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Rye

Rye town (1991 pop. 4,127), East Sussex, SE England, on the Rother River. It is a tourist resort and small port with boatbuilding and netmaking industries. Rye was one of the "ancient towns" added to the Cinque Ports . It had a thriving trade in the 17th cent. but decayed after the recession of the sea early in the 19th cent. There are remains of an ancient friary, a large Norman and Early English church, the 12th-century Ypres Tower, and the Thomas Peacocke school (1636). The dramatist John Fletcher was born in Rye.

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Rye E. Sussex. Ria 1130. ‘(Place at) the island or dry ground in marsh’. OE īeg, with initial R- from ME atter ‘at the’.

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Rye, Australia, Denmark, UK, USA 1. UK (England): formerly Ria ‘(Place) at the Island’ from the Old English iēg ‘island’; the initial R comes from the Middle English atter ‘at the’.2. USA (New York): settled in 1660 and named after the Rye in England.

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