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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.
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 ...
List of settlements in Kent by population; List of civil parishes in Kent; Category:Civil parishes in Kent; Category:Towns in Kent; Category:Villages in Kent; Category:Geography of Kent; List of places in England
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 ...
The Kingdom of the Kentish ( Old English: Cantwara rīce; Latin: Regnum Cantuariorum ), today referred to as the Kingdom of Kent, was an early medieval kingdom in what is now South East England. It existed from either the fifth or the sixth century AD until it was fully absorbed into the Kingdom of Wessex in the late 9th century and later into ...
51°04′26″N 0°46′39″E / . 51.0740°N 0.7774°E. / 51.0740; 0.7774. Woodchurch is a Kent village, the largest civil parish in the Borough of Ashford. It is centred 6 miles (9.7 km) from the market town of Ashford and 4 miles (6 km) from the Cinque Ports town of Tenterden, in Kent, South East England . The windmill that overlooks ...
A lathe ( / ˈleɪð /; Old English: lǽð; Latin: lestus) formed an administrative country subdivision of the county of Kent, England, from the Anglo-Saxon period, until it fell out of general practical use in the early twentieth century. Etymologically, the word lathe may derive from a Proto-Germanic root meaning "land" or "landed possession ...
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others. They are alternatively known as ancient counties, [ 2][ 3] traditional counties, [ 4] former counties[ 5][ 6] or simply as counties. [ 7]