Winchelsea, The Town 1906
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The route now heads eastwards to Winchelsea, which is a mile inland and might be considered an impostor in this chapter, rather like Rye. Old Winchelsea was destroyed in storms in 1287, and Edward I founded New Winchelsea as a hill town above its harbour in 1288. However, the harbour silted up and the town never grew as hoped. By Victorian times it was a sleepy near-village with a medieval street plan, numerous medieval cellars and architecturally mostly 18th-and 19th-century, as in this view west along High Street.
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