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Rye is Britain’s Answer to the Hamptons – and London’s Stylish Set Can’t Get Enough
For decades, there has been only one answer to the question of where New York's stylish set disappears each summer: the Hamptons. Now, London has its own equivalent.
No, not Margate or Whitstable, but Rye. The East Sussex town, reached in just over an hour from St Pancras via Ashford, is quietly becoming the capital's most fashionable weekend escape. Technically, it isn't even on the coast. Instead, the medieval hilltop town sits around two miles inland, with the vast sweep of Camber Sands a 10-minute drive away. That separation has proved part of its charm: visitors...
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