Rye is simply meant for people destined to fall in love.
Walk the cobbled streets to St Mary's Church and take the tour of the belfry; the views of Rye are wonderful. From there the entire town comes into view. Small shops, tearooms, and funky B & B's crowd the narrow streets. Tudor and Elizabethan houses line the lanes and history looms large at every corner.
A short walk takes you to the beach, beautiful at any time of year. Perfect for those long hand-holding walks that go nowhere in particular.
Rye, in ancient days, was once entirely surrounded by sea, its only link with the mainland at high tide was the Land Gate, one of the finest relics in the south of England, which still stands to this day only a few yards from Rye Lodge Hotel.
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By road
The M25 is a ring road encircling London and has junctions with all the country's main roads. From the M25, junction 5, join the A21 Southbound (Hastings). Turn left at Flimwell crossroads traffic lights onto A268 to Rye. From the M25, junction 3, take the M20 to Ashford, leave at junction 10 and take the A2070 to Brenzett then the A259 to Rye. From Hastings take the A259. From Battle go North on the A2100 to the junction with the A21 at John's cross, turn right onto the A21 (South) for about 1 mile then turn left onto the B2089.
By rail
Rye station is on the line between Hastings and Ashford international. Services connect through Hastings to the coastal towns of Bexhill, Eastbourne, Brighton, to London Victoria via Gatwick Airport and to London Charing Cross.
Services through Ashford International connect to London Charing Cross, London Victoria, Canterbury, Dover (connecting with the cross channel ferries) and international services to Lille, Paris and Brussels.