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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Rye Harbour like this:
RYE-HARBOUR, a chapelry in Icklesham parish, Sussex; at the mouth of the river Rother, 2½ miles S by W of Rye r. station. It has a post-office under Rye. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Icklesham, in the diocese of Chichester. The church is a neat structure, with anornamental tower. There are a national school, a library, reading-rooms, and a coast-guard station.
Rye Harbour is now part of ROTHER District. Click here for graphs and data of how ROTHER has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Rye Harbour itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Rye Harbour, in Rother and Sussex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23768
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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