Rye - Mermaid Street

For a most rewarding stroll in Rye visit enchanting Mermaid Street with its Old Hospital, a triple-gabled half-timbered 15th/16th century building and the Mermaid Inn, a 15th century half-timbered pub rich in tradition - it was once a notorious meeting place for smugglers. At the upper end of the street stands Lamb House, an elegant 18th century Georgian building in which the American author Henry James (1843-1916) spent the last years of his life and wrote the novels "The Wings of the Dove" (1902) and "The Golden Bowl" (1904).