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Há 4 dias · The current meaning of Cockney comes from its use among rural Englishmen (attested in 1520) as a pejorative term for effeminate town-dwellers, from an earlier general sense (encountered in "The Reeve's Tale" of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales c. 1386) of a "cokenay" as "a child tenderly brought up" and, by extension, "an ...
Há 4 dias · Maidstone, town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It is located astride the River Medway, 38 miles (61 km) southeast of London. The largely rural borough surrounding the town covers a large area of central Kent. The name Maidstone is derived.
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Há 4 dias · For a more rounded picture it is probably necessary to engage in studies of particular communities - the kind of study which Reay himself, in his Microhistories: demography, society, and culture in rural England, 1800-1930 (1996), has so notably carried out for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for an area of rural Kent almost ...
Há 2 dias · The centre and south-west of the county are rural. For local government purposes Hampshire comprises a non-metropolitan county , with eleven districts, and two unitary authority areas: Portsmouth and Southampton.
Há 5 dias · Of the many magical places in Kent, these are the top eight historical locations that are worth a visit on an English summer’s day. 1. Learn About the Role of Dover Castle in Britain’s Military & Royal History. Dover Castle, 2022. Source: Herman.vandenbroeck, Wikimedia Commons.
Há 1 dia · Fresh calls for the Elizabeth line to be extended into Kent have been made by several London councils, who argue the scheme is “vital to catalysing housing and employment opportunities”. In south-east London, the line currently only extends as far as Abbey Wood – in zone 4 – but a potential route further out into Ebbsfleet and Gravesend in Kent was ‘safeguarded’ by an Act of ...
Há 2 dias · A surprising number of U.S. counties have 100% rural land-702, in fact. Stacker compiled a list of the most rural counties in Rhode Island using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.Counties are ...
