Rye, an interesting old port in the SE. corner of Sussex, situated on rising ground flanked by two streams, 63 m. SE. from London, one of the Cinque Ports (q.v.); the retiral of the sea has left it now 2 m. inland; has a fine Norman and Early English church.
Population (circa 1900) given as 4,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ryde * Rye House Plot