richeye

Updated: May 4, 2025

"The great and fertile plain stretching along the Sussex coast from the eastward of Beachy Head in the direction of Hastings, and inland towards Wartling, Hurstmonceux and Hailsham, now studded with fat beeves, was at some remote era, covered by the sea, and what are known as 'eyes, or elevations above the surrounding level such as Chilleye, Northeye, Horseye, Richeye, &c. must have been islands, forming a miniature archipelago.

Edric Holmes - Seaward Sussex: The South Downs from End to End