The confederation of Cinque Ports is a historic group of coastal towns in south-east England – predominantly in Kent and Sussex, with one outlier in Essex. The name is Old French, meaning "five harbou
Pub sign in Rye
The Cinque Ports arms at Strand Gate, Rye
The Cinque Ports arms at Ramsgate Port
Rye is a town and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, two miles from the English Channel at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. In the mi
Cinque Ports
…Winchelsea Rye Over the years, a number of further towns and ports joined the confederation as detached "Limbs" or "Members" (the terms are used interchangeably) of…
The Ypres tower, Rother, Rye Harbour and marshes seen from the tower of St Mary's Church, Rye
The South Gate at Rye, 1785, by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm