View From Ypres Tower, Rye, East Sussex
Posted in Museums, Trips at 12:00 on 14 November 2020
From the top of Ypres Tower (Rye Castle) there is a view across the River Rother – into which the River Tillingham flows just by the Tower – out to the sea. As seen in this photo.

Turning left to look east the building in the foreground below used to be a Women’s Prison:-

The Ypres Castle Inn also lies just below the Tower:-

I mentioned before that Ypres Tower is a museum. As well as containing exhibits relating to the history of Rye – including a relief map showing how the sea used to lap around the town in Roman Times and its gradual retreat thereafter – there is a broadsword from which part of the Cross of Sacrifice in British War Cemeteries was modelled by Sir Reginald Blomfield.
