as Henry Paddon…
The Tom Paine Printing Press & Press Gallery
Lewes, ENG
Peter Chasseaud's working 18th-century-style wooden Common Press, operational since July 2009 and…
Towner Art Gallery
Eastbourne, ENG
Towner Eastbourne sits at Devonshire Park on College Road, combining exhibitions, a collection and…
Workshop
Gillshaw Pottery
Barcombe, ENG
Gillshaw Pottery is a ceramics studio at Bow Cottage on Church Road in Barcombe, run by Sophie and…
Klayskool
Ditchling, ENG
Klayskool is a pottery studio on the Ditchling Common industrial estate, just outside Hassocks,…
Maker Studio
Eastbourne, ENG
A craft shop and workshop space run by makers, teaching hands-on sessions in crochet, knitting,…
The Ugly Barn
Ditchling, ENG
Marija Bichan set up The Ugly Barn in Ditchling in 2019, the year her mentor Ralph Levy, who ran…
The Workshop (Jonathan Swan)
Lewes, ENG
The Workshop is a jewellery workshop and shop at 164 High Street in Lewes, run by goldsmith…
Counter
Bow Windows Bookshop
Lewes, ENG
Bow Windows Bookshop is an antiquarian and secondhand bookshop at 175 High Street in Lewes, trading…
Camilla's Bookshop
Eastbourne, ENG
Camilla Francombe and Stuart Broad opened their first shop in Brighton in 1976 and the Eastbourne…
From Victoria
Lewes, ENG
Victoria Turner opened From Victoria on Lewes High Street in 2013, filling the shop with house…
Goldcliff Garden Centre
Ringmer, ENG
Goldcliff Garden Centre sits on the Uckfield Road just outside Ringmer, run by the same family for…
Much Ado Books
Alfriston, ENG
Cate Olson and Nash Robbins ran a bookshop in Marblehead, Massachusetts for twenty years, then…
Not Just A Record Shop
Eastbourne, ENG
An independent secondhand and new record shop on Seaside stocking vinyl LPs and 45s, CDs, DVDs and…
The Fifteenth Century Bookshop
Lewes, ENG
The building came first by five centuries: a timber-framed, overhung corner house at the top of…
Union Music Store
Lewes, ENG
Union Music Store is a record shop on Lansdown Place in Lewes, dealing in new and second-hand…
Wynne's Home & Garden Centre
Seaford, ENG
An independent garden centre on Sutton Drove stocking bedding plants, shrubs and perennials sourced…
Cellar
Artelium Wine Estate
Hassocks, ENG
Artelium Wine Estate makes still and sparkling vintage wines from grapes grown across the Sussex…
Beak Brewery
Lewes, ENG
Daniel Tapper founded Beak Brewery in 2020 after several years spent brewing recipes on borrowed…
Black Moon Distillery
Newhaven, ENG
Black Moon Distillery is a small gin producer based on the Rich Industrial Estate on Avis Way in…
Burning Sky Brewery
Firle, ENG
A farmhouse brewery in the village of Firle, in the foothills of the South Downs, working out of…
Ditchling Spirits
Ditchling, ENG
Ditchling Spirits distils Ditchling Gin and a toffee vodka called Ditchling Fling from a…
Hidden Spring Vineyard
Horam, ENG
Hidden Spring makes English still and sparkling wine on Vines Cross Road at Horam, near Heathfield…
Middle Farm
Firle, ENG
Middle Farm sits on the A27 at West Firle, run by the Pile family's company John S Pile (Farms) Ltd…
Middle Farm Cider Barn
Firle, ENG
Part of Middle Farm at West Firle, near Lewes, the Cider Barn holds the National Collection of…
Old Tree Brewery
Glynde, ENG
Old Tree Brewery is a Community Interest Company working from Unit 2, The Old Dairy, Lacys Hill,…
Rathfinny Wine Estate Cellar Door Shop
Alfriston, ENG
A single-estate vineyard in the Cradle Valley producing traditional-method sparkling wine and still…
Snug
Six Bells Alfriston
Alfriston, ENG
A traditional Alfriston free house on the High Street with a garden opening onto the village green…
The Anchor Inn
Ringmer, ENG
The Anchor Inn is a family-run free house dating from 1742, standing opposite the village green in…
The Cock Inn
Ringmer, ENG
The Cock Inn sits on Old Uckfield Road at Ringmer, East Sussex, described on its own site as a 16th…
The Trevor Arms
Glynde, ENG
Built in 1865 by John Harvey for the arrival of the railway at Glynde, the Trevor Arms takes its…
Rest
Alexandra Hotel
Eastbourne, ENG
A seafront hotel on King Edward's Parade in Eastbourne, described by its operators as newly…
Belle Tout Lighthouse
Eastbourne, ENG
Belle Tout Lighthouse stands on the cliffs of Beachy Head, outside Eastbourne. Built in 1832, it…
Ebor Lodge
Eastbourne, ENG
A bed and breakfast on Royal Parade, on Eastbourne's promenade, roughly a twelve-minute walk from…
Riverdale House Guest House
Alfriston, ENG
A family-run bed and breakfast on the edge of Alfriston with views over the Cuckmere Valley and…
Saltmarsh Farmhouse
Exceat, ENG
Saltmarsh Farmhouse occupies a Grade 2 listed, 16th-century farmhouse in the Seven Sisters Country…
The Star, Alfriston
Alfriston, ENG
The Star began in 1345 as a religious hostel for monks and pilgrims travelling to Chichester…
White Lodge
Lewes, ENG
White Lodge is a three-room bed and breakfast run by Ann and Martin from their home outside…
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