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Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.
The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor.
It was to this western corner of Sidmouth that the Duke of Kent brought his baby daughter Alexandrina Victoria in 1819.
To the right of this is the Council House, which was opened formally by HRH The Duke of Kent in December 1935.
The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.
During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'
Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.
As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.
This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.
At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.
Chiddingstone is often claimed to be the most attractive village in Kent.
Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title.
Kent, crossing two rivers over 150 yards.
Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.
Similarly, there is no indication of industrial activity; until the 19th century, this was a dominant feature of Staveley, with bobbin and other mills lining the banks of the River Kent.
Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.
During the first half of the 20th century, whole families from the poorer parts of London travelled down to the hop picking areas of Kent for a week or two's 'holiday' whilst earning money hop picking
One of Kent's oldest townships, Charing was taken from Canterbury by the King of Mercia in 757 and assigned to some of his favourites.
In the 1920s Silverdale village was left high and dry, for the River Kent changed course.
The Town of Kendal Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent— was founded on the wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep.
