Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Rye. You may be able to find further references to Rye in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
RYE	a town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district	Imperial
Rye (or Eastern) Division	parliamentary division	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Rye within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 2, Part 2: Canterbury and Sussex	6
Celia Fiennes	Tunbridge Wells and Rye	5
William Camden	Kent	3
William Camden	Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex	2
John Wesley	1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People	2
William Cobbett	Aug. 30th to Sept. 1st, 1823: Sussex and Kent	1
Daniel Defoe	Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire	1
Paul Hentzner	Arrival and London	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Rye Harbour	0	2
Goldspur	0	2
Icklesham	0	2
Playden	0	2
Winchelsea	15	2
East Guldeford	0	2
Udimore	0	2
Peasmarsh	0	2
Iden	0	2
Camber	0	2
Pett	0	2
Cinque Ports	0	2
Gostrow	0	2
Beckley	0	2
Broomhill	2	2
Oxney	0	2
Wittersham	1	2
Stone	0	2
Fairfield	0	2
Brookland	0	2