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Kent is synonymous with the growing of hops.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

The town of Kendal was founded on the west bank of the River Kent, although the earliest settlement around the castle was on the east bank.

In many villages in Kent are the great gardens and oast-houses devoted to the growing and processing of the hop, which gives beer its taste.

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

It is known as 'the barn of Kent' because of the width of its aisleless nave and the timber scissor-beam roof.

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

The routes across the sands from Hest Bank and Arnside come here to Kents Bank.

In the churchyard lies the eminent Victorian biologist William Saville Kent, who died in 1908, his grave covered with an array of fossilised sponges.

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.

Flookburgh, a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands, takes its name from Floki, the name of a Norse settler.

Note the weatherboarded houses, so typical of Kent.

It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

A typical village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the

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

The county runs out here: the roads from Dormansland lead a short way to the border with either Kent or Sussex.

It teems with traffic, and it is the County Town of Kent. A

Stramongate Bridge was also known as Miller or Mill Bridge, because it linked the mills on the eastern bank of the River Kent to the 'Auld Grey Town' on the other bank.

The west window was given by Queen Victoria in memory of her father the Duke of Kent, who died in Sidmouth in 1820.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway.

Who can fault this lovely view of typical rural Kent?

The George Hotel, right, and the tobacconist and the teashop pictured nearby shared the village with Kent's smallest pub, the Little Gem.