Sittingbourne is an industrial town situated in the Swale district of Kent in south east England, 17 miles (27 km) from Canterbury and 45 miles (72 km) from London. The town sits beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient British trackway used by the Romans and the Ango-Saxons and next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey. The town became prominent after the death of Thomas Beckett in 1170, since it provided a convenient resting point on the road from London to Canterbury and Dover.
Population: 41,148
Latitude: 51° 20' 28.61" N
Longitude: 0° 43' 58.15" E
Medway Ports, incorporating the Port of Sheerness and Chatham Docks is part of Peel Ports, the second largest port group in the United Kingdom. The Ports authority is also responsible for the harbour, pilotage and conservancy matters for 27.3 nauti…
A Commissioners' church is an Anglican church in the United Kingdom built with money voted by Parliament as a result of the Church Building Act 1818, and subsequent related Acts. Such churches have been given a number of titles, including "Commissio…
Kit's Coty is a small village on the slopes of Blue Bell Hill between Maidstone and Rochester in the English county of Kent.
Holcombe Manor was built in 1887 as a house by the first mayor of Chatham, George Winch (September 20, 1842 – February 22, 1914), for him and his wife Mary Clarke Bluette to live in. Mary was brought up in the village of Holcombe Rogus, Devon. Winch…
Herne Windmill is a Grade I listed smock mill in Herne, Kent, England that was built in 1781.
The Headcorn & Maidstone Junction Light Railway was a proposed railway in Kent. An Act of Parliament authorised its construction, but only a short branch at Tovil, opened to goods only, was built.
Hadlow Cricket Club was one of the early English cricket clubs, formed in the early to mid eighteenth century.
HVDC Kingsnorth was a high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission system connecting Kingsnorth in Kent to two sites in London. It was at one time the only application of the technology of high voltage direct current transmission for the supply o…
Grove Ferry and Upstreet was a railway station in east Kent.
Great Mill or Ride's Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill just off the High Street in Sheerness, Kent, England that was demolished in 1924, and now has a new smock tower built on it as residential accommodation.
Gravesend West was a railway station on the Gravesend West Line which served Gravesend in Kent. It opened in 1886 and was, for some time, a regular destination for boat trains from London which linked with steamers on the station's pier to ferry pas…
Frittenden Road was a railway station on the Kent and East Sussex Railway which closed in 1954. The wooden station building had been derelict for years was destroyed by fire in October 2003.
Fort Borstal was built as an afterthought from the 1859 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, by convict labour between 1875 and 1885, to hold the high ground southwest of Rochester, South East England. It is of polygonal design and…
East Minster is a disused railway station serving Minster on the Isle of Sheppey.
Downswood is a community in the Borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. It comprises a housing estate situated to the east of Mote Park, and is in the parish of Otham.
Detling Hill is a hill forming part of the North Downs in Kent, north-east of Maidstone, and is situated in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The typical southern escarpment of the North Downs is found here, and produces dramatic vi…
County Square is a shopping centre in Ashford, Kent, England.
Cliffe (TQ 738 748 (51°26′44″N0°30′07″E) was a railway station between Uralite Halt and High Halstow Halt on the Hundred of Hoo Railway in Kent, England.