Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RYE-HARBOUR

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.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sussex AncC
Place: Rye Harbour

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