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Its architecture is deemed modern compared to many other Kent places of worship that began life in Norman times.

The No 142 bus, advertising Kent Life magazine, is bound for Weeds Wood via Huntsman's Corner.

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.

This village was the hop picking 'capital' of Kent. At one time, every September hordes of workers with their families would arrive and camp out for the season.

As the county and assize town of Kent, as well as its chief agricultural centre, Maidstone is also a busy market and shopping centre, and many of its older buildings are overshadowed by the commercial

This row of diminutive, white cottages provided accommodation for the Coastguards maintaining a watch along this busy stretch of the Kent coastline with its treacherous offshore sandbanks.

The twin Italianate towers of St George's Church dominate this view of Kendal, across the River Kent and its weir.

boating pool from the pier.The clock-tower is just to the right of the centre of the picture, and we can see the entrance tower to the Dreamland amusement park.This is the oldest theme park in Kent

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

On the left are the flower-bedecked premises of the seed merchants and nurserymen Kent & Brydon.

The name comes from the fact that the opening was carried out in 1833 by the Duchess of Kent and Princess, later Queen, Victoria. Its pavilion was added in 1894.

This view captures well the character of much of the Thames estuary: a somewhat bleak, flat shoreline and a smudge of distant chalk hills on the Kent side.

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep. Stricklandgate, the northern extension of Highgate, is one of Kendal's main thoroughfares.

Along with its neighbouring villages of Betteshanger and Tilmanstone, this settlement was a centre of the short-lived Kent coal industry, which began when coal was discovered when borings for a proposed

One of Kent's most ancient villages, Aylesford occupies a strategic crossing of the Medway, and dates from the time of the Saxons. The parish church crowns a hillock and is principally Norman.

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.

It is early morning or a summer's evening in this significant mid-Kent town. A good selection of traders line the left side of the street, including W J Dolding & Son and a bakery.

Before modern road surfaces spread to the countryside, Bethersden had the reputation of having the worst, most boggy roads in Kent.

This is one of a cluster of collieries which opened in east Kent just before the First World War. Villagers also found work at nearby Snowdown and Tilmanstone.

Morris dancers are recorded as greeting Charles II in Kent on his return from exile.

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.

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 newly installed railway connection serving the Weald of Kent had no doubt dropped many of these workers off to start work in the hop fields.

Meanwhile, local schoolboy Michael Colin Cowdrey, 17, made his debut for Kent County Cricket Club in this year.