Portal:Kent
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Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. The county town is Maidstone. The city of Canterbury and Rochester (which was a city
until 1998) have cathedrals.
The county has borders with East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London, and a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames estuary. The area has always had close transport links with Europe through its ports and since 1994 through the Channel Tunnel, it has a nominal border with France halfway along the tunnel.
Kent is known as the "Garden of England" because of its agricultural influence, extensive orchards and hop-gardens. Distinctive oast houses
are common in the countryside, although many have been converted into residential dwellings.
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Wormshill is a small village and civil parish within the Borough of Maidstone in Kent. It lies on a high point of the North Downs roughly 10 miles (16 km) south from The Swale and 11 miles (18 km) north from Maidstone. The villages of Frinsted and Bicknor are approximately 2 miles (3 km) equidistant to the east and west respectively and Hollingbourne, 4 miles (6 km) to the south.
The village has been an agricultural community recorded as far back as the Domesday Book although sources attribute Wormshill's name to the Norse god Woden, suggesting earlier pre-Norman settlement. Today it remains a rural village situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with a population of around 200.
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Brockhill Country Park is dominated by a large grassy valley, bisected by the Brockhill Stream as it makes its way to the Royal Military Canal at Hythe.
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William Harvey (1 April 1578 – 3 June 1657) was a medical doctor, who is credited with being the first to correctly describe, in exact detail, the properties of blood being pumped around the body by the heart. Harvey was born in Folkestone and the nearest main hospital to Folkestone (in Ashford) is named after him.
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Template:/box-header Kent is divided into 12 local authority districts and Medway Unitary Authority.
- Sevenoaks
- Dartford
- Gravesham
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Medway
- Maidstone
- Tunbridge Wells
- Swale
- Ashford
- City of Canterbury
- Shepway
- Thanet
- DoverTemplate:/box-footer
- ...that Charles Davis Lucas, the first person to be awarded the Victoria Cross, is buried in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church in Mereworth, Kent?
- ...that the village of Chiddingstone near Sevenoaks is unique in that with the exception of church and castle it is entirely owned by the National Trust?
- ...that Matthew Webb, the very first person to swim the English Channel, left from Dover in 1875 ?
- ... that the world’s first aircraft factory was opened at Eastchurch on the Isle of Sheppey by the Short Brothers in 1909?
- ... that there were 36 Kings of Kent?
- ... that Herne Bay Pier was the setting for the opening sequence of Ken Russell's first feature film French Dressing?"
On this Day - June 10th
- 1667 - During the Raid on the Medway, the Dutch arrive at the Isle of Sheppey and launch an attack on the incomplete Sheerness Fort.
- 1961 - The last service trains ran on the Hawkhurst Branch LineTemplate:/box-footer
Template:/box-header At the time of the 1831 census, Kent was the 10th largest county, covering 972,240 acres (3,934.5 km2), however by 1871 it had grown to 995,344 acres (4,028.01 km2) and became the 9th largest. Template:/box-footer
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