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The summer of this year is on record as being suffocatingly hot, and this village, like most in Kent, suffered from a completely rainless June and July.

Today this large town by the River Medway looks very different. It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A prison that has housed some of Britain's most notorious criminals is nearby.

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.

Pollarded lime trees line part of the High Street of this village, which can justifiably claim to be one of Kent's prettiest; it duly attracts hordes of visitors during the summer season.

We are keeping to the Kent bank of the Thames Estuary as the river reaches Gravesend, beyond the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge at Dartford.

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.

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

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.

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

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border. The 13th-century church of St Mary is on a knoll in the centre of the village.

Just as they do today, the boys who lived in this historic town - Fordwich is the smallest town in Britain - enjoyed boating on the River Stour which ebbed and flowed between Canterbury and the sea.

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

Leigh stands near the River?Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title.

Hest Bank was the seaward side of the village, right at the southern side of the mouth of the River Kent. At one time, the area was referred to as Slyne with Hest.

Overlooked by the slopes of Box Hill and the sweep of the North Downs, this delightful village acquired its name from the badgers whose setts were by the River Mole.

The River Medway traditionally separates the Men of Kent on its east side from the Kentish Men on the west, but bridges such as this one unite the two 'tribes'.

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.

Twin cataracts cascade down the limestone outcrop before joining together to descend almost gracefully forward and onward to tumble into the river, a thousand feet below.

A stone on the bridge marks the spot where Benjamin Heywood went straight into the river as he returned home on horseback in 1697, and emerged unscathed.

The debris from the spire is said still to lie on the river bed.

A swan cruises on the river as it curves into the east side of the village, running by a municipalised garden of finely-mown grass, and a statutory wooden seat carefully placed under the only tree of consequence

Askham, four miles south of Penrith, is one of the most attractive villages in the former county of Westmorland, and Askham Bridge, spanning the River Lowther, is one of the most graceful structures

In years gone by, the river Parrett carried a large volume of traffic.