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  2. Romney Marsh - Wikipedia

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    In 1250 and in the following years, a series of violent storms broke through the coastal shingle banks, flooding significant areas and returning it to marsh, and destroying the harbour at New Romney. In 1287, water destroyed the port town of Old Winchelsea (now located some 2 mi (3 km) out in Rye bay), which had been endangered because of its ...

  3. South England flood of February 1287 - Wikipedia

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    The town of Winchelsea on Romney Marsh was destroyed (later rebuilt on the clifftop behind). [1] Nearby Broomhill was also destroyed. The course of the nearby River Rother was diverted away from New Romney , which was almost destroyed and left a mile from the coast, ending its role as a port.

  4. Rumney Marsh Reservation - Wikipedia

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    Rumney Marsh Reservation is a Massachusetts state park occupying over 600 acres (240 ha) in the town of Saugus and city of Revere.The salt marsh is located within the Saugus and Pines River estuary and provides habitat for many different migratory birds and marine life.

  5. Romney Marshes Area IDB - Wikipedia

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    Romney Marsh: Evolution, Occupation, Reclamation. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology. ISBN 978-0-947816-24-7. Eddison, Jill (2000). Romney Marsh: Survival on a frontier. History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-1486-7. Tatton-Brown, Tim (1988). The Topography of the Walland Marsh area between the 11th and 13th Centuries. In Eddison & Green 1988

  6. Rye Harbour SSSI - Wikipedia

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    Rye Harbour Site of Special Scientific Interest is a nature reserve located on the western side of the mouth of the River Rother at Rye Harbour, about 1 mile downstream from Rye East Sussex. It forms part of a wide network of SSSI's on the Kent-Sussex border that include the Romney & Walland Marsh, the Dungeness Peninsula, the lower Rother ...

  7. Hope Church of All Saints - Wikipedia

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    It was still in use in 1543, but had fallen into decay by 1573; [2] [3] the bells were removed to the Church of St Nicholas at New Romney. [4] Hope Church was recorded as ruinous in 1663. [2] There have been surface finds of medieval objects near the site, including coins from the 11th to the 13th century.

  8. Isle of Oxney - Wikipedia

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    Up to the 13th century, the island was part of the coastline bordering what is now the Romney Marsh. [1] As that silted up, and until the later 17th century, the River Rother which enters the sea beyond Rye and flowed across Kent in a west–east direction, was in a channel to the north of the island. By the late 17th century, the river had ...

  9. Brookland, Kent - Wikipedia

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    Brookland is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England, about 5 miles (8 km) west of New Romney.According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 453, increasing to 479 at the 2011 Census. [1]