Once a cross-Channel port,
red-roofed Rye is now marooned thanks to centuries
of silt. It has picturesque buildings and cobbled
streets. Most famous resident was author Henry
James who lived in Lamb House from 1898 until his
death in 1916. Another resident, writer E. F. Benson,
made Rye the backdrop to his ‘Mapp and Lucia’
stories and became its mayor in the 1930's.
