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Revision as of 14:34, 16 June 2017
By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2013-06-19. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-16.
County description
The Historic Counties Trust describes Kent as follows:
A county more full of history than any other, Kent lies at the southeasternmost point of Britain, and closest to Europe. The famous White Cliffs look out over the Straits of Dover, just 22 miles from the French coast. Kent is therefore the land which has greeted visitors for millennia, whether in war or in peace. Kent's name is also the oldest. It derives from the Cantii, an ancient British tribe known to the Romans long before Caesar. Kent was a British kingdom before the Romans came and after them it soon became a Jutish kingdom. Kent is known as the "Garden of England" for the richness and variety of its arable farming. Hop growing has been the traditional major agriculture of Kent, as the oast houses found throughout the county testify. There is coal mining in the east of the county. The northwest of Kent, from Lewisham and Greenwich out to Bromley, is part of the Metropolitan conurbation, containing a great variety of townscapes. Within this area is Greenwich, home of the Greenwich observatory, the crosshairs of whose telescope define the prime meridian of the world. Until recently Greenwich was the home of the Royal Naval College (still a magnificent building) and its naval heritage is strong. Rural Kent holds a great variety of landscape, from the North Downs, to the delightful Weald, down to the fertile solitudes of Romney, Denge, and Walland Marshes stretching inland from the south coast, and the Isle of Thanet in the northeast. Kent has numerous noteworthy castles, and more modern defensive works along the coast facing Europe. The Cathedral City of Canterbury, where St Augustine established himself in 597, is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England.
Main Towns: Bromley, Canterbury, Chatham, Dover, Folkestone, Greenwich, Lewisham, Maidstone, Orpington, Ramsgate, Rochester, Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells, Whitstable, Woolwich.
Main Rivers: Darent, Medway, Great Stour, Little Stour.
Highlights: Walmer Castle; Knole county house; Royal Greenwich Observatory; Ighton Mote; White Cliffs of Dover; Romney Marsh.
Highest Point: Betsoms Hill, 250.85 m.
Area: 4027.43 m2[1]
Chronology
Unknown century
0 Robin Hood-related place-names whose century of first occurrence is unknown.
All localities
44 place-names and localities.
- Archer Road (St Mary Cray)
- Barnesdale Crescent (St Mary Cray)
- Forest Way (St Mary Cray)
- Friar Road (St Mary Cray)
- Friars Avenue (Walderslade)
- Friars Way (Tunbridge Wells)
- Happy Friar (Tunbridge Wells)
- Hood Avenue (St Mary Cray
- Lincoln Green Road (St Mary Cray)
- Little John Avenue (Walderslade)
- Littlejohn Road (St Mary Cray)
- Lockesley Drive (St Mary Cray)
- Locksley Close (Walderslade)
- Marion Close (Walderslade)
- Marion Crescent (St Mary Cray)
- May Avenue (St Mary Cray)
- Robin Hood (Burham)
- Robin Hood (Deptford)
- Robin Hood (Dover)
- Robin Hood (Ramsgate)
- Robin Hood (St Mary Cray)
- Robin Hood (St Paul's Wood Hill)
- Robin Hood (Tunbridge Wells)
- Robin Hood (Upper Halling)
- Robin Hood and Little John (Bexleyheath)
- Robin Hood and Little John (Deptford Church Street)
- Robin Hood Events (Canterbury)
- Robin Hood Green (St Mary Cray)
- Robin Hood Lane (Bexleyheath)
- Robin Hood Lane (Lower) (Walderslade)
- Robin Hood Lane (Lydd)
- Robin Hood Lane (Walderslade)
- Robin Hood Motor Spares (Orpington)
- Robin Hood Road (St Mary Cray)
- Robin Hood Shaw (St Mary Cray)
- Sheriff Drive (Walderslade)
- Sherwood (Tunbridge Wells) (1)
- Sherwood (Tunbridge Wells) (2)
- Sherwood Avenue (Walderslade)
- Sherwood Library (Tunbridge Wells)
- Sherwood Park (Tunbridge Wells)
- Sherwood Road (St Mary Cray)
- Sherwood Road (Tunbridge Wells)
- Sherwood Way (Tunbridge Wells)
Lists and gazetteers
Background
- British History Online: Victoria County History – Berkshire
- The Historic Counties Trust: Historic Counties Descriptions
- Kent.
Notes
- ↑ The Historic Counties Trust has kindly allowed me to quote its county descriptions in toto. I have converted square miles to km2 and feet to m.