Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . stence, andis still in a flourishing condition. Rye also furnishes acontingent to the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry ; and a goodlynumber of her inhabitants took part in the South AfricanWar. The Rye and Camber Steam Tramway was opened in the summer of 1895. It is not too much tosay that the most sanguine expectations of its promotershave been realised. Soon after the completion of theMonk-Bretton Bridge (adjoining which is the town station)it was thought that a tramway
Adam's illustrated guide to Rye (with map) : Winchelsea, Northiam, Camben-on-Sea, and all places of interest in the neighbourhood . stence, andis still in a flourishing condition. Rye also furnishes acontingent to the Sussex Imperial Yeomanry ; and a goodlynumber of her inhabitants took part in the South AfricanWar. The Rye and Camber Steam Tramway was opened in the summer of 1895. It is not too much tosay that the most sanguine expectations of its promotershave been realised. Soon after the completion of theMonk-Bretton Bridge (adjoining which is the town station)it was thought that a tramway to Camber would prove agreat acquisition to the neighbourhood. The increasingpopularity of the Golf Links at length led to the floatingof a Tramways Company; and, recognising that it was astep in the right direction, several shareholders investedwith the faintest hope of obtaining any pecuniary has, however, been well patronised from the first day ofopening. The Directors wisely fixed popular fares, andboth of the well-appointed cars, during the summer months,are often inconveniently crowded ; while, on Bank Holi-. GUIDE TO RYE. lOI days, it is difiicult to cope with the traffic. Consideringthat in the short space of ten minutes, the inhabitants ofRye can be transported to the sea-side, it is not to bewondered at that Camber should be a favourite rendezvousfor so many of her denizens. There is a frequent serviceof trams ; and the Harbour Commissioners Ferry is situatedirectly opposite the Camber Station. • Point Hill. This is entirely a new appellation, and, although origin-ally given by Mr. R. T. Blomfield, , the well-knownarchitect, to his local residence, it now popularly embracesthe block of handsome buildings recently erected on theplateau to ihe right of Rye Hill. These commandadmirable sea and land views, and excite wonderment inthe minds of somnolent Ryers of a past generation, whichis intensified when the formerly picturesque Hilly Fieldslower down
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