Rye Harbour

Rye Harbour
Rye Harbour in 1898 by Reginald Aspinwall
Rye Harbour is located in East Sussex
Rye Harbour
Rye Harbour
Location within East Sussex
OS grid referenceTQ939191
• London54 miles (87 km) NW
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townRYE
Postcode districtTN31
Dialling code01797
PoliceSussex
FireEast Sussex
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
East Sussex
50°56′N 0°46′E / 50.94°N 0.76°E / 50.94; 0.76

Rye Harbour is a village located on the East Sussex coast in southeast England, near the estuary of the River Rother: it is part of the civil parish of Icklesham and the Rother district. Rye Harbour is located some two miles (3.2 km) downstream of the town of Rye.

The River Rother from Rye seawards, and including the village of Rye Harbour, is under the control of the Environment Agency.[1] At the village itself there are yacht moorings; a small fishing fleet (coded RX: Rye SusseX); some commercial shipping; and a long-established lifeboat station.[2] There is also a holiday village called Rye Harbour Holiday Park [3] alongside the village itself.[4]

An industrial estate straddles the road to Rye Harbour from Rye. It contains warehousing, light manufacturing and an oil refinery.[5]

The village community has set up a pictorial website, aimed at promoting its history.[6]

  1. ^ Environment Agency: Managing the Harbour of Rye
  2. ^ "Rye Harbour Lifeboat Station". RNLI. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. ^ [1] Company Website
  4. ^ Rye Harbour Web Site Local tourism & community website
  5. ^ "Rye Harbour Nature Reserve". Trip Advisor. 18 January 2016.
  6. ^ Ryeharbour.net: Village Image Library