page_title: Kingston near Lewes
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Kingston near Lewes / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Tapsel gate at St Pancras church, Kingston near Lewes, East Sussex, England.
context_page_description: Kingston near Lewes is a village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and is located two miles south of Lewes on the slopes of the South Downs.
context_section_description: The Norman parish St Pancras Church is dedicated to St. Pancras and has a distinctive Tapsel gate, with a central pivot which locals believe was designed to make it easy for funeral bearers to pass either side.
  Above Kingston, to the east of the village, stood Ashcombe Mill, a six-sailed post mill which collapsed in 1916. Planning permission was granted for the construction of a replica of the mill for residential purposes on the original site, which has since been built.
  Westward of the village the land rises to a height of over 600 feet (180 m) at Kingston Hill and Newmarket Hill.
  Castle Hill, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, lies within the parish. The site, which extends into the Brighton district, is listed as of biological interest because of its habitat of chalk grassland. Early spider-orchid and the wart-biter (a bush cricket) are two nationally rare species that are found here.
caption: Tapsel gate at St Pancras Church, Kingston near Lewes
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