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Kent was traditionally partitioned into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds. The traditional border of East and West Kent was the county's main river, the Medway. Men and women from east of the Medway are Men (or Maids) of Kent, those from the west are Kentishmen or Kentish Maids. [16]
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The Domesday Survey mentions 44 hundreds in Hampshire, [23] recorded as HanteScire and abbreviated as Hante. [24] By the 14th century the number had been reduced to 37. The hundreds of East Medina and West Medina in the Isle of Wight are mentioned in 1316. The Isle of Wight obtained a county council of its own in 1890 and became a full ...
After the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, the area now known as England became divided into seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex. A number of other smaller political divisions and sub-kingdoms existed.
Kent derives from the Kingdom of Kent, Surrey from the Anglian word for 'southern region', [27] and Essex, Sussex and Middlesex come from the East Saxons, South Saxons and Middle Saxons. Norfolk and Suffolk were subdivisions representing the "North Folk" and "South Folk" of the Kingdom of East Anglia .
View south across the Weald of Kent as seen from the North Downs Way near Detling. The Weald (/ ˈ w iː l d /) is an area of South East England between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs. It crosses the counties of Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, and Kent.
Map of Kent, UK with districts shown. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160% Geographic limits: West: 0.01E; East: 1.47E; North: 51.52N; South: 50.88N; Date: 17 July 2010: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData. Most data from Boundary-Line product. Lake data from Meridian 2 product. Inset derived from England ...
The major geographical features of the county are determined by a series of ridges running from west to east across the county. These ridges are the remains of the Wealden dome, a denuded anticline across Kent, Surrey and Sussex, which was the result of uplifting caused by the Alpine movements between 10-20 million years ago.