Walks from Rye
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Rye Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Rye by train.
Hastings to Rye
Highly recommended: Clifftop coastal path, steep climbs, remote naturist beach, flat marshland, ancient hilltop towns and panoramic viewpoints.
Coastal: three fifths along the coast.
Time: 5h30–11h30
Warnings: Crumbly cliff edges.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Reverse direction: Railwalks.
Rye Circular via St Mary the Virgin
Medieval hilltop town, reclaimed marshland, shingle beach, saline lagoons, freshwater gravel pits, reedbeds, riverside embankments and coastal nature reserve.
Time: 3h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Rye to Ham Street
Some great views from the top of the old Isle of Oxney. A largely flat low-lying route on decent paths, mostly along the Royal Military Canal towpath and with some field paths and a stretch over the higher ground of the old Isle of Oxney. Largely follows the Saxon Shore Way. In dry summers an alternative Saxon Shore Path from Appledore to Ham Street offers better, more varied scenery.
Waterway: two thirds along the Royal Military Canal.
Time: 5h–10h
1 lunch spot: the Woolpack Inn
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Rye Circular via Scots Float Sluice
Medieval hilltop town, reclaimed marshland, shingle beach, riverside embankments, agricultural fields, wooded hillsides and village lanes via Playden.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Embankment path closed until 2026/27.
Source: A longer variant of Rye Figure of 8 – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Rye Circular via All Saints Church
Flat levels, farmland, coastal path to Pett Level and return via connecting walk.
Source: A variant of Winchelsea to Hastings – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).