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The name of the village is probably Danish and means ‘the upland on which the rye grows. The manor of Reydon was mentioned in the Domesday Book with two churches.
Reydon Hall is a fine Elizabethan manor.
Reydon hit the headlines in 1909 when in a terrific gale, a balloon with a French couple on board, blew 800 miles from Nancy in Lorraine across the North Sea, striking the cliffs at Easton Bavents and eventually coming down near Reydon Grove.
St Margaret's church was recorded in the Domesday Book.
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