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Há 1 dia · High Sheriff of Kent. The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff ). [ 1] Formerly the high sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been transferred elsewhere or are ...
Há 3 dias · The former almshouses in West Street are noted historic buildings of Kent; they were founded in 1610 by John Southland, an important local magnate, and rebuilt in 1734. Just off the high street are the ruins of St John's Priory , a mediaeval Cistercian Priory founded in the 13th Century.
Há 2 dias · Hidden away in a secluded Kent valley, is this perfectly preserved medieval moated manor house. Emerging from the natural landscape almost 700 years ago, Ightham Mote is built from Kentish ragstone and great Wealden oaks.
Há 5 dias · THE ISLAND OF SHEPEY is separated from the rest of the county of Kent by a narrow arm of the sea, called the Swale. It is not certain by what name it was known to the Romans. Ptolemy, in his geography, mentions two islands in this part of Britain, which he calls Toliapis and Counus .
Há 3 dias · Kent, administrative, geographic, and historic county of England, lying at the southeastern extremity of Great Britain. It is bordered to the southwest by East Sussex, to the west by Surrey, to the northwest by Greater London, to the north by the Thames estuary, to the northeast by the North Sea,
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Há 2 dias · SMEETH. LIES the next parish to Mersham eastward, being antiently written, and now usually called Smede, a name signifying an open smooth plain, and king Offa in 791, gave the pasture for fifty hogs binnam Smede, i. e. within Smede, to the church of Canterbury.
Há 3 dias · KINGSNOTH, THE next parish south-eastward is Kingsnoth, sometimes called Kingsnode, and by Leland written Kinges-snode. THIS PARISH is so obscurely situated as to be but little known, the soil in it is throughout a deep miry clay; it is much interspersed with woodlands, especially in the south-east part of it, the whole face of the country here ...
