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Kent. / 51.200°N 0.700°E / 51.200; 0.700. Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe. It borders Essex across the entire estuary of the River Thames to the north; the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover to the south-east; East Sussex to the south-west; Surrey ...
Old Kent Road[ a] is a major thoroughfare in South East London, England, passing through the London Borough of Southwark. It was originally part of an ancient trackway that was paved by the Romans and used by the Anglo-Saxons who named it Wæcelinga Stræt ( Watling Street ). It is now part of the A2, a major road from London to Dover.
Geography of Kent. Geological cross section of Kent, showing how it relates to major towns. Kent is the south-easternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea, and on the south by the Straits of Dover and the English Channel. The continent of Europe is 21 miles across the straits.
The Pilgrims' Way (also Pilgrim's Way or Pilgrims Way) [ a] is the historical route supposedly taken by pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire, England, to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent. This name, of comparatively recent coinage, is applied to a pre-existing ancient trackway dated by archaeological finds to 600–450 BC, but ...
Faversham ( / ˈfævərʃəm /) is a market town in Kent, England, 8 miles (13 km) from Sittingbourne, 48 miles (77 km) from London and 10 miles (16 km) from Canterbury, next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames Estuary. It is close to the A2, which follows an ancient British trackway ...
Prehistoric Kent. Recent excavations and radiometric dating at a Lower Palaeolithic site at the West Gravel Pit, Fordwich, near Canterbury confirmed the presence of early humans in the area between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago during a warming phase ( Marine isotope stage 15 ). [ 1] They may have been Homo heidelbergensis or an early form of ...
England. London. 51°29′N 0°05′E / . 51.49°N 0.09°E. / 51.49; 0.09. Plumstead ward (green) within the Royal Borough of Greenwich (light grey) Plumstead is an area in southeast London, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, England. It is located east of Woolwich .
The A299, better known as the Thanet Way, is a major road of 22 miles (35 km) in the county of Kent, England, and runs from Brenley Corner near Faversham (where it merges into the M2) to Ramsgate via Whitstable and Herne Bay . The road provides access for freight traffic to Ramsgate Harbour, Manston Airport and Thanet Earth, as well as local ...