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Lewes

The Lewes Avalanche

2018-02-04
By: ODOmatt
On: February 4, 2018
In: East Sussex, Historical Footnotes
With: 0 Comments

 A Historical Footnote – visited by ODOmatt on the 3th February 2018 The mighty Scottish highlands, imperious Snowdonia, the magisterial Lake District – Lewes, the quaint East Sussex county town, beats them all as the site of the most deadly avalanche in British history. In the winter of 1836 a snowstorm swept across Europe, eventually hitting the south of England in one of the most severe freak weather incidents ever recorded in the British Isles.Read More →

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