Where we live

Sir Harry Kroto and his family lived in Lewes, a town in East Sussex.

Lewes castle
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View photographs of Lewes (PDF, 6.23MB).

Lewes is where Thomas Paine honed his views. It has the River in which Virginia Woolf drowned. It is where Mantell, who first recognised a dinosaur fossil, lived. 

The Battle of Lewes and the Mise of Lewes are more important than the Magna Carta.

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