The Kentish Coast

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CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE KENTISH COAST

CHAPTER I DEPTFORD AND PETER THE GREAT

CHAPTER II GREENWICH THE ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE "FUBBS

CHAPTER III STONE GREENHITHE NORTHFLEET HUGGENS'S

CHAPTER IV ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM BROMPTON GILLINGHAM GRANGE OTTERHAM QUAY LOWER HALSTOW IWADE

CHAPTER V SHEPPEY

CHAPTER VI THE CAPTURE OF JAMES THE SECOND FAVERSHAM

CHAPTER VII MILTON-NEXT-SITTINGBOURNE SITTINGBOURNE OLD INNS MURSTON LUDDENHAM

CHAPTER VIII GOODNESTONE GRAVENEY SEASALTER WHITSTABLE AND THE OYSTER FISHERY

CHAPTER IX HERNE BAY RECULVER WANTSUM SARRE

CHAPTER X THANET'S CORNFIELDS MONKTON MINSTER-IN-THANET BIRCHINGTON QUEX PARK WESTGATE DANDELION.

CHAPTER XI MARGATE

CHAPTER XII KINGSGATE THE NORTH FORELAND BROADSTAIRS ST. PETER'S

CHAPTER XIII RAMSGATE

CHAPTER XIV PEGWELL BAY EBBSFLEET THE LANDINGS OF HENGIST AND OF ST. AUGUSTINE RICHBOROUGH

CHAPTER XV SANDWICH

CHAPTER XVI WORTH UPPER DEAL DEAL THE GOODWIN SANDS

CHAPTER XVII THE DOWNS AND THE DEAL BOATMEN

CHAPTER XVIII WALMER CASTLE KINGSDOWN ST. MARGARET'S BAY

CHAPTER XIX DOVER THE CASTLE AND ROMAN PHAROS "QUEEN ELIZABETH'S POCKET-PISTOL" THE WESTERN HEIGHTS

CHAPTER XX THE CHANNEL PASSAGE THE NATIONAL HARBOUR AND ITS

CHAPTER XXI SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF SAMPHIRE THE CHANNEL TUNNEL COAL IN KENT THE WARREN

CHAPTER XXII FOLKESTONE THE OLD TOWN AND THE NEW DICKENS AND "PAVILIONSTONE" SANDGATE

CHAPTER XXIII SHORNCLIFFE CAMP THE ROYAL MILITARY

CHAPTER XXIV NEW ROMNEY SMUGGLING DAYS BROOKLAND FAIRFIELD SMALLHYTHE

CHAPTER XXV LYDD DUNGENESS CAMBER-ON-SEA

INDEX

Transcriber's Notes

WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER

The Portsmouth Road, and its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old.

The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike.

The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway.

The Exeter Road: The Story of the West of England Highway.

The Great North Road: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols.

The Norwich Road: An East Anglian Highway.

The Holyhead Road: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols.

The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road: The Great Fenland Highway.

The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike.

The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols.

The Brighton Road: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway.

The Hastings Road and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.”

Cycle Rides Round London.

A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.

Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore. Two Vols.

The Ingoldsby Country: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.”

The Hardy Country: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels.

The Dorset Coast.

The South Devon Coast.

The Old Inns of England. Two Vols.

Love in the Harbour: a Longshore Comedy.

Rural Nooks Round London (Middlesex and Surrey).

Haunted Houses; Tales of the Supernatural.

The Manchester and Glasgow Road. This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols.

The North Devon Coast.

Half-Hours with the Highwaymen. Two Vols.

The Autocar Road Book.

The Somerset Coast.

The Cornish Coast. North.

The Cornish Coast. South.

Thames Valley Villages

The Shakespeare Country.

The Sussex Coast.

[In the Press.

DOVER CASTLE: THE WHITE CLIFFS OF ALBION.

THE
KENTISH COAST

BY
CHARLES G. HARPER

“Kent, in the commentaries CÆsar writ,
Is termed the civil’st place of all this isle:
Sweet is the country, because full of riches;
The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy.”
King Henry the Sixth (Second Part).

London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Ltd.
1914


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