The Rype
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The Rype
Image: © John Baker Taken: 7 Aug 2022
View from Skinner Road; due to weeks of very little rain, the grass had become bleached. A triangular common, known as the Rype, was supposedly given to the Barons of Lydd by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in return for their having repulsed the Danes in 904. Once an area of common land now a registered village green owned by Lydd council in the centre of the town https://romneymarshhistory.com/lyddtown
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Image Location
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50.949619
Longitude
0.90674