Access
The Nature Reserve is an ideal place
for visitors with limited mobility.
Directions: TQ 941 189. 2.3 km. (1.4 miles) south east of Rye, signposted off
the A259, Winchelsea to Rye road.
Facilities: Car park (free).
Toilets (80m.) with adapted facilities for disabled visitors – RADAR key needed
for access and available from your local council. Information Centre at Lime
Kiln Cottage provides free guides and some sales items and “Information Touch
Screen” and is accessible to most wheelchairs. Four birdwatching hides:
Colin Green Hide - accessible to
some wheelchairs (not large ones),
Guy Crittall Hide – fully accessible,
Ray Parkes Hide - accessible to
electric wheelchairs and scooters – path not yet easy for manual wheelchairs, with
sound loop,
Castle Water Hide - accessible to
electric wheelchairs and scooters – path not easy for manual wheelchairs.
Opening Hours & Admission: Reserve and
hides open at all times along a network of footpaths, admission free.
Information Centre (with sound loop) is opened by volunteers 10 am - 5 pm (10 am - 4 pm October to
March).
Description: From the car
park a private tarmac road leads down to the River Mouth for some 1200m. Along
this route there are regular (approx. 100m.) refuges with seating for you to
stop and rest. The Information Centre is 450m. from the car park, then the Colin
Green Hide is another 250m. and the Guy Crittall Hide and Ray
Parkes Hide are a further
1500m. These hides give excellent close
views of breeding seabirds, ducks and waders and much, much more. WARNING – the private
road is used by some vehicles, especially mid-week during the winter, so please
use the refuges along the road to give them plenty of room to pass. There is
also a very challenging circular route of another part of the reserve that is
possible to take some wheelchairs i.e. it is not a hard surface. Rye – Camber Castle – Castle Water – Rye. Click
here for a leaflet of route.
Other developments: Plans are in
progress to improve the road surface, provide more refuges for resting along the
paths, tactile signs in the hides and an audio guide.
More information on this web site or send for free booklet with an A5
sae to Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, East Sussex.TN36
4LU.
