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| | GENUKI: Rye, SSX - Description |
 | | RYE is a cinque port, parliamentary borough, market, union, seaport town, railway station and polling lace for the Eastern division of the county, on the navigable river Rother, in Goldspur hundred, rape of Hastings, diocese of Chichester, archdeaconry of Lewes, and deanery of Dallington, 83 miles from London, and 9 north-east from Hastings. |
 | | Here is a line of railway called the Rye Harbour line, which is open for the goods traffic and cargoes of coal brought to the station for transmission to Hastings. |
 | | The parliamentary borough comprises the parishes of Rye, Winchelsea, Peasmarsh, Iden, Playden, East Guldeford, Icklesham and Udimore. |
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