Rye House may refer to:
- Rye House (Litchfield, Connecticut), a Registered Historic Place in Litchfield, Connecticut
- Rye House Cobras, a speedway team
- Rye House Kart Circuit, karting circuit in Rye House, Hertfordshire, England
- Rye House Plot, a plot to assassinate King Charles II of England and his brother, James, Duke of York
- Rye House power station in Rye House, Hertfordshire, England
- Rye House railway station, the local National Rail station in Rye House, Hertfordshire, England
- Rye House Rockets, a speedway team
- Rye House Stadium, greyhound racing and speedway racing stadium
- Rye Meads nature reserve, a Royal Society for the Protection (RSPB) nature reserve in the Lee Valley, Hertfordshire, England
- Rye House, Hertfordshire is a location in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Famous quotes containing the words rye and/or house:
“When as the rye reach to the chin,
And chopcherry, chopcherry ripe within,
Strawberries swimming in the cream,
And school-boys playing in the stream;”
—George Peele (1559–1596)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)