> It's been stuck in one of our houses for 200 years.
[Someone took it out last year...it ended up being found a few days later.](https://www.capegazette.com/article/bombshell-report-lewes-cannonball-found/254412)
Yeah it’s inside the house now, upstairs in the museum. A fake one has been placed in the foundation. The real cannonball actually went entirely through the house and into the basement cellar.
Lewes, Delaware is sometimes called the first town of the first state because it was settled fairly early on in American history by the Swedish! In around the 1630s it was a whaling and trading post.
It’s currently a quaint beach town/vacation town that is known for its state park, beautiful flower festival, and restaurants. And it has nice walking and biking trails all around. It’s becoming increasingly popular and expensive because all of the out of town rich people have discovered its quaintness.
Flower festivals against Bonfire festivals where we burn effigies of politicians and popular figures 😂
Nice to see it's such an old town as our town has very deep history, we're the county town of East Sussex!
That last sentence btw we have the EXACT same issue, we call them DFLs (Down from Londoners)
You’ll see up and down the east coast of the US that the settlers from England were not very original or creative with place names. For instance, Delaware’s capital city, Dover, is in Kent County.
And our northern county is New Castle county (somehow we added a space in the Newcastle) with main cities of Newark and Wilmington. Settlers were very lazy with naming lol
I had forgotten they were down to one date a year. I never followed NASCAR super close, just made sure to avoid North Dover when it was in town since things got so hectic.
In that case you must come visit. We have a great NASCAR track near Lewes in Dover. I built a pub in my garage down the road from the track. We will drink a few and walk to the race. Delaware welcomes you.
There are a few Brit expats in Lewes. One of them owned a British and international gift shop for a number of years before retirement (the shop's still open).
Outstanding. Welcome to the Delaware family. At the door, make sure you pick up your gift bag of scrapple, UDairy ice cream, and bitching about out of state drivers / Route 1 traffic. You’ll love it here.
I went to school in central PA … it took me so long to realize what people were saying when they told me they vacationed in “Loos, Delaware” … I just smiled and nodded every time thinking they might be making up some random town, until I realized that they were trying to say “Loo-is”
This is what's happening in our town today, there's also a Tractor parade happening, we're so weird
https://preview.redd.it/xugb2k1ziorc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e346389e11896a9e01b5528d01b16110a5031185
[https://x.com/HUTCTV/status/1774393537930338452?s=20](https://x.com/HUTCTV/status/1774393537930338452?s=20)
I'm a Brit from West Sussex rather than East and now live in Sussex County Delaware. Lewes here is right on the coast and the old town is small and old feeling, just like Lewes there. The outskirts however are turning into one housing development after another that are spoiling the character of the area. Thankfully I live further out in the countryside but I do work in Lewes so I still have to deal with the traffic there and the 35 minute drive to work.
We actually have a summer here. I mean, in the 14 years I've been here I have never had to wonder to myself in feb/mar what kind of summer we are going to have lol Here in Delaware we are at approximately the latitude of the middle of Spain so much further south than the UK and the weather reflects that. Mild winters and hot humid summers. I don't think I could cope without central air conditioning!!!
We actually get a lot of Brits visiting the area as around Lewes there lots of wetlands that provide nesting and feeding grounds for a lot of birds so the twitchers love it here.
Lots of farmland and woodlands around this part of the state even with all the house building that's going on. This part of the state is very flat so nothing like the South Downs near here. Ya gotta leave Sussex if you want to find a hill lol
There is a "British" Pub in lewes... It is not very British lol
There is a Fish and Chip restaurant here that has Brit in the name... It is also not very British no matter how many picture of the Queen and phone boxes and London buses they put up.
Even though I will be in the UK next week to visit the fam, I will be counting the days til I can come home to this Sussex County. I personally love it here and do NOT miss the miserable weather there.
Our weather is decent compared to most of the UK 😂 yeah we have I believe it's 17 pubs and it used to be a lot more! Our chippys are quite nice, Battered Sausage and chips 👌👌
Oh yeah the hills are the biggest thing in Lewes it's crazy to get anywhere you are going up some steep hills 😂😅
Yeah that housing stuff is similar here, after decades of not allowing them, we finally have some fast food chains here in dominos and subway
Yeah the weather there isn't bad as far as the UK goes but trust me, it's shitty lol I just checked the forecast for my home town which is 20ish miles west of you and right on the coast and it's rain or showers solid for the next 10 days lol FML why am I going to the UK in April???
But it's right near Cape May-Lewes Ferry and Cape Henlopen in the state park beach which does intersect with the Atlantic Ocean. I saw a juvenile Humpback Whale one summer breaching out of the ocean! What a sight!
Oh that's pretty cool I know there's a Birmingham in Alabama and I support Birmingham City so that was funny to me too, think America has all British towns somewhere
u/swannyhypno \- not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but Lewes is home to one of the campuses of the University of Delaware. In particular they house the College of Earth and Ocean Sciences and as a result they maintain a fleet of ships (including I believe a submarine?)
They do tours if you ever end up crossing the pond to check them out
Chris Godwin, Wide Receiver for Tampa Bay Buccaneers went to highschool in Middletown, DE. He played college ball at Penn State, though.
Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens played at University of Delaware! Easily UD’s most accomplished NFL player.
Coming from a Ravens fan I’m glad you got a taste of Elite Joe lol. Felt wrong, though.
Northern Delaware is definitely Philadelphia Eagles territory but as you move south toward Maryland you definitely get your fair share of Ravens and Washington fans.
Troy Reeder is from Hockessin, went to Penn State, but then transferred to and graduated from UD and played football for UD before getting drafted into the NFL … currently on the Chargers
Lewes was the first European settlement in Delaware. It was founded June 3rd 1631 by Dutch settlers. It was called Zwaanendael, Swan Valley. Tribe of local Indians, the Lenape, killed all 32 settlers in 1632.
When I was a kid, back in the late 60s and early 70s, my family had a place in Lewes where we would spend the summers. How do you pronounce your Lewes? In Delaware, it's pronounced as Louis, not Lou's.
We have a couple name places here that have unusual pronunciation. We have a town named Houston. But, it's not pronounced like Houston, in Texas, it's pronounced house- ton. We have a street named Loockerman, but pronounced as Locker man. And we have a town called Hockessin, but it's pronounced Ho kessin.
First town in the first state! Its got a quiet little family beach with some small waves and an ice cream shop.
There's also cape henlopen state park which is like a huge protected wildlife area that goes from the Atlantic Ocean into the woods... its got disc golf, bike trails, beaches, old bunkers and watchtowers.
There's the ferry that goes to New Jersey and a ton of multi million dollar homes over there.
Downtown lewes is a historic area and everything is brick and super old and tight, its got a house with a cannonball embedded in it from the British cannons blasting the town during the revolution.
The school there has an incredible playground that we used go beg our parents to drive us to on the weekends.
Theres a ocean research center for the university with a massive windmill.
Cant forget a great dairy farm too!
Lewes Sussex England Day was on May 13, 2014. There was a celebration of the 750th Anniversary of the Battle of Lewes. They held a two weeklong celebration with a special choral performance on May 13th of a musical score “The Sword of Freedom” written by Helen Glavin in honor of this celebration. The City of Lewes Delaware joined in on May 13th at 2:30pm with a performance of a very small portion of this score.
Wait until you hear about Dover, Wilmington (the one in the UK county of Kent was the childhood home of Mick Jagger), Kent County, Sussex County, Newcastle County…
There is a ferry that goes from Lewes to Cape May, NJ. Very popular to use and a pretty cool trip back and forth. You’ll occasionally see dolphins following the ferry.
There’s quite a lot of them in Lewes! I’d say it’s pretty common to see bottlenose dolphins on the ferry, or even if you’re just at the beach. You can sometimes spot seals from the ferry as well.
Oh dude if you read up on names of city’s and towns in the USA (especially on the east coast in the older states) you’ll realize how many of the names were just taken from England and surrounding countries lmao 😂
Oh haha, when I said cousin I was just referring to nearby geography. That whole region of the US has beach towns from New Jersey south through the Carolina’s, and they all have different character. Some are stodgy older places full of antique stores, some are relaxed family places, some have loud music and drunk college kids starting fights, and one (Atlantic City) is a rough, impoverished neighborhood. Lewes is one of the more relaxed areas, nearby comparatively posh Rehoboth beach and comparatively loud ocean city.
Ah I see, it does sound rather beautiful, I'm quite close to the beach too as we're right next to the South Coast and Brighton
Sounds a really nice retirement town tbh
It is a retirement town for sure. That’s the problem for most natives, though. So many housing complexes going up to help facilitate the retirees moving from surrounding states to retire.
I’m not a native but I moved to Lewes 5 years ago and just bought a house further north up-state. I totally understand why people *from* Lewes are frustrated. In the 5 years I lived there I could see huge changes in traffic and tons of land being cleared for houses. I can’t imagine what it is like for someone who spent their lives there to watch their town get so overpopulated and commercialized.
Haha sounds like our towns have more in common than I thought as the same thing happens here, we're bigger according to population but it's getting crazy now
Our council for example banned fast food brands for decades and now we have 2 haha
Oh you guys are having a rough time of this year, hope you can hang on. I'm Leeds lol. My younger brother has been to the Brighton stadium a few times, he's Bournemouth.
Here's some car pics I've taken in and around Lewes to give you an idea what it looks like on the outskirts...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/194395412@N08/albums/with/72177720304673988
We have a British car club in town and there's a big car culture here.
Ooooh the Viper and the Mustang 🔥 I'm a car guy too! Dream car is a Lexus LFA, realistic dream car is a Lotus Exige! Yeah Birmingham are absolute dogshit rn it's very annoying especially with the new owners being good
Car club sounds like my kinda evening just chilling chatting about old cars
I live in "our" Lewes now and have been by your Lewes about 18 months ago when I was on a trip in England. Unfortunately did not stop although the next time I come to England I intend to. Did get to see the castle from the highway as we went by.
As a soccer fan I have a soft-ish spot for Lewes FC as well and hope for an eventual promotion out of the Isthmian League.
There is actually a little bit of a relationship between the two cities. Here’s an article of the two mayors talking during COVID https://www.capegazette.com/node/213795/1000
During the Revolutionary War, the British came up the Bay to invade. It was very foggy. The townspeople lined up holding cornstalks as if they were muskets. The British thought the defenseless town had a formidable force and turned back.
It’s a wealthy beach resort town, also the oldest town in the state of Delaware. Lots of new retirees and new development in the surrounding area. It has a very well maintained historic district as well
Lewes in Delaware is named after your Lewes! William Penn named it after his wife’s hometown of Lewes, Sussex, England. Soon after my family and I moved to Lewes, DE (we’re British and American) we visited Lewes, England while in the UK visiting family. There’s a puzzle and gourmet food store in Lewes that sells quite a few British goods as the owners are British.
Good to see people visiting our town, just spent today watching Lewes FC play haha, that's a very cool fact though and it makes sense it's named after my Lewes
Yay, sister towns! I live on the opposite end of the state, so can't say much about it, but that's neat. :)
Me, I'm in New Castle County and England of course also has a Newcastle. Related names aren't uncommon, and more often not a coincidence, on the Eastern half of the U.S.
Lewes has a great little downtown with some good restaurants, antique shops, and a killer toy store - and beer/liquor store. There is a ferry that connects the southern most point in New Jersey (Cape May) to Lewes via the Delaware Bay, which is a fun little day trip for us NJ folks. Would love to be successful enough to one day retire there!
I just learned at our local history museum that we are the only two places called Lewes in the world... Apparently Canada used to have a Lewes river or something like that but they changed the name so we're the last two standing.
Also.come visit. 🙂 It's a nice place in a lot of ways that "Lewes I" appears to be nice so I've always thought we should have some kind of informal exchange program.
I read in here somewhere the UK Lewes is hilly. The Delaware Lewes is flat as a board. Lewes is located in the Atlantic Coastal Plain physiographic region, about 75-80 miles south/east of the Appalachian Piedmont physiographic region. Many early European settlements were located on the fall line between the two regions, where water mills could be constructed. Lewes rests on top of about 10,000 feet of sand that has eroded out of the Appalachian mountains over the past 200 million years or so - back when Africa began to separate from North America and Pangaea broke apart. The land consists of a lot of brackish inland waterways and tidal marshes.
There's a little shop in Lewes where one can stock up on British grocery items. Don't remember the name but it's right as you cross the drawbridge. We always go to the puzzle/bookstore in the same building and usually wander into the British section.
The man who started the American revolution was from Lewis England and named Lewis Delaware and Sussex County. There’s a plaque in a hotel in Lewis, England that explains it all. I am from Lewis Delaware, but lived in Brighton for years.
The British Navy bombarded our Lewes, DE from April 6th to 7th for 22 hours…….so thanks….lol
Lewes on Lewes violence smh I can only apologize haha
Come retrieve your cannon ball. It's been stuck in one of our houses for 200 years.
I'll go find the owner of Lewes Castle he can do it for me
> It's been stuck in one of our houses for 200 years. [Someone took it out last year...it ended up being found a few days later.](https://www.capegazette.com/article/bombshell-report-lewes-cannonball-found/254412)
Yeah it’s inside the house now, upstairs in the museum. A fake one has been placed in the foundation. The real cannonball actually went entirely through the house and into the basement cellar.
Infeel yea
If I’m not mistaken, they didn’t get anybody but a goat…so they owe us a goat.
Do you realize what compound interest for 200+ years is on a goat? We’re rich!!
200 goats?
I think it’s more like 8 trillion USD, maybe 12. Cashiers check is fine
We only have 17k people we can't do it
Pretty sure it was a pig, but I'll double-check on that.
What year
During the War of 1812….I believe the actual bombardment was in 1813…..
Probably mad bc of the way we pronounce it 🤣
It's the same
Lewes, Delaware is sometimes called the first town of the first state because it was settled fairly early on in American history by the Swedish! In around the 1630s it was a whaling and trading post. It’s currently a quaint beach town/vacation town that is known for its state park, beautiful flower festival, and restaurants. And it has nice walking and biking trails all around. It’s becoming increasingly popular and expensive because all of the out of town rich people have discovered its quaintness.
Flower festivals against Bonfire festivals where we burn effigies of politicians and popular figures 😂 Nice to see it's such an old town as our town has very deep history, we're the county town of East Sussex! That last sentence btw we have the EXACT same issue, we call them DFLs (Down from Londoners)
It’s funny because the part of Delaware that Lewes is in is called Sussex County.
Can't be a coincidence
You’ll see up and down the east coast of the US that the settlers from England were not very original or creative with place names. For instance, Delaware’s capital city, Dover, is in Kent County.
Well we also have Dover too it's our biggest ferry port
Yeah your Dover is much nicer than Dover, Delaware lol
And our northern county is New Castle county (somehow we added a space in the Newcastle) with main cities of Newark and Wilmington. Settlers were very lazy with naming lol
We have ferries too!
And Lewes is Delaware’s biggest ferry port! https://www.cmlf.com/
Lol our most populated county in Delaware is New Castle. There is a TON of Delaware areas named after English places.
You should plan a trip!
I am far too skint my man, if I go to America it's to see the Browns play or maybe a NASCAR race
NASCAR comes to Dover, DE a couple of times a year, so you could always see the races and then pop down to Lewes 👀
Pretty sure they lost one of the race dates a couple of years back
Yeah it is down to one and if I had an empty chequebook I definitely would do that it would be fun
I sincerely hope one day you can make it and that you find our Lewes as lovely as yours is.
Oh I'm sure it is
I had forgotten they were down to one date a year. I never followed NASCAR super close, just made sure to avoid North Dover when it was in town since things got so hectic.
In that case you must come visit. We have a great NASCAR track near Lewes in Dover. I built a pub in my garage down the road from the track. We will drink a few and walk to the race. Delaware welcomes you.
Oh I know about Dover speedway I love short tracks, sounds like a fun time
Browns?? Ouch. Go steelers!
They went 0-16 in 2018 I had to follow them
My god man, you have the exact temperament to be a Delawarian! Get a visa and come on down!
I'd love too in the future, seems calmer than most of America
Fun fact, when it was originally settled, the name of the town was Zwaanendael.
And don’t forget the original name horeskill
Oh my god. I have a british friend who lives in Lewes, DE.
Are they from Lewes, England? 😂😂 That's a fun coincidence though
Nah, they never mentioned where they were from but he always referred to it as "a tiny village a few hours from London"
Yeah that could be anything 😂 sounds too far away from London to be Lewes tho lol
There are a few Brit expats in Lewes. One of them owned a British and international gift shop for a number of years before retirement (the shop's still open).
And the new owner is British as well!
We're everywhere!
We pronounce Lewes as Louis like Loo-is. Not pronounced lose.
Same here man, we hate it when someone says Loos
Outstanding. Welcome to the Delaware family. At the door, make sure you pick up your gift bag of scrapple, UDairy ice cream, and bitching about out of state drivers / Route 1 traffic. You’ll love it here.
Oooh some Scrapple it sounds like I might
It’s how we recognize the visitors. That and an insufferable attitude of self-entitlement.
Same here lmao
I went to school in central PA … it took me so long to realize what people were saying when they told me they vacationed in “Loos, Delaware” … I just smiled and nodded every time thinking they might be making up some random town, until I realized that they were trying to say “Loo-is”
That's great!
This is what's happening in our town today, there's also a Tractor parade happening, we're so weird https://preview.redd.it/xugb2k1ziorc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e346389e11896a9e01b5528d01b16110a5031185 [https://x.com/HUTCTV/status/1774393537930338452?s=20](https://x.com/HUTCTV/status/1774393537930338452?s=20)
I'm a Brit from West Sussex rather than East and now live in Sussex County Delaware. Lewes here is right on the coast and the old town is small and old feeling, just like Lewes there. The outskirts however are turning into one housing development after another that are spoiling the character of the area. Thankfully I live further out in the countryside but I do work in Lewes so I still have to deal with the traffic there and the 35 minute drive to work. We actually have a summer here. I mean, in the 14 years I've been here I have never had to wonder to myself in feb/mar what kind of summer we are going to have lol Here in Delaware we are at approximately the latitude of the middle of Spain so much further south than the UK and the weather reflects that. Mild winters and hot humid summers. I don't think I could cope without central air conditioning!!! We actually get a lot of Brits visiting the area as around Lewes there lots of wetlands that provide nesting and feeding grounds for a lot of birds so the twitchers love it here. Lots of farmland and woodlands around this part of the state even with all the house building that's going on. This part of the state is very flat so nothing like the South Downs near here. Ya gotta leave Sussex if you want to find a hill lol There is a "British" Pub in lewes... It is not very British lol There is a Fish and Chip restaurant here that has Brit in the name... It is also not very British no matter how many picture of the Queen and phone boxes and London buses they put up. Even though I will be in the UK next week to visit the fam, I will be counting the days til I can come home to this Sussex County. I personally love it here and do NOT miss the miserable weather there.
Our weather is decent compared to most of the UK 😂 yeah we have I believe it's 17 pubs and it used to be a lot more! Our chippys are quite nice, Battered Sausage and chips 👌👌 Oh yeah the hills are the biggest thing in Lewes it's crazy to get anywhere you are going up some steep hills 😂😅 Yeah that housing stuff is similar here, after decades of not allowing them, we finally have some fast food chains here in dominos and subway
Yeah the weather there isn't bad as far as the UK goes but trust me, it's shitty lol I just checked the forecast for my home town which is 20ish miles west of you and right on the coast and it's rain or showers solid for the next 10 days lol FML why am I going to the UK in April???
Yeah we're getting a lot of rain but it is nice here, if I had money I'd visit America to go to a NASCAR race or a a Browns game haha
It has coastline on the Delaware bay. It is NOT on the east coast.
But it's right near Cape May-Lewes Ferry and Cape Henlopen in the state park beach which does intersect with the Atlantic Ocean. I saw a juvenile Humpback Whale one summer breaching out of the ocean! What a sight!
Likely a right or fin whale. I wouldn't expect bay dwellers to know that though.
It was definitely a Juvenile Humpback Whale breaching up out of the water. Had it confirmed by UD Marine Research Laboratory.
Very odd. Only humpback story I remember from Lewws is the one that washed up dead. Fitting, as that is where humans go to die too.
Horseshoes and hand grenades
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Cape henlopen is not yours alone. It is closer to Rehoboth than Lewws anyway.
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The fact that Lewwsers take an attitude of ownership towards a state park.
Also I didn't know Dover speedway was in Delaware that's pretty cool
We also have a Newcastle up north and the downtown is called “old Newcastle” But if a Brit visits it’d be “not really new Newcastle”
Oh that's pretty cool I know there's a Birmingham in Alabama and I support Birmingham City so that was funny to me too, think America has all British towns somewhere
We definitely do, there’s tons of town named after British places in every state.
Yeah I like it haha
A lot of the British place names came over with settlers to America. Or were appointed by the Crown back in Colonial time.
But unlike the UK, here it’s two words: New Castle.
New Castle is two words in Delaware too. Not sure why op spelled it all together.
u/swannyhypno \- not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, but Lewes is home to one of the campuses of the University of Delaware. In particular they house the College of Earth and Ocean Sciences and as a result they maintain a fleet of ships (including I believe a submarine?) They do tours if you ever end up crossing the pond to check them out
Oh that's kinda cool, have their been any good NFL/NBA players come from there? I'm too skint to go anywhere but we can hope in the future
Chris Godwin, Wide Receiver for Tampa Bay Buccaneers went to highschool in Middletown, DE. He played college ball at Penn State, though. Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco of the Baltimore Ravens played at University of Delaware! Easily UD’s most accomplished NFL player.
JOE ELITE FLACCO?! MY FUCKING GOAT I'm a browns fan lol
Coming from a Ravens fan I’m glad you got a taste of Elite Joe lol. Felt wrong, though. Northern Delaware is definitely Philadelphia Eagles territory but as you move south toward Maryland you definitely get your fair share of Ravens and Washington fans.
Did feel a bit odd 😂 Maryland should be all Ravens fans right? I guess they're a new franchise tbf
I know at least a handful of Steelers fans that live in New Castle County. One of their players attended Mount Pleasant High.
To be fair there are a handful of Steelers fans everywhere. They’re the worst like that.
Troy Reeder is from Hockessin, went to Penn State, but then transferred to and graduated from UD and played football for UD before getting drafted into the NFL … currently on the Chargers
There are 3 active NBA players from Delaware: * Donte DiVincenzo * Jalen Duren (who was born in DE, grew up in Philadelphia) * Bones Hyland
Randy White is from Wilmington and played HS football at McKean. He was a Dallas Cowboy but deserves mention. Go Iggles!!
Lewes was the first European settlement in Delaware. It was founded June 3rd 1631 by Dutch settlers. It was called Zwaanendael, Swan Valley. Tribe of local Indians, the Lenape, killed all 32 settlers in 1632.
Oh damn my last name is Swann and it was called Swan Valley, the coincidences here are crazy to me personally lmao, Lewes always been historic
That's pretty cool. If you want to read more about Lewes, Delaware, there is a Wikipedia page for it.
Yeah was reading it, population was lower than I thought
When I was a kid, back in the late 60s and early 70s, my family had a place in Lewes where we would spend the summers. How do you pronounce your Lewes? In Delaware, it's pronounced as Louis, not Lou's.
We pronounce it the same!
We have a couple name places here that have unusual pronunciation. We have a town named Houston. But, it's not pronounced like Houston, in Texas, it's pronounced house- ton. We have a street named Loockerman, but pronounced as Locker man. And we have a town called Hockessin, but it's pronounced Ho kessin.
Or https://www.historiclewes.org/history/timeline.html
That's pretty cool!! Thanks for that! It's more than I knew!
First town in the first state! Its got a quiet little family beach with some small waves and an ice cream shop. There's also cape henlopen state park which is like a huge protected wildlife area that goes from the Atlantic Ocean into the woods... its got disc golf, bike trails, beaches, old bunkers and watchtowers. There's the ferry that goes to New Jersey and a ton of multi million dollar homes over there. Downtown lewes is a historic area and everything is brick and super old and tight, its got a house with a cannonball embedded in it from the British cannons blasting the town during the revolution. The school there has an incredible playground that we used go beg our parents to drive us to on the weekends. Theres a ocean research center for the university with a massive windmill. Cant forget a great dairy farm too!
Disc golf I love watching on YouTube, playing it on Wii sports resort too! This Lewes sounds more similar to ours than I expected
I was waiting for someone to mention the ferry 😀 ⛴️
Kings ice cream!
Lewes Sussex England Day was on May 13, 2014. There was a celebration of the 750th Anniversary of the Battle of Lewes. They held a two weeklong celebration with a special choral performance on May 13th of a musical score “The Sword of Freedom” written by Helen Glavin in honor of this celebration. The City of Lewes Delaware joined in on May 13th at 2:30pm with a performance of a very small portion of this score.
Oh I don't remember that but I would've been in town for it! We do a lot of singing in this town lmao but nice that Delaware Lewes notices us!
Just wanted to say that I love this post. It’s great to see such a friendly curiosity about it and to hear of all these similarities!
Thank you man, I was worried it wouldn't go over well but it seemed to catch people's eyes! So many similarities
Our Lewes is also one of the most expensive places to live (in Delaware.)
Oh damn, both posh towns then
Wait until you hear about Dover, Wilmington (the one in the UK county of Kent was the childhood home of Mick Jagger), Kent County, Sussex County, Newcastle County…
I only knew Dover because of NASCAR lol
And the one in Delaware was once home to Bob Marley.
*New Castle
Wey aye, bonnie lad.
There is a ferry that goes from Lewes to Cape May, NJ. Very popular to use and a pretty cool trip back and forth. You’ll occasionally see dolphins following the ferry.
Dolphins near Lewes huh wikdn
There’s quite a lot of them in Lewes! I’d say it’s pretty common to see bottlenose dolphins on the ferry, or even if you’re just at the beach. You can sometimes spot seals from the ferry as well.
Bit more exotic than Brighton beach lol
I love this post so much
I hoped it would go over well lol
Oh dude if you read up on names of city’s and towns in the USA (especially on the east coast in the older states) you’ll realize how many of the names were just taken from England and surrounding countries lmao 😂
Oh yeah I know that I've seen so many I just didn't know Lewes had one haha
You get bonus points for Lewes I’d say because it’s a nice beach town over here, so you avoided the 90% chance if it being somewhere boring hahaha
Thank god! We're not boring either, incredibly historic town with 12tj century ruins
That’s probably a little better than ours… but you can get seashells and go out for some seafood and cocktails, so basically the same thing!
It’s near a lovely beach area and is the quiet cousin of Ocean City Maryland, which is an irredeemably gross party town in the summer.
Oh our Lewes has twin towns too in Germany and France! (waldschut and Blois respectively) That's pretty fun
Oh haha, when I said cousin I was just referring to nearby geography. That whole region of the US has beach towns from New Jersey south through the Carolina’s, and they all have different character. Some are stodgy older places full of antique stores, some are relaxed family places, some have loud music and drunk college kids starting fights, and one (Atlantic City) is a rough, impoverished neighborhood. Lewes is one of the more relaxed areas, nearby comparatively posh Rehoboth beach and comparatively loud ocean city.
Ah I see, it does sound rather beautiful, I'm quite close to the beach too as we're right next to the South Coast and Brighton Sounds a really nice retirement town tbh
It is a retirement town for sure. That’s the problem for most natives, though. So many housing complexes going up to help facilitate the retirees moving from surrounding states to retire. I’m not a native but I moved to Lewes 5 years ago and just bought a house further north up-state. I totally understand why people *from* Lewes are frustrated. In the 5 years I lived there I could see huge changes in traffic and tons of land being cleared for houses. I can’t imagine what it is like for someone who spent their lives there to watch their town get so overpopulated and commercialized.
Haha sounds like our towns have more in common than I thought as the same thing happens here, we're bigger according to population but it's getting crazy now Our council for example banned fast food brands for decades and now we have 2 haha
I feel like Ocean City, MD is probably like Bognor Regis. I've never been, but I've seen pictures.
What is a twin town? Curious...
https://lewes-tc.gov.uk/mayors-news/lewes-friendship-with-french-and-german-twinned-towns-continues/ This explains it better than I can
Thanks!
Unrelated, but talking about twins and other countries we have a twin politician with Germany. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68255354
That is an unfortunate surname 😂 but that's cool I have to say
Your Seagulls are giving Liverpool a good run this morning.
I am a Birmingham City fan but I do work at the Brighton home matches! It's been fun seeing the happiness of their fans, they're playing well
Oh you guys are having a rough time of this year, hope you can hang on. I'm Leeds lol. My younger brother has been to the Brighton stadium a few times, he's Bournemouth. Here's some car pics I've taken in and around Lewes to give you an idea what it looks like on the outskirts... https://www.flickr.com/photos/194395412@N08/albums/with/72177720304673988 We have a British car club in town and there's a big car culture here.
Ooooh the Viper and the Mustang 🔥 I'm a car guy too! Dream car is a Lexus LFA, realistic dream car is a Lotus Exige! Yeah Birmingham are absolute dogshit rn it's very annoying especially with the new owners being good Car club sounds like my kinda evening just chilling chatting about old cars
Lewes DE has a New Year's Eve 'drop'. An anchor!
Haha sounds fun, we don't do much bar a little party in the town centre
I absolutely adore this entire post.
Hehe thanks man, was a random idea lol
Lewes is about 8 miles away from Rehoboth, the preferred beach of Biden.
Oh yeah Biden is from Delaware
I live in "our" Lewes now and have been by your Lewes about 18 months ago when I was on a trip in England. Unfortunately did not stop although the next time I come to England I intend to. Did get to see the castle from the highway as we went by. As a soccer fan I have a soft-ish spot for Lewes FC as well and hope for an eventual promotion out of the Isthmian League.
Yeah it's not the most impressive castle sadly but good it's still intact and yeah I keep an eye on Lewes we're just kinda meh
There is actually a little bit of a relationship between the two cities. Here’s an article of the two mayors talking during COVID https://www.capegazette.com/node/213795/1000
Oh wow your Lewes knew about the flood we had in 2001 that's cool
During the Revolutionary War, the British came up the Bay to invade. It was very foggy. The townspeople lined up holding cornstalks as if they were muskets. The British thought the defenseless town had a formidable force and turned back.
It’s a wealthy beach resort town, also the oldest town in the state of Delaware. Lots of new retirees and new development in the surrounding area. It has a very well maintained historic district as well
Lewes in Delaware is named after your Lewes! William Penn named it after his wife’s hometown of Lewes, Sussex, England. Soon after my family and I moved to Lewes, DE (we’re British and American) we visited Lewes, England while in the UK visiting family. There’s a puzzle and gourmet food store in Lewes that sells quite a few British goods as the owners are British.
Good to see people visiting our town, just spent today watching Lewes FC play haha, that's a very cool fact though and it makes sense it's named after my Lewes
Its most recent claim to fame is the place where [Biden fell off of his bicycle](https://youtu.be/-EahgmNmMsM?si=t058SZuqyE4I1fI0) 🤣
The older I get, the more interesting I find these things.
Yeah same here man
Growing up in Jersey it always throws me when English talk about Camden.
Good old Camden Town
my great aunt carol lives in our lewis
My man george thorogood is from wilmington
I’ve seen dolphins and sea turtles sometimes in the canal!
Yay, sister towns! I live on the opposite end of the state, so can't say much about it, but that's neat. :) Me, I'm in New Castle County and England of course also has a Newcastle. Related names aren't uncommon, and more often not a coincidence, on the Eastern half of the U.S.
Lewes has a great little downtown with some good restaurants, antique shops, and a killer toy store - and beer/liquor store. There is a ferry that connects the southern most point in New Jersey (Cape May) to Lewes via the Delaware Bay, which is a fun little day trip for us NJ folks. Would love to be successful enough to one day retire there!
Up the Albion
Many British town names in Delaware. Counties in the state are New Castle, Kent, and Sussex and the capitol is Dover
Is Lewes, England pronounced the same as Lewes, Delaware, as in Lewis?
I just learned at our local history museum that we are the only two places called Lewes in the world... Apparently Canada used to have a Lewes river or something like that but they changed the name so we're the last two standing. Also.come visit. 🙂 It's a nice place in a lot of ways that "Lewes I" appears to be nice so I've always thought we should have some kind of informal exchange program.
I read in here somewhere the UK Lewes is hilly. The Delaware Lewes is flat as a board. Lewes is located in the Atlantic Coastal Plain physiographic region, about 75-80 miles south/east of the Appalachian Piedmont physiographic region. Many early European settlements were located on the fall line between the two regions, where water mills could be constructed. Lewes rests on top of about 10,000 feet of sand that has eroded out of the Appalachian mountains over the past 200 million years or so - back when Africa began to separate from North America and Pangaea broke apart. The land consists of a lot of brackish inland waterways and tidal marshes.
Hilly is an understatement
Nope
just wait until you hear about new castle county
There's a little shop in Lewes where one can stock up on British grocery items. Don't remember the name but it's right as you cross the drawbridge. We always go to the puzzle/bookstore in the same building and usually wander into the British section.
Definitely the patty Canon house
Not only this, but there’s a Dover in Delaware in Kent County!
The man who started the American revolution was from Lewis England and named Lewis Delaware and Sussex County. There’s a plaque in a hotel in Lewis, England that explains it all. I am from Lewis Delaware, but lived in Brighton for years.
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lol.
Lewes, not Lewis The man who started the American Revolution - what weed are you smoking?
I have to correct people on the spelling so damn often it drives me crazy 😂
Oh I should see which hotel that is 😂 pretty cool our Lewes has someone that important, you gotta remember the second e 😉😂
Yes. We have a city by the same name in England!
Delaware Lewes is better than British Lewes.
There's no need to compare 
No.
Oh, its great. Redneck Riviera. Its even better in winter when the only thing open is the school, hospital and cemetery.