2013 Guide to Rye - 1066 Country
2013 Guide to Rye - 1066 Country
2013 Guide to Rye - 1066 Country
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June<br />
Saturday 1<br />
An Introduction <strong>to</strong> <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Harbour Nature Reserve<br />
(3.5 miles). Meet at Brede<br />
Lock, Harbour Road,<br />
Saturday 8<br />
Live music with Cocos Lovers<br />
+ Will Varley, The School<br />
Creative Centre, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Saturday 8 & Monday 10<br />
Winchelsea’s secret gardens<br />
NGS (8) & for <strong>Rye</strong> Memorial<br />
Hospital (10).<br />
Saturday 8 & Monday 10<br />
Winchelsea Medieval<br />
Cellar Tour<br />
Sunday 9<br />
Breeding Birds - Bird watch,<br />
<strong>Rye</strong>. Meet <strong>Rye</strong> Harbour car<br />
park<br />
Monday 10<br />
Meadow Gardening Study<br />
Day, Great Dixter Gardens,<br />
Northiam<br />
Friday 14<br />
Comedy Night,<br />
The George in <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Friday 14 – Sunday 16<br />
Special Rose Weekend,<br />
Pashley Manor Gardens<br />
Saturday 15<br />
CAMRA Beer Festival, Kent &<br />
East Sussex Railway<br />
Saturday 15<br />
Vulcan XH558 display over<br />
Hastings seafront. Final flying<br />
season!<br />
Sunday 16<br />
Father’s Day, Kent & East<br />
Sussex Railway<br />
Thursday 20<br />
Back in the Room Comedy<br />
Night with James Acaster,<br />
White Rock Theatre, Hastings<br />
Friday 21 – Sunday 23<br />
Kitchen Garden Weekend,<br />
Pashley Manor Gardens<br />
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23<br />
Walking, Talking, Drawing<br />
with Sarah Palmer and Denise<br />
Franklin. The School Creative<br />
Centre, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Sunday 23<br />
Trapping Sharks, Tigers and<br />
Elephants! - Moth trapping,<br />
<strong>Rye</strong>. Meet Lime Kiln Cottage<br />
Information Centre<br />
Monday 24<br />
Good Planting Study Day,<br />
Great Dixter Gardens,<br />
Northiam<br />
Saturday 29 & Sunday 30<br />
‘Pack up your Troubles’ a<br />
Great War weekend. Living<br />
his<strong>to</strong>ry group re-enactments,<br />
period vehicles and displays<br />
Kent & East Sussex Railway.<br />
July<br />
Monday 1<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening Year:<br />
July Study Day, Northiam<br />
Saturday 6<br />
An Introduction <strong>to</strong> <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Harbour Nature Reserve (4<br />
miles), Meet at public <strong>to</strong>ilets<br />
on Dogs Hill Road,<br />
Monday 15<br />
Succession Planting in the<br />
Mixed Border Study Day,<br />
Great Dixter Gardens, Northiam<br />
Thursday 18<br />
Back in the Room Comedy<br />
Night with Nish Kumar, White<br />
Rock Theatre, Hastings<br />
Saturday 20 & Sunday 21<br />
Winchelsea Medieval Cellar<br />
Tours<br />
Sunday 21<br />
Oodles of Attercops (Spider<br />
watch), <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Meet at Lime Kiln Cottage<br />
Information Centre,<br />
Sunday 21<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Triathlon -Starts at<br />
Winchelsea Beach Recreation<br />
Ground.<br />
Wednesday 24<br />
Bumblebee Walk and Talk,<br />
Great Dixter<br />
Saturday 27 - Monday 29<br />
A Day Out With Thomas, Kent<br />
& East Sussex Railway<br />
Sunday 28<br />
Beginners’ Bird Watching<br />
(2 miles), <strong>Rye</strong> Meet at <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Harbour car park<br />
Monday 29<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening Year:<br />
August Study Day, Northiam<br />
Tuesday 30 July -<br />
Sunday 18 August<br />
Half Price Travel for Kids - 2<br />
kids for half price travel<br />
per one adult/senior ticket<br />
purchased, Kent & East Sussex<br />
Railway<br />
August<br />
Thursday 1 – Saturday 31<br />
Battle Tactics for Kids, <strong>1066</strong><br />
Battle of Hastings, Abbey and<br />
Battlefield<br />
Wednesday 7<br />
Mini beasts hunt, <strong>Rye</strong> Harbour<br />
Nature Reserve. Meet at Lime<br />
Kiln Cottage Information<br />
Centre<br />
Wednesday 7<br />
Just So S<strong>to</strong>ry and Puppet day<br />
at Bateman’s, Burwash<br />
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11<br />
Medieval Festival – Bodiam<br />
Castle<br />
Sunday 11<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Maritime Festival<br />
Wednesday 14<br />
Shrimping & Rock pooling at<br />
Pett Level. Meet at eastern<br />
entrance <strong>to</strong> Pett Level village<br />
Saturday 17<br />
The <strong>Rye</strong> Show, Lea Farm,<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Foreign<br />
Thursday 22 – Monday 26<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> International Jazz Festival<br />
Saturday 24<br />
Katsuma from the Moshi<br />
Monsters at Drusillas Park<br />
Saturday 24 & Sunday 25<br />
Winchelsea Medieval Cellar<br />
Tours<br />
Saturday 24 – Monday 26<br />
Medieval Festival –<br />
Herstmonceux Castle<br />
Saturday 24 – Monday 26<br />
Sussex Guild Craft Show,<br />
Pashley Manor Gardens<br />
Sunday 25<br />
Annual <strong>Rye</strong> Raft Race and<br />
Fete River Rother and The Salts<br />
Sunday 25<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Raft Race, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
September<br />
Monday 2<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening Year:<br />
September Study Day High<br />
Park Close, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Saturday 7<br />
Autumn Migration on the<br />
Beach Reserve (3 miles), <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Meet at rye Harbour car park<br />
Saturday 7<br />
Autumn show – Winchelsea<br />
Gardening Society<br />
Visit New Hall, Winchelsea<br />
Sunday 8<br />
Gourmet Wine Tasting<br />
Evening at The Ambrette<br />
White Vine House<br />
Saturday 14 & Sunday 15<br />
Hop Pickers Weekend Kent &<br />
East Sussex Railway<br />
Saturday 14 & 15<br />
Hastings Seafood & Wine<br />
Festival<br />
Sunday 14 - Sunday 29<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Arts Festival <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Sunday 15<br />
Camber Castle Wildlife and<br />
His<strong>to</strong>ry (2.5 miles), Brede Lock<br />
Meet Brede lock, <strong>Rye</strong> Harbour<br />
Road.<br />
Sunday 15<br />
Tour of Winchelsea and two<br />
medieval cellars.<br />
16 -18, 20, 22, 25, 27<br />
Winchelsea Medieval Cellars<br />
Tours<br />
Monday 16<br />
Study Day Exotic Gardening<br />
at Great Dixter, Northiam<br />
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22<br />
Gala – ‘Return <strong>to</strong><br />
Robertsbridge’ Kent & East<br />
Sussex Railway<br />
Monday 23<br />
Nursery Propagation Day,<br />
Great Dixter, Northiam<br />
Sunday 29<br />
Vintage Wedding Fair The<br />
George in <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Monday 30<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening Year:<br />
Oc<strong>to</strong>ber Study Day, Northiam<br />
Oc<strong>to</strong>ber<br />
Friday 4 & Saturday 5<br />
Open Studios – School<br />
Creative Centre, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Saturday 12<br />
Autumn Migration Watch (3<br />
miles), Meet at Brede Lock<br />
Saturday 12 – Sunday 20<br />
Hastings Week<br />
Saturday 19<br />
Hastings Bonfire<br />
Saturday 26<br />
Winter Lecture: Fungi in<br />
Sussex, Winchelsea<br />
Winchelsea Beach Community<br />
Hall.<br />
Saturday 26 Oc<strong>to</strong>ber -<br />
Sunday 3 November<br />
Wild Boar week, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Saturday 26 Oc<strong>to</strong>ber -<br />
Sunday 3 November<br />
Spooky Abbey, <strong>1066</strong> Battle of<br />
Hastings, Abbey & Battlefield<br />
Sunday 27<br />
Autumn Walk – Royal Military<br />
Canal, Appledore. Meet<br />
Appledore Village Hall car park<br />
Monday 28 - Friday 1 Nov<br />
Halloween Half-Term Fun<br />
Week Kent & East Sussex<br />
Railway<br />
Thursday 31 & Friday 1<br />
November<br />
Fright Night Train Kent & East<br />
Sussex Railway<br />
November<br />
Monday 4<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening<br />
Year: November Study Day,<br />
Northiam<br />
Saturday 9<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Bonfire, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Sunday 10<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Annual Remembrance<br />
Day parade and Civic Service,<br />
<strong>Rye</strong>. <strong>Rye</strong> Parish Church and<br />
War Memorial<br />
Saturday 16<br />
<strong>Guide</strong>d stroll along the River<br />
Rother, meet <strong>Rye</strong> Heritage<br />
Centre.<br />
Sunday 17<br />
Winter Birds at the Beach<br />
Reserve (3 miles), <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Meet <strong>Rye</strong> Harbour car park<br />
Monday 25<br />
Great Dixter’s Gardening<br />
Year: December Study Day,<br />
Northiam<br />
Saturday 30 – Sunday<br />
January 5<br />
Winter Wonderland<br />
Illuminations at Drusillas Park<br />
December<br />
Date TBC<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Christmas Festival<br />
Each weekend until<br />
Christmas, plus Tuesday 24<br />
Santa Specials, Kent & East<br />
Sussex Railway<br />
Sunday 1<br />
Winter Wonderland Wedding<br />
Fair The George in <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Friday 6 & Saturday 7<br />
Christmas Bizarre, School<br />
Creative Centre, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Art and craft fair with a twist!<br />
Saturday 7<br />
Festive Beach Clean, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Join the warden for a walk<br />
and clean up, meet at <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Harbour car park<br />
Saturday 7<br />
Evening Christmas Farmers<br />
Market – Brightling Village<br />
Hall<br />
Thursday 12<br />
Christmas Shared Party The<br />
George in <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Saturday 21<br />
<strong>Rye</strong> Arts and Crafts Christmas<br />
Fair, Community Centre, <strong>Rye</strong><br />
Each WE of December until<br />
Christmas & Tuesday 24<br />
Santa Specials Kent & East<br />
Sussex Railway