The Abbots of Lewes used their palatial mansion in Tooley Street when they came to visit Bermondsey. The Prior of Lewes supervised the foundation of the Cluniac Abbey at the bottom of Bermondsey Street — its main cloister now is where Bermondsey Square is.
Lewes Priory remained the head of the Cluniac order in England.
Abbots Lane was until the twentieth century known as Stoney Lane.