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Lewes Brooks

Lewes Brooks

Highlight • Natural Monument

Lewes Brooks

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Location: Southease, Lewes, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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So Sussex

July 19, 2021

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Lewes Brooks is a Site Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), encompassing 330 hectares of the River Ouse floodplain south of Lewes. Here, flood plains and water-filled ditches are home to rare amphibians, snails, flies, moths and beetles, and this is the only known site for the rare Lewes water beetle. Wet meadows provide nesting sites and feeding stations for a variety of birds. The RSPB carefully manage water levels here to create breeding and wintering habitats for the birds, including the Little Egret, the bird the Egrets Way cycle route from Lewes to Newhaven is named after.

Kirk Bannister

October 20, 2021

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Brilliant path leading out from Southease and to the coast along the river estuary.

ACX

May 4, 2026

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nice view of bridge and river

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Lewes Castle – Egrets Way loop from Southease

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Egrets Way – Lewes Castle loop from Southease

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Location: Southease, Lewes, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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Lewes Brooks

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Firle Beacon summit – Beddingham Hill Highpoint loop from Peacehaven

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Egrets Way – Lewes Castle loop from Southease

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