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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.

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

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.

At the bottom of Maidstone High Street both the Queen's Head public house, on the left, and the Rose and Crown Hotel across the road have gone; the trolleybuses also went in 1966.

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.

During the first half of the 20th century, whole families from the poorer parts of London travelled down to the hop picking areas of Kent for a week or two's 'holiday' whilst earning money hop picking

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.

In the 1920s Silverdale village was left high and dry, for the River Kent changed course. Before that steamers called here.

One of Kent's oldest townships, Charing was taken from Canterbury by the King of Mercia in 757 and assigned to some of his favourites.

Chiddingstone is often claimed to be the most attractive village in Kent. Wild boar once roamed the surrounding countryside, and are commemorated here in the names of Boar?Place and Boreshill.

Medway, and is another contender for the 'most attractive village in Kent' title. Certainly it seems very well planned around its spacious central green with its mature chestnut trees.

Kent, crossing two rivers over 150 yards. This photograph was taken on a summer's day, when the river was low.

Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.

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.

Beneath a clump of trees near Aylesford, Kent, is a confused group of sarsen stones, some twenty in number, which probably formed a Neolithic burial chamber 5,000 years ago.

The abbey was founded in AD670 as a nunnery by Sexburga, widow of Ercombert, King of Kent; the original building was burnt by the Danes.

Central Kent

These tall conical tiled roofs are found all over Kent and Sussex in the hop growing regions.

Towcester has a long history, initially as a Roman fort and town called 'Lactodorum' located on the route the Anglo-Saxons called Watling Street which ran from Richborough in Kent to Shropshire.

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

Its 18th-century picturesque naturalistic park, designed by Bridgeman, Kent and Capability Brown, is dotted with Georgian temples, columns and garden buildings.

This was the largest of three fortresses built by Henry VIII in 1538 to protect this stretch of Kent coast against the threat of invasion by Francois I of France.

Francis Frith's Kent Aylesford Aylesford is a perfectly sited village by the River Medway and the scene of many battles in ancient times.