Visit Southease Places

Welcome to Visit Southease Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Southease

  

Southease Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Southease

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Southease history

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Name

The name seems to be of Anglo-Saxon origin, meaning “South land overgrown with brushwood” The name means “Southland overgrown”

Historical record

The village first appears in the historical record when King Edgar granted the manor of Southease to Hyde Abbey in 996. At the time of the Domesday Book a thriving community was in place and the village appears to have been the biggest herring fishery in the district. During World War II four Type 24 pillboxes were built, roughly at the corners of the village, with a Type 28 pillbox just to the north.

You can visit Southease places with Walkfo Southease to hear history at Southease’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southease has 21 places to visit in our interactive Southease map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Southease, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Southease places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southease & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 21 audio facts unique to Southease places in an interactive Southease map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Southease Places Map
21 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Southease historic spots	Southease tourist destinations	Southease plaques	Southease geographic features
Walkfo Southease tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southease

  

Best Southease places to visit

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Southease has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southease’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southease’s information audio spots:

Monk’s House Monk’s House is a 16th-century weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell, three miles (4.8 km) south of Lewes, East Sussex. The writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, the political activist, journalist and editor Leonard Woolf, bought the house by auction at the White Hart Hotel in July 1919 for 700 pounds. The National Trust now operates the building as a writer’s house museum.

Lewes and Laughton Levels The Lewes and Laughton Levels are an area of low-lying land bordering the River Ouse and Glynde Reach in East Sussex. The area was probably a tidal inlet in Norman times, but by the early 14th century, some meadows had been created by building embankments. Conditions deteriorated later that century, and by 1537, most of the meadows were permanently flooded. Part of the problem was the buildup of shingle across the mouth of the Ouse, but a scot tax was raised, and a new channel cut through the shingle.

Glynde Reach Glynde Reach is a river in East Sussex and tributary of the River Ouse. Main channel is fed from sources near Laughton, Rushy Green and two streams near Selmeston.

St Nicholas Church, Iford The Church of St Nicholas is Grade I listed in East Sussex. It is in the Diocese of Chichester and in the United Benefice of Iford with Kingston, Rodmell and Southease.

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