view from a bell tower in Rye
No I have not bought a drone camera ,to take this shot I climbed to the top of the very steep twelfth century bell tower of St Marys church in Rye to take a shot of the town
Rye is a small town in East Sussex It is two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. In medieval times, as an important member of the Cinque Ports confederation, it was almost entirely surrounded by the sea. It has one of the best preserved medieval street systems in England and as a consequence receives many visitors
It also has strong literary links if you look at the image and follow the line of the roof apex below you will see a small street at the end of the street is Lamb House. Henry James the great American novelist lived in the house from 1897 to 1914. He sold it to E.F. Benson the English novelist whose series of books “Mapp and Lucia” are largely based in Rye which Benson called Tilling . If you have not read anything by E.F. Benson he is worth a look. Written in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties the six novels in the Mapp and Lucia series are delightfully written comic novels that capture so well English snobbery and pretension . In particular the constant battle for supremacy between Miss Mapp and Lucia Lucus. They were filmed in Rye in 1985 on Channel 4, its a box set I regularly return too
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view from a bell tower in Rye
No I have not bought a drone camera ,to take this shot I climbed to the top of the very steep twelfth century bell tower of St Marys church in Rye to take a shot of the town
Rye is a small town in East Sussex It is two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. In medieval times, as an important member of the Cinque Ports confederation, it was almost entirely surrounded by the sea. It has one of the best preserved medieval street systems in England and as a consequence receives many visitors
It also has strong literary links if you look at the image and follow the line of the roof apex below you will see a small street at the end of the street is Lamb House. Henry James the great American novelist lived in the house from 1897 to 1914. He sold it to E.F. Benson the English novelist whose series of books “Mapp and Lucia” are largely based in Rye which Benson called Tilling . If you have not read anything by E.F. Benson he is worth a look. Written in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties the six novels in the Mapp and Lucia series are delightfully written comic novels that capture so well English snobbery and pretension . In particular the constant battle for supremacy between Miss Mapp and Lucia Lucus. They were filmed in Rye in 1985 on Channel 4, its a box set I regularly return too
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO
WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .