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Caption For Hadleigh, The Castle 1891

Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

Caption For Glastonbury, The Abbey Barn 1896

This splendid six-bay stone building has the symbols of the Four Evangelists in the gables and wagon porches.

Caption For Aylesford, The Church C1960

This view emphasises the fine proportions of the church, with its west tower of ragstone, together with its stair turret.

Caption For Aylesford, The Almshouses C1960

Built in ragstone, these pleasant cottages with dormers were restored in about 1842.

Caption For Hawkhurst, St Laurence's Church 1902

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

Caption For Edenbridge, High Street 1906

The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Caption For Boston Spa, Fairseat House And Tadcaster Road C1955

The Big Stone is a glacial erratic left on the moorland near Boston Spa.

Caption For Castor, Allotment Lane C1955

The terrace of cottages in Allotment Lane has ragstone walls and a brick main façade; there is a low pediment at the centre with an arched window.

Caption For Worbarrow, Sea Cottage 1972

Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.

Caption For Hadleigh, The Castle 1891

Kentish Ragstone was brought across the River Thames for the construction.

Caption For Plaxtol, The Village C1960

Commissioned by Archbishop Laud, the ragstone church stands at the centre of this lovely village, and according to an inscription over the porch's inner door it was originally built in 1649.

Caption For Teston, Orchard Stores Corner C1960

To reach this village one can cross a medieval ragstone bridge across the River Medway.

Caption For Edgware, St Margarets Parish Church 1954

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

Caption For Ashford, The Parish Church C1965

Said to be one of the finest town churches in Kent, the parish church is built of Kentish ragstone and has an impressive interior.

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Ivy Hatch, The Village 1901

Dunk's Green 1901 Some fine stone and brick cottages and an oast house stand along the road leading towards Mereworth Woods near the village centre of Plaxtol, on the edge of the Ragstone Ridge

Caption For Edenbridge, High Street 1906

The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Caption For Egerton, George Inn C1960

The church is 15th-century and built of Kentish ragstone, and its gargoyled tower is a landmark for miles around.

Caption For Crouch End, Christ Church, Crouch End Hill C1965

Although the exterior is faced in Kentish ragstone, the interior is of somewhat more mundane brick.

Caption For Holbeach, High Street C1955

Hanson's Bakery is beyond in the shop that was Bayston's, who were farmers, purveyors of meat, bakers and confectioners.