The Boundaries of Rye Beating the bounds is an ancient custom which has been observed in Rye on occasion over the years. The custom started in times when there were few maps. Sometimes the events were known as name Gangdays, and participants would be going a-ganging. Records of Gangdays date prior to the Norman Conquest. Rye follows the traditional … Continue reading Beating the Bounds of Rye 1982
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Discover Beating the Bounds in the pages of Rye’s Own, where the subject emerges through local voices, historical detail and stories written close to the events. Readers can move between “Celebrating 700 Years of Rye Mayoral History” and “Beating the Bounds of Rye 1982”, seeing how the subject appeared at different moments in the magazine.
Celebrating 700 Years of Rye Mayoral History
Celebrations that Did Not Happen in 1889 and Those That Did in 1989 Early in the 1890’s the names of all known Mayors of Rye were painted on the wall panels of the Town Hall Chamber.