Editing Romney Marsh (section)

===River Rother===
[[File:Rye panorama.jpg|thumb|View across the marsh from [[Rye, Sussex|Rye]]]]

The [[River Rother (Eastern)|River Rother]] today flows into the sea below [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]], but until 1287 its mouth lay between [[New Romney|Romney]] and [[Lydd]]. It was tidal far upstream, almost to [[Bodiam]]. The river mouth was wide with a huge [[lagoon]], making Rye a port at its western end. That lagoon lay behind a large island, which now makes up a large part of the Denge Marsh, on which stood the ports of Lydd and the old [[Winchelsea]]. All these ports were affiliated to (as "limbs" of) the [[Cinque Ports]].