This Desk Based assessment has been prepared for the proposed Kingston to Lewes cycle path which runs from the junction of Kingston Road and Wellgreen Lane at the south end to the entrance to the sports ground on the Kingston Road at its north end. The review of the evidence suggests a background of prehistoric and Roman activity, with hunter gatherer activity around the edge of the Levels until the end of the Neolithic period, and then a farmed landscape on the adjacent downland from the Bronze Age onwards. The Levels may have been drained from the Saxon period, and the adjacent Cockshut Stream may have provided one of the water supplies to the Medieval Priory of St Pancras at Lewes, with the terraced bank on which the Kingston Road is situated possibly forming a dam for the ponding of water. Evidence for the management of water meadows survived at the sports ground until the mid 20th century, with the Cockshut Stream providing water to strips of land which were used to feed sheep and grow hay from at least the early 17th century, and probably much earlier. The course of the stream has been changed in the 19th century and again during the 20th century. Although the intrusive impact of the cycle path appears to be minimal, it may provide an opportunity to investigate further the course and use of the Cockshut Stream and the terraced bank, and thus provide further information about the water supply to the Priory and the management of the water meadows on the Levels.