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CHAP. PAGE
I. INTRODUCTORY 1
II. BARHAM: THE AUTHOR OF THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS 7
III. CANTERBURY 28
IV. THE CATHEDRAL: THE MURDER OF BECKET 41
V. TAPPINGTON HALL 63
VI. ROMNEY MARSH 77
VII. ROMNEY MARSH (continued) 98
VIII. OLD AND NEW ROMNEY, AND DYMCHURCH 110
IX. HYTHE AND FOLKESTONE 124
X. FROM HYTHE TO ASHFORD 143
XI. FROM HYTHE TO ASHFORD (continued) 159
XII. THE BACK OF BEYOND 165
XIII. THE BACK OF BEYOND (continued) 181
XIV. THE COASTWISE ROAD: FOLKESTONE TO DOVER AND SANDWICH 192
XV. SANDWICH TO THE VILLE OF SARRE 208
XVI. SARRE AND RECULVER TO CANTERBURY 222
XVII. THE ISLE OF SHEPPEY 233
XVIII. SOME OUTLYING INGOLDSBY LANDMARKS 257


List of Illustrations
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The "Dark Entry," Canterbury, From the Green Court Frontispiece
Sketch Map: The Ingoldsby Country 5
"Tom Ingoldsby:" the Rev. Richard Harris Barham 13
No. 61, Burgate Street, Canterbury Facing 14
St. Mary Magdalene, Burgate Street, Canterbury 15
Westwell 16
The Hall, No. 61, Burgate Street, Canterbury Facing 16
The Barham Coat-of-Arms 18
No. 4, St. Paul's Churchyard 22
Amen Corner, where Barham died.... 24
Ruins of St. Mary Magdalene, after the Fire of December 1886 26
Canterbury Castle 32
The Dane John, Canterbury 34
The Dark Entry 37
" " " 38
"The Martyrdom," Canterbury Cathedral 52
The Vale of Barham 65
The "Eagle Gates," Broome Park 67
Broome Park, the Real Original of Tappington Hall Facing 68
Tappington, from the Folkestone Road 69
Denton Facing 70
Denton Church and Court 71
Tappington Hall 73
The "Merchant's-Mark" of Thomas Marsh of Marston 74
Tappington Hall: Night Facing 74
Warehorne 79
A Sundial, Warehorne Church 81
Warehorne 82
The Royal Military Canal at Warehorne 84
Snargate 100
Brookland 102
Ivychurch 104
Newchurch, on Romney Marsh: "This recondite region; this fifth quarter of the globe" 105
Old Romney 111
New Romney 116
A Martello Tower 119
Dymchurch Wall 121
" " 122
The "Smugglers' Nest," Hythe 127
Hythe, from the Road to Sandgate 128
Folkestone 132
The Stade, Folkestone 135
Folkestone Harbour 137
Folkestone in 1830. After J. M. W. Turner, R.A. Facing 140
Romney Marsh, from Lympne " 144
Lympne Castle 146
A Cottage Tablet, Lympne 147
A Kentish Farm 148
The Ruined Chapel, Court-at-Street 149
An Old Sundial, Aldington 151
Aldington 154
Cobb's Hall 159
Aldington Knoll 160
Bilsington Woods 161
Bilsington Priory 162
Bilsington Church 163
Orlestone Hill 164
Saltwood Castle 169
Westenhanger House 175
Lyminge 182
Lyminge Church 183
Old Houses at Elham 185
Acryse 187
The Preceptory, Swingfield Minnis 190
The "Lone Tree" 197
East Langdon 199
"Marston Hall" 200
The "Three Horseshoes," Great Mongeham 201
St. Peter's, Sandwich 205
The Barbican, Sandwich 209
Sandwich, from Great Stonar 210
Richborough, and the Kentish Coast-line towards Ramsgate 213
The Smuggler's Leap 215
Monkton 217
" 218
The "Ville of Sarre" 220
Chislett 223
Reculver 225
Fordwich 228
Fordwich Town Hall 230
Sturry 232
The Devil's Footprint 234
Minster-in-Sheppey 243
Tomb of Sir Robert de Shurland 245
The Horse-vane, Minster-in-Sheppey 246
The Soul, from a Monument in Minster-in-Sheppey Church 249
The Estuary of the Medway, from the Road near Minster-in-Sheppey 251
Shurland Castle 253
Netley Abbey 261
Salisbury Plain: where the Lavington Road branches off to the left from the one to Devizes 266

The Ingoldsby Country
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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