The Snowdrop Inn, Lewes, East Sussex, UK
On 27 December 1836 in Lewes, Sussex, a huge build-up of snow on a chalk cliff overlooking the town collapsed into the settlement 100 metres below, destroying a row of cottages and killing eight people. It remains the deadliest avalanche on record in the United Kingdom The public house called the Snowdrop Inn (named in commemoration of the incident) was built in South Street on the site once occupied by Boulder Row, and still trades under the same name today.
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Location: lewes kent england
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