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The Rother, Kent

Historical Description

Rother, The, a river of Sussex and Kent, rising near Rotherfield, in Sussex; running about 16 miles eastward, past Scotchfords Bridge, Etchingham, and Robertsbridge, to the boundary with Kent near Bodiam; tracing that boundary, about 9 miles east-south-eastward, to the vicinity of Craven Bridge; and going thence about 6 miles southward within Sussex, and past Bye, to the sea in the vicinity of Winchelsea. It formerly went right eastward, from the vicinity of Craven Bridge, through Eomney Marsh to the sea at New Romney; it was driven from that course by a great storm in the time of Edward I.; it was navigable before its change of course up to Etchingham; and it was ascended in 893 by Hastings, one of whose barges was found in 1822 in Northiam.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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