Disused Rye Harbour Branch line . Rye East Sussex

The Rye Harbour Branch (1 mile). This 1½ mile standard gauge branch left the Ashford-Hastings line just west of Rye station. It can be joined on the southern edge of Rye at grid reference TQ 920199, where a kissing gate leads on to a narrow waymarked path enclosed by bushes. This is the trackbed, which soon opens out on to a shallow embankment across sheep pastures, with fine views of Camber Castle to the south. The old railway can now be followed, with very minor diversions, as far as the former level crossing on Harbour Road (TQ 936192). Do not turn back here, but continue by road to Rye Harbour, turn left at the T junction where Harbour Road ends, and walk past the William the Conqueror pub to the water's edge. Turn left here and you will see the railway trackbed heading back towards Rye. Look around carefully, and you will see another grassy embankment nearby, which carried a branch off of the branch. While you are here, do not be surprised to see railway trackbeds heading off at 90 degrees to each other: there were three wagon turntables in Rye Harbour, which explain how this seemingly impossible feat was achieved. There is a bus stop near the end of Harbour Road, from which buses can be caught back to Rye (half hourly Monday to Saturday, limited