1287 · Winchelsea
A town reshaped by the sea
The Great Storm and the story of two Winchelseas.
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The real Sussex.
Explore the places and events that inspire the fiction. History and imagination meet here, with the distinction made clear.
Medieval · Greyfriars
What the ruins remember
The Franciscan presence in Winchelsea.
Read the history →1928 · Rye Harbour
Seventeen lives remembered
The Mary Stanford lifeboat disaster.
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