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The Feast Day of St Wite. Durham: 20 March: Traditional The Feast Day of St Cuthbert. [3] Hampshire: 15 July: 2019 The Feast Day of St Swithun. Designated by Hampshire County Council [4] Huntingdonshire: 25 April: 2002 Huntingdonshire Society [5] Kent: 26 May: Traditional The feast day of Augustine of Canterbury, first Archbishop of Canterbury ...
George Orwell tried his hand at hop-picking at Blest's Farm, somewhere near West Malling, [16] in September 1931, travelling down from London disguised as a tramp.He spent his time living in a Hopper Hut made of tin (corrugated iron), thus discovering that fruit and hop picking was not quite the idyllic life described by many scholars and writers of the time.
In 2019, the Society celebrated the 90th Kent County Show, with a visit from their Patron, HRH the Duke of Kent, KG on Friday 5 July, taking particular interest in the heritage vehicle display, Kent farriers, livestock and the young farmers who compete across all three days. He also planted a tree in the Woodland Area to commemorate the 90th Show.
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The River Beult north-east of Paddock Wood Kent is a county in the south-eastern corner of England. It is bounded to the north by Greater London and the Thames Estuary, to the west by Sussex and Surrey, and to the south and east by the English Channel and the North Sea. The county town is Maidstone. It is governed by Kent County Council, with twelve district councils, Ashford, Canterbury ...
Several others, including the earls of Northumberland and Shrewsbury and the Bishop of Coutances, came out in support of Robert. Odo prepared Rochester Castle for war and it became one of the headquarters of the rebellion. Its position in Kent made it a suitable base for raids on London and its garrison could harry William's forces in the county.
This list of museums in Kent, England contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Minster Abbey is the name of two abbeys in Minster-in-Thanet, Kent, England. The first was a 7th-century foundation which lasted until the Dissolution of the Monasteries . Beside its ruins is St Mildred's Priory , a Benedictine community of women founded in 1937.