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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.

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.

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.

Kent Lunatic Asylum was built here, and accommodated 900 patients.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

We are on the upper River Medway north of the Ashdown Forest, near the Kent border.

On the left we can see the long, steeply pitched roof of the Methodist church on Kents Bank Road.

The tower is very prominent in the mid-Kent landscape.

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

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole.

Can you spot the white-bearded man peering out at the photographer from the doors of the Man of Kent pub, right?

A good strong 'Maid of Kent' carries her shopping home, right, while the pedestrians, left, look as if they would rather wait for the bus!

By the late 19th century the Pilgrims' Way through London to Kent had brought many visitors to its doors.

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.

In the early years of the 19th century the impoverished Duke of Kent came to live at Woolbrook Glen.

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.

From here she described the sunsets and the views across the Kent estuary and the Irish Sea.

Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border.

The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor.

It was to this western corner of Sidmouth that the Duke of Kent brought his baby daughter Alexandrina Victoria in 1819.

To the right of this is the Council House, which was opened formally by HRH The Duke of Kent in December 1935.