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Caption For Holmbury St Mary, Post Office Corner 1906

At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.

Caption For Cliffe, Oast Houses C1955

Scenes like this, so typical of rural Kent, became rare after the mid-century decline of hop growing made hundreds of oast houses ripe for conversion.

Caption For Newmarket, High Street C1955

The Rutland Arms Hotel, designed by John Kent, was built in 1815 on the site of the Ram Inn.

Caption For Pegwell, Coastguard Cottages 1907

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

Caption For London, Chelsea Embankment 1890

These old vessels were vital carriers of coal, fruit, vegetables and building materials from Kent, Essex and other east-coast ports.

Caption For Lamberhurst, The Village Bridge And Broadway C1960

Nearby is Scotney Castle, owned at this time by one of the Hussey family, historic ironmasters of Kent.

Caption For Milton Regis, High Street C1955

Indeed, it is known as the Middleton of Alfred the Great, and its flint and stone Holy Trinity Church is the second oldest in Kent. A

Caption For Paddock Wood, Measuring The Hops C1950

This village was the hop picking 'capital' of Kent.

Caption For Allithwaite, Kirkhead Tower C1965

The Beach 1894 Two youngsters are digging for shrimps in the sands of the beach at Arnside, where the River Kent enters Morecambe Bay, while in the background three adults sit on the seawall.

Caption For Biddenden, The Village C1960

Today, Biddenden cider can be enjoyed in most Kent pubs.

Caption For Minster In Thanet, The Square C1955

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

Caption For Eynsford, The Church 1905

The village of Eynsford was once home to a well known man of Kent, the writer and historian Arthur Mee.

Caption For Ash, The Village C1965

Ash is one of the places in Kent rumoured somewhere to conceal a four-feet-tall effigy of a man in solid gold, a treasure that had belonged to one of the early Saxon Kings, according to legend.

Caption For Hythe, Cricket Ground 1899

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

Caption For Aylesford, Kits Coty House 1898

To the west of the A229 is Kent's most famous Neolithic burial chamber.

Caption For Sittingbourne, High Street C1960

It is early morning or a summer's evening in this significant mid-Kent town.

Caption For Kendal, Stricklandgate 1888

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.

Caption For Aylesford, Village From The River C1960

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons.

Caption For Hartfield, 1906

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.

Caption For Eythorne, Chapel Hill C1955

Along with its neighbouring villages of Betteshanger and Tilmanstone, this settlement was a centre of the short-lived Kent coal industry, which began when coal was discovered when borings for a proposed