Rye Harbour
Rye Harbour is a village located on the East Sussex coast in southeast England, near the estuary of the River Rother: it is part of the civil parish of Icklesham and the Rother district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 448 residents
- Description: village in East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Rye Harbour, East Sussex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Church of the Holy Spirit and Martello Tower No. 28.
Camber Castle
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Camber Castle, also known formerly as Winchelsea Castle, is a 16th-century Device Fort, built near Rye by King Henry VIII to protect the Sussex coast of England against French attack.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rye and Winchelsea Beach.
Rye
Photo: Thilver, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rye is a town in East Sussex that in medieval times was one of the Cinque Ports responsible for England's maritime defence. It stood at the head of a bay, which silted up, leaving the town two miles from the sea.
Winchelsea Beach
Village
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winchelsea Beach is a seaside village in the parish of Icklesham in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is located about ten miles east of Hastings, and about 1.5 miles south east of Winchelsea. Winchelsea Beach is situated 2 miles southwest of Rye Harbour.
Winchelsea
Town
Photo: Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winchelsea is a town in the county of East Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately two miles southwest of Rye and seven miles north east of Hastings. Winchelsea is situated 2½ miles southwest of Rye Harbour.
Rye Harbour
- Category: locality
- Location: Icklesham, Rother District, East Sussex, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9383° or 50° 56′ 18″ northLongitude
0.75977° or 0° 45′ 35″ eastPopulation
448Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RU7Open location code
9F22WQQ5+8WOpenStreetMap ID
node 458250072OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Rye Harbour” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Rye Harbour”
- French: “Rye Harbour”
- Irish: “Rye Harbour”
- Japanese: “ライ・ハーバー”
- Polish: “Rye Harbour”
- Swedish: “Rye Harbour”
- Welsh: “Rye Harbour”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rye Harbour Holiday Park and Rye Harbour Discovery Centre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rye Harbour”. Photo: sue hayton, CC BY-SA 2.0.