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Updated: July 1, 2026

The chief charm of Rye is to walk along the narrow streets and lanes, and see the picturesque rows and groups of old fifteenth-and sixteenth-century houses with their tiled roofs and gables, weather-boarded or tile-hung after the manner of Sussex cottages, graceful bay-windows altogether pleasing.

P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield - Vanishing England