In the 1190s Rye joined the Cinque Ports federation, a group of Kent and Sussex ports that provided ships for the King's navy in return for enormous privileges.
Until the railway arrived, only 35 years before this photograph was taken, Grange-over-Sands was little more than a fishing village, looking out across the Kent estuary to the rest of Lancashire.
The river flowing beneath the 15th-century bridge is the Darent, which rises near the county boundary with Surrey near Westerham and runs through a myriad of Kent villages to the Thames near Long-reach
Near the cliffs in the distance are the remains of the castle built
by Henry VIII in 1539 as part of his coastal defensive scheme; it is one of the four he constructed in Kent.
Near the cliffs in the distance are the remains of the castle built
by Henry VIII in 1539 as part of his coastal defensive scheme; it is one of the four he constructed in Kent.
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