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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.

Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes

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.

Flookburgh is a charming and ancient market town between the Kent Estuary and Cartmel Sands. It was renowned for its cockle gatherers and fishing for flukes, or flat fish, in the estuary.

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

Once known as 'Coveshoo', Cliffe was a meeting place for the Great Councils of Kent in Saxon times.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

Flimwell is centred on a crossroads near the Kent border. Its church, St Augustine's, was built in 1873.

Nearby was once the royal palace of the early Saxon kings of Kent. There is also an underground labyrinth of caves.

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

The Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was an early visitor. His grandson, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, stayed here on a boyhood walking tour with his tutor.

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

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. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.

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!

The 13th-century church of St Nicholas is one of several of its kind presiding over the villages of east Kent.

During the Second World War, the Kent-born film director Michael Powell and his Archers production company featured the town and its oak beamed houses in his famous propaganda epic, 'A Canterbury Tale'

Today, the village and its Tudor buildings is one of Kent's largest and busiest on the A20 road to Maidstone and Ashford.

As its name implies, this small town is the westernmost in Kent, almost on the border with Surrey.