Marsh frogs sing loudly in the ditches

For those of you are love history this post by Jessica Norrie is a must.. Rye on the East Sussex coast is a town of many secrets, smugglers and has beenhome to some of our most celebrated writers including Henry James and Rudyard Kipling. I often visited when I was working nearby in a school and you do need more than one visit to take in all that the town has to offer.. #recommended

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Isn’t this a lovely cadence? How thoughtful of the Environment Agency display at Rye Harbour to phrase a wildlife description so poetically. Sadly, the marshes are contaminated; walkers are advised not to pick the blackberries. But on a cold February day, the marshes did offer chilly walkers stories to keep their interest, displayed by gaunt defensive structures or wooden bird hides.

Rye town itself was bursting with literary references, reminders of a slower but not gentler age, of swashbuckling crime, political favour, and the influence of empire. This is a town of historical heavyweights and royal visits. Ghosts jostle for position, and many of them were writers. Rumer Godden, living after Henry James in Lamb House, claimed to be haunted there by the characters he created in The Turn of the Screw and E F Benson, creator of Mapp and Lucia, also lived in Lamb House but you wouldn’t know it from the…

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