English Counties - SUSSEX (WEST & EAST) - A Whistle Stop Tour

And we can have a wander around Rye Harbour and watch the fishing boats coming and going and have a look at a Martello Tower too, nearby; once part of Rye's sea defences.

Picture by Paul Hilton

And as we go up to the High St and Conservation Area, we pass through Landgate, one of the remaining parts of Rye's defences from the land side of the town.

Picture by chris williams

Thank you so much Paul, correction noted, and the additional information and pics are very much appreciated.  I love both the sound and look of the Peace & Plenty Pub, must make a point of visiting it!

How fascinating to have all that history attached to the family.  Thanks for the extra information on Arundel Castle.

Peggy you did add Battle into the West Sussex part of the tour.  Please feel free to now add it to the East Sussex tour now, and thank you for participating.  The more people that can add to the thread with more information, the better.

My great grandfather, Wyomarus de Greenwode, was caterer to Empress Matilda/Maud mentioned above.  During the Civil War that ensued due to Stephen also claiming the throne, she was imprisoned at Devizes, Wiltshire where she escaped; re-captured and sent to Oxford, from where she escaped and fled to France where she had a son who would become Henry II upon Stephen's death.  It is reputed that part of her body was returned to England after her death in France and buried in Reading Abbey where her father, Henry I, had been buried, as he'd built Reading Abbey as his family mausoleum originally.

Paul I suppose I shouldn't ask, but how old are you, if your great grandfather was caterer to Empress Matilda/Maud????? lol

By the way Peggy, I know I shall have no difficulty in finding photos when I get to East Anglia, thanks to you!

No Cathy, more three St Andrews crosses and a chervon representing the rafters of a house and with furs, and stated as----Sable, a chevron ermines between 3 saltiers argent.