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Also referred to as Pipewell Gate
©Dr Neil Clifton
The A259 used to go right through Winchelsea itself, a place reputed to be England's smallest town and perhaps even England's oldest new town, laid out in a grid pattern in the fourteenth century. Today the trunk road descends steeply to the stone 'Land Gate' - the slope shown here, and presents the driver with a dramatic hairpin-bend at the bottom. The valley in the background is that of the River Brede.
©Adam Colton
This church stands in Winchelsea, East Sussex. The smallest town in England to have a Mayor.
©Paul Russon
Originally Second Street. Unlike other older towns the plan for New Winchelsea included wider roads and large plots between the houses that gives the town a spacious feel and have largely remained unaltered since the 13th century. The reasoning behind the wider roads was fire hazards prone to strike older cramped and narrow medieval towns and cities. Taken from the junction with Hiham Green.
©Simon Carey
The workings of the well are now gated off, but it still contains the old handpump.
©Richard Law
©Chris Whippet
©Chris Whippet
The Town Well is on the right and has a hand worked two throw pump.
©Chris Allen
©Dr Neil Clifton
Named after its occupation during the Napoleonic Wars the 19th century facade actually hides an interior that dates from the original building of the new town in the 13th century. The smaller building to the right is the 19th century town well built through public subscription in 1831 and in use until 1896.
©Simon Carey
©Chris Whippet
Brick and weatherboard fronted houses on Hiham Green. Grade II listed http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1234556
©Oast House Archive
The Little Shop, very appropriately named, is the village's general store.
©Richard Law
A fine old building and former Town Hall since 1557 on the corner of German Street and the High Street; the first floor now houses the town museum.
©Richard Law
Winchelsea sub post office closed in 2000, was refurbished and reopened in January 2004 as a community-owned sub post office.
©Peter Holmes

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