About Kingston

Kingston village lies in the Downs to the west of Lewes. According to Dr R. Taylor's history of the village, at the time of the Norman Conquest it was owned by Queen Edith, but is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. In 1091 the de Warenne family gave an acre of land to the monks of St Pancras to build a church. Besides the church, with its Tapsell gate, Kingston has many of the traditional appurtenances of an English village: a village hall, a pub and a school. It has grown considerably from the single street of cottages and houses in the 1920s to a large and thriving village.The Lewes District Council has this to say to say about Kingston. Until 1922 Kingston was just a single street of cottages and finer houses, a 12-14th century church and a village green. This tiny community nestling in a fold of the Downs, remains intact in larger Kingston, an attractive village of tree-shaded avenues and pleasant homes. By kind permission of Martin Ternouth, illustration of the history of cartography by reference to Kingston village.