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How to use kent in a sentence

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The manager of Lloyds TSB in Bothwell Street will also be coming to work here so that the Lloyds connections don't feel they have lost a weel kent face.
Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner, as weel's the horses.... I kent fin ye wis in sic a binner 'it a' wisna richt.
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz applauds the CDC investigators for straying off-message.
Exploring the pangs of this tumultuous relationship is what most attracted Kent to this project.
Originally the East Kent Railway in 1858, it linked the northeast Kent coast with London terminals at Victoria and Blackfriars.
The clubs and counties represented were Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and London.
Kent batted first and made 37 to which Hambledon replied with 92, including 75 by John Small.
In their second innings, Kent scored 102, leaving Hambledon a target of 48 to win.
However, in 2003, All England Club president Prince Edward, Duke of Kent decided to discontinue the tradition.
When the Normans entered Ireland and saw the Irish practice they called it Gavelkind, the Jute inheritance in Kent to which it seemed similar.
Wihtred of Kent died in 725, and Ine of Wessex, one of the most formidable rulers of his day, abdicated in 726 to go on a pilgrimage to Rome.
Kent had a long tradition of joint kingship, with east and west Kent under separate kings, though one king was typically dominant.
Charters from the next two years mention other kings of Kent, including Sigered, Eanmund and Heahberht.
In 764, Offa granted land at Rochester in his own name, with Heahberht on the witness list as king of Kent.
Offa's influence in Kent at this time is clear, and it has been suggested that Heahberht was installed by Offa as his client.
There is less agreement among historians on whether Offa had general overlordship of Kent thereafter.
Jaenberht had been a supporter of Ecgberht II of Kent, which may have led to conflict in the 760s when Offa is known to have intervened in Kent.
The marriage brought the manor of Sutton Valence in Kent into Montfort's possession.
The post's official residences are 1 Carlton Gardens in London and Chevening in Kent.
Originally terminating on the city's outskirts at Blackpool, the route now reaches the city centre terminus of Kent Station via Glanmire tunnel.
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Now a through station, the line through Kent connects the towns of Cobh and Midleton east of the city.
These are Cork Kent railway station, Little Island railway station and Glounthaune railway station.
The Cork Suburban Rail system also departs from Kent Station and provides connections to parts of Metropolitan Cork.
Jones was born on 1 November 1895 in Arabin Road, Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, and later lived in nearby Howson Road.
He lived at Westwell House, Tenterden, in Kent, in a house once inhabited by Horatio Nelson's daughter.
Ashford International station was the original station for Eurostar services in Kent.
In 850 Vikings overwintered for the first time in England, on the island of Thanet, Kent.
At Sandwich, Kent the Seabee seawall is buried at the back of the beach under the shingle with crest level at road kerb level.
The first Danish raids into England were in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent during 835 and from there their influence spread north.
In 1945 it reverted to the National Fire Service and in 1948, with the disbandment of the NFS, Kent Fire Brigade took over.
The East Kent coast inspired many of his works, including some of his most famous seascapes.
Kent has also been the home to artists including Frank Auerbach, Tracey Emin and Stass Paraskos.
The name Kent is believed to be of British Celtic origin and was known in Old English as Cent, Cent lond, Centrice.
The early medieval inhabitants of the county were known as the Cantwara, or Kent people.
The second designated English cathedral was in Kent at Rochester Cathedral.
Kent was traditionally partitioned into East and West Kent, and into lathes and hundreds.
In the early 19th century, smugglers were very active on the Kent coastline.
Some of Kent is contiguous with the Greater London sprawl, notably parts of Dartford.
In 1965 the London boroughs of Bromley and Bexley were created from nine towns formerly in Kent.
In 1998, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, and Rainham left the administrative county of Kent to form the Unitary Authority of Medway.
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The most likely reason for this is that in 1086 Hamon, dapifer and Sheriff of Kent, owned the manor and, perhaps illegally, annexed it to Kent.
Spanning Dover and Westerham is the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Seismic activity has occasionally been recorded in Kent, though the epicentres were offshore.
The epicentre was in the Sandwich area of east Kent at a depth of some ten miles from the surface.
The coastline of Kent is continuously changing, due to tectonic uplift and coastal erosion.
The tables below provide statistics for the administrative county of Kent, that is, excluding Medway.
Kent County Council's headquarters are in Maidstone, while Medway's offices are at Gun Wharf, Chatham.
At the 2013 county council elections, control of Kent County Council was held by the Conservatives, which won 44 of the council's 83 seats.
Kent is in the European Parliament constituency of South East England, which elects ten members of the European Parliament.
Twenty eight survive within the county today, plus two replica mills and a further two in that part of Kent now absorbed into London.
Turner spent part of his childhood in the town of Margate in East Kent, and regularly returned to visit it throughout his life.
This is believed to be the result of Kent being a front line county during the Napoleonic Wars.
Part of the M25 runs through Kent, from Westerham to the Kent and Essex tunnel at Dartford.
There are also branch campuses in Augusta, Farmington, Fort Kent, Machias, and Presque Isle.
The railways were privatised in 1996 and most Kent passenger services were franchised to Connex South Eastern.
A new station, Ebbsfleet International, opened between Dartford and Gravesend, serving northern Kent.
Together, the two Kent authorities have 38 of the 164 grammar schools remaining in Britain.
Kent County Council has the largest education department of any local council in Britain, providing school places for over 289,000 pupils.
Cricket has traditionally been a popular sport in the county and Kent is considered one of the locations in which the game first developed.
Much of Kent is served by the BBC's South East region, which is based in Tunbridge Wells and provides local news for the county and East Sussex.
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Deal Radio is an online radio station created for the East Kent communities in and around the town of Deal.
The KM Group, KOS Media and Kent Regional News and Media all provide local newspapers for most of the large towns and cities.
Unfortunately for John, his fleet was dispersed by bad storms and Louis landed unopposed in Kent.
He landed successfully in Kent at the Duke of York's Royal Military School.
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.
Ramsgate was a member of the Confederation of Cinque Ports, under the 'Limb' of Sandwich, Kent.
The location near the Kent coast gave Manston some advantages over the other previously established aerodromes.
Ramsgate Maritime Museum near the harbour quayside has exhibits showing the evolution of Ramsgate Harbour and east Kent maritime history.
The town is situated directly under the flight path of Kent International Airport at Manston.
The attached map of Kent in the book shows two of the heroes in difficulties at Pegwell Bay.
Originally a town in Kent, it has been part of the London metropolitan area since the 19th century.
Cherries were introduced into England at Teynham, near Sittingbourne in Kent, by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.
It was probably introduced into Britain in the Tudor period by 1500 and was first recorded in the wild in 1632 in Kent.
He then joined the teaching profession with a job in a primary school in Kent.
He gained control of Surrey and the kingdom of Kent, and in 686 he installed his brother, Mul, as king of Kent.
He also invaded Kent, in 686, and may have founded a monastery at Hoo, northeast of Rochester, between the Medway and the Thames.
He installed his brother, Mul, as king of Kent, in place of its king Eadric.
In March 1513 a contest was arranged off The Downs, west of Kent, in which she raced against nine other ships.
These Greensand Ridges are popular long distance walking routes, for instance the Greensand Way in Kent.
His debut in that format came during the 2010 Friends Provident t20 against Kent.
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Hampshire is used in a team name for the first time in August 1729, when a combined Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex XI played against Kent.
In the final at Lord's they beat Kent by 41 runs, including 90 runs from Robin Smith and three wickets each from Malcolm Marshall and Shaun Udal.
In July 2008 the ground hosted the Twenty20 Cup final, with Middlesex defeating Kent by 3 runs in the final.
They were convicted and sent to the Buffs' Home Counties Brigade Depot jail in Canterbury, Kent.
One myth was that it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
Until about 1900, most art was the work of visiting artists, who included members of the Group of Seven, Rockwell Kent, and Eliot O'Hara.
Of the refugees who arrived on the Kent coast, many gravitated towards Canterbury, then the county's Calvinist hub.
Part of Mercia and all of Kent were successfully defended but were then integrated into Wessex.
Estuary English can be heard from some people in London, north Surrey, Kent, south Hertfordshire and Essex.
During the 19th century distinct dialects of English were recorded in Sussex, Surrey and Kent.
This was the first conference to be held on the campus of the University of Kent at Canterbury where every subsequent conference has been held.
When Quebec split into Lower and Upper Canada in 1791, Michigan was part of Kent County, Upper Canada.
Coverage of the system is broad within northern New Castle County with close association to major highways in Kent and Sussex counties.
The Dukes of Gloucester and Kent had both inherited their titles from their fathers, the first dukes.
It had an extensive standard gauge internal railway system, and this was connected to the North Kent Line just beyond Plumstead railway station.
In 1848, William moved south to Northfleet, in Kent, where inexhaustible supplies of soft chalk were available.
Its length has only been exceeded by two other canal tunnels, at Standedge in the Pennines and at Strood in Kent.
The village is strategically placed at the junction of the rivers Kent and Gowan, at the mouth of the Kentmere Valley.
On its way to Manchester, the aqueduct passes under the River Kent at Staveley.
There are proposals to extend the conservation area across the River Kent to include a garden designed by Thomas Mawson.
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The River Kent, which gives Kendal its name, begins from Hall Cove, a corrie at the head of the valley, before flowing through the reservoir.
The River Kent begins above the reservoir in the heights of Bleathwaite Crag.
The second straddles the Kent further up the valley and is known as Scrogg's Bridge.
Over Staveley and Hugill are also situated within the Kent valley, along with the small settlements of Elfhowe and Browfoot.
The River Kent, which flows south through the town of Kendal before emptying into Morecambe Bay, has its source on High Street's southern slopes.
Kent and Wiltshire, have a considerably more extensive network still available to vehicular users.
At this point Surrey was evidently under Kentish domination, as the abbey was founded under the patronage of King Ecgberht of Kent.
William Collins, a clergyman for the Rosings Estate in Kent owned by Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
So, in Kent, to wrong-take a person is to take him wrong, to misunderstand him, and a ribspare is a spare rib.
The county on which he appears to have made greatest progress in organising his material was Kent.
For the third successive day, and the seventh between the two sides this summer, Kent and Worcestershire yesterday suffered a complete wash-out.
On trips to the country estate in Kent, south of London, Pelham was adept at preventing dragsmen from cutting the luggage from the carriage.
As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.
The area of Greater London has incorporated areas that are part of the historic counties of Middlesex, Kent, Surrey, Essex and Hertfordshire.
It consists of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
The North Downs Line runs from Berkshire then through Surrey to connect with Sussex and Kent.
Much of the Battle of Britain was fought in this region, especially in Kent.
Sir John Herschel, son of the astronomer, from Kent, invented the term photography in 1839, meaning light writing.
William Harvey of Folkestone, in Kent, discovered the circulation of blood.
Portland cement was developed in Northfleet, Kent, by William Aspdin, son of Joseph Aspdin.
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This early Celtic heritage remains today in place names such as Carlisle, Penrith and Eccles, and many river names such as Cocker, Kent and Eden.
The portion of Mercia that was successfully defended, and all of Kent, were then integrated into Wessex under Alfred the Great.
The settlement of Kent is attributed to Jutes, who originated in the land to the north of Angeln.
He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping.
The White Cliffs are at one end of the Kent Downs designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job.
Dio tells us that, by this stage, Cunobelinus was dead, and Togodumnus and Caratacus led the initial resistance to the invasion in Kent.
Afterwards, the pagans held the present areas of Kent, Sussex, Norfolk and Suffolk, and the area around the Humber.
The salients could then be supplied along Watling Street, dividing the invaders into pockets south of the Weald in east Kent and around the Wash.
Considering the early cemeteries of Kent, most relevant finds come from furnished graves with distinctive links to the Continent.
As one of the conditions of her marriage, she brought a bishop named Liudhard with her to Kent.
In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, who was the prior of the Abbey of St Andrew's in Rome, to head the mission to Kent.
Moreover, the Franks appreciated the chance to participate in mission that would extend their influence in Kent.
St Augustine's Cross, a Celtic cross erected in 1884, marks the spot in Ebbsfleet, Thanet, East Kent, where Augustine is said to have landed.
For the first few years of his reign he had to face two strong rival kings, Wihtred of Kent and Ine of Wessex.
Under Egbert, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Essex, and Mercia, along with parts of Dumnonia, were conquered.
However, a war arose in Kent due to a dispute between Hengest and Vortigern's son.
For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.
In East Kent, fifth century cemeteries mostly comprise solely of inhumation burials, with a distinct Kentish character.
This suggests that West Kent at this point was independent of East Kent, and part of the Kingdom of the East Saxons north of the Thames Estuary.
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Textual sources suggest that Kent may have been under Merovingian control for part of this century.
Archaeological evidence suggests that at some point in the sixth century, East Kent annexed West Kent.
In the late seventh century, Kent gradually came to be dominated by Mercia.
Records of Kent following the death of Wihtred in 725 are fragmented and obscure.
By the early 770s, it appears that Offa was attempting to rule Kent directly, and a rebellion followed.
The Ebbsfleet watermill in West Kent, dated to circa 700, also reflects new uses of the landscape.
Offa's eventual successor, Coenwulf, reconquered Kent in 798, however, and installed his brother Cuthred as king.
Kent and southeast England would have been an attractive target because of its wealthy minsters, often located on exposed coastal locations.
Hoards have been found, particularly around the West Kent coast, that might have been wealth hidden from the Vikings.
In 892, when southern England was united under Alfred the Great, Kent was on the brink of disaster.
In 686 the South Saxons attacked Hlothhere, king of Kent, in support of his nephew Eadric, who afterwards became king of Kent.
The earldom of Sussex seems later to have been sometimes combined with that of Kent.
Not long after the failed Danish raid in Kent, Alfred dispatched his fleet to East Anglia.
They entrenched themselves, the larger body at Appledore, Kent, and the lesser, under Hastein, at Milton, also in Kent.
Four legal codes were adopted at Royal Councils in the early 930s at Grately in Hampshire, Exeter, Faversham in Kent, and Thunderfield in Surrey.
Eadred was a son of Edward the Elder by his third marriage, to Eadgifu, daughter of Sigehelm, ealdorman of Kent.
His men caused an affray in Dover, and Edward ordered Godwin as earl of Kent to punish the town's burgesses, but he took their side and refused.
In 1067 rebels in Kent launched an unsuccessful attack on Dover Castle in combination with Eustace II of Boulogne.
The Sandwich copy was rediscovered in early 2015 in a Victorian scrapbook in the town archives of Sandwich, Kent, one of the Cinque Ports.
Canute had his portion from the rest, The which he call'd Canutium, for his hire, Now Cantium, which Kent we commonly inquire.
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In 1450, there was a violent popular revolt in Kent, Jack Cade's Rebellion, which is often seen as the prelude to the Wars of the Roses.
The rebel manifesto, The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, was written under Cade's leadership.
Because of religious persecution during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent.
Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated a Royalist uprising in Kent at the Battle of Maidstone on 1 June.
The Honourable William Pitt, second son of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, was born at Hayes Place in the village of Hayes, Kent.
During a discussion on extending women's right to active suffrage, the Radical Socialist Victoria Kent confronted the Radical Clara Campoamor.
In the early days of August 1921, the Churchills' children were entrusted to a French nursery governess in Kent, Mlle.
Bombsite rubble from Birmingham was used to make runways on US Air Force bases in Kent and Essex in southeast England.
Harrogate, Shropshire and the south coast of Kent are making similar restrictions.
The Cranbrook tune to On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at was written by Thomas Clark, a Kent shoemaker.
The greatest were the 1969 transfers of Farleigh to Surrey and Knockholt to Kent.
This was used in 1969 in the transfers of Knockholt in Bromley to Kent, and of Farleigh and Hooley in Croydon to Surrey.
In Britain, select committees examined the proposal, making history by holding hearings away from Westminster, in Kent.
On 16 September 2003 the prime minister, Tony Blair, opened the first section of High Speed 1, from Folkestone to north Kent.
In the first tier, Kent County Council, Folkestone is divided into three Divisions each returning one County Councillor.
The Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty includes part of the town area.
The convention is a volunteer run event which raising funds for local charities including Academy FM, East Kent Hospitals and Help for Heroes.
Folkestone Cricket Club currently competes in the first division of the Kent Cricket League.
They are found all the way from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent to Fiddler's Island in Oxfordshire.
On the southern bank were the counties of Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent.
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The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.
On 1 April 1974, the city council was abolished, becoming part of the Borough of Medway, a local government district in the county of Kent.
The secondary coastal road, the A259, which began its journey at Folkestone in Kent, joins the A27 here and ends in Havant to the west.
On 8 July 1939 the Duchess of Kent, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark opened Elmdon Airport.
The kings of these small kingdoms issued written Laws, one of earliest of which is that attributed to Ethelbert, king of Kent, ca.
When Edwin died, in about 633, his widow and Paulinus were forced to flee to Kent.
As one of the conditions of her marriage she had brought a bishop named Liudhard with her to Kent as her chaplain.
In 595, Gregory chose Augustine, prior of Gregory's own monastery of St Andrew in Rome, to head the mission to Kent.
The Franks at that time were attempting to extend their influence in Kent, and assisting Augustine's mission furthered that goal.
Another possible site is Lullingstone, in Kent, where a religious site dating to 300 was found underneath an abandoned church.
Following Edwin's death in battle, in either 633 or 634, Paulinus returned to Kent with Edwin's widow and daughter.
Williams argues that it is possible that Augustine introduced the charter into Kent.
Scholars such as Southern and Kent maintain Anselm's honest preference was to remain at Bec.
Wilfrid appears to have spent about a year in Kent, but the exact chronology is uncertain.
He occasionally performed episcopal functions in Mercia and Kent, but never did so north of the river Humber.
Wilfrid may have persuaded King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 to build a church in an abandoned Roman fort at Reculver.
Ripon was the first church in Northumbria to incorporate a porticus, similar to those of churches in Kent.
In the town of Strood, also in Kent, Becket is said to have caused the inhabitants of the town and their descendants to be born with tails.
Kent students can take the test, though generally only those who are expected to pass will do so.
As an example, in Kent, mathematics and writing are each given twice the weighting of verbal reasoning.
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The King's School, Rochester is an English independent school in Rochester, Kent.
It is well laid out by one Brown who has set up on a few ideas of Kent and Mr Southcote.
The library's holdings are included in the online catalogue of the library of the University of Kent.
It was modified and enlarged so much that it extended beyond the boundary of Penge Place, which was also the boundary between Surrey and Kent.
The jargon of the areas is distinguished from that of Kent in certain words.
Many of his close friends were executed and he himself moved to Kent to get away from events in London.
He was probably born into a family which held properties in Kent and Suffolk.
Born at Penshurst Place, Kent, he was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney and Lady Mary Dudley.
Sidney had returned to court by the middle of 1581 and in 1584 was MP for Kent.
After a brief honeymoon in Chalk in Kent the couple returned to lodgings at Furnival's Inn.
In 1856, his income from writing allowed him to buy Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent.
When Orwell was in the sanatorium in Kent, his wife's friend Lydia Jackson visited.
It had retained a strong tradition of wassailing, and seafaring songs were important in the coastal counties of Kent and Hampshire.
From the current crop of young folk musicians probably the most prominent are Spiers and Boden from Oxfordshire and Chris Wood, born in Kent.
Queen Mary granted Tallis a lease on a manor in Kent that provided a comfortable annual income.
Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were childhood friends and classmates in Dartford, Kent, until the Jaggers moved to Wilmington.
In March 1979, Kent used the gothic adjective in his review of Magazine's second album, Secondhand Daylight.
The Weald has its own breed of cattle, called the Sussex although it has been as numerous in Kent and parts of Surrey.
The source says that the game could be called Kent v Sussex as the players were reported as 11 of each county.
Sir William Gage was a Sussex landowner and Edwin Stead was a resident of Maidstone in Kent.
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This clearly implies that Kent was considered to be the champion county at that time.
The most successful county teams were Hampshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex.
In 2011, Warwickshire, Hampshire and Kent were all docked 8 points for poor pitches at Edgbaston, the Rose Bowl and Canterbury respectively.
Yorkshire lost to Gloucestershire by a single run and were overtaken by Kent, who won their last match against Hampshire by an innings.
The floodlights were first used successfully on 27 May 2009 during the Twenty20 Cup match between Middlesex and Kent.
In 2003, however, the President of the All England Club, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, decided to discontinue the tradition.
The trophies are usually presented by the President of the All England Club, The Duke of Kent.
For a while in the 1970s Surtees ran a motorcycle shop in West Wickham, Kent, and a Honda car dealership in Edenbridge, Kent.
Millais painted the picture in Hayes, Kent, from a local oak tree that became known as the Millais Oak.
In the early years of the 7th century, Kent and East Anglia were the leading English kingdoms.
In the summer of 1013, Sven Forkbeard, King of Denmark, brought the Danish fleet to Sandwich, Kent.
On 30 July 1700, Walpole married Catherine, daughter of John Shorter of Bybrook in Ashford, Kent.
The White Cliffs of Dover are at one end of the Kent Downs designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
One of her Oxford friends was also a friend of the Chair of the Dartford Conservative Association in Kent, who were looking for candidates.
This section includes the entire coast of Sussex and the south and east coasts of Kent.
Maugham was sent to the UK to be cared for by his uncle, Henry MacDonald Maugham, the Vicar of Whitstable, in Kent.
On 3 August 1924, Conrad died at his house, Oswalds, in Bishopsbourne, Kent, England, probably of a heart attack.
Presented the Silver Clef Award from Princess Michael of Kent for outstanding contribution to British music.
The works were landscapes around Shoreham, near Sevenoaks in the west of Kent.
Born in Dartford, 25 June 1932, Kent, he was educated at the Gravesend Technical College school of Art, and the Royal College of Art.
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Powell was born in Bekesbourne, Kent, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury and then at Dulwich College.
Later he was permitted to stay away from prison for several days at a time and took to visiting Quaker congregations in Kent.
The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
The leader PNRCMO has come together with the Kent Downs AONB to develop a programme of enhancement and conservation of various natural habitats of the transmanche areas.
An English delftware jug has been found in East Malling, Kent, with a silver mount hallmarked 1550, which is presumed to be the earliest date of manufacture.
To see Nina herself Nick had to crane round the big white bonce of Norman Kent, who was as sensitive to music as he was to conservatives, and kept shifting in his seat.
The most famous of the roods was that of Boxley in Kent, which used to smile and bow, or frown and shake its head, as its worshippers were generous or closehanded.
Superman lives a double life as hero and as the reporter Clark Kent.
Large parts of Kent are within the London commuter belt and its strong transport connections to the capital and the nearby continent makes Kent a high income county.
At the weir by Wilf's Cafe visitors can see water being drawn from the River Kent, which originally powered a waterwheel, replaced in 1902 with turbines.
The custom waxed and waned over the years, but has seen revivals in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and Kent.
Palmer, who was born in Surrey Square off the Old Kent Road in Newington, London, was the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister, and was raised by a pious nurse.
Bede relates that after the mission's arrival in Kent and conversion of the king, they were allowed to restore and rebuild old Roman churches for their use.
It crosses the River Kent on the Nether Bridge and Miller Bridge.
Webb and Morris designed a family home, Red House, then in Kent, where the latter lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London.
The king would have been wary of allowing the Frankish bishop Liudhard to convert him, as that might open Kent up to Frankish claims of overlordship.
Sir Francis Pettit Smith of Kent invented the screw propeller.
Ine appears to have retained control of Surrey, but did not recover Kent.
Cricket was developed as a game for Hampshire and Kent farmers.
Schools in Surrey and Hampshire also have consistently good GCSE results, and they are above average in Oxfordshire, West Sussex, Kent, Medway, and East Sussex.
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Throughout 30 May, Royal Air Force Harriers were active over Mount Kent.
The River Sprint starts on the slopes of Harter Fell and Branstree, and flows south through the valley before joining the River Kent to the north of the town of Kendal.
Some had been converted by the Gregorian mission, a group of Roman missionaries who arrived in Kent in 597 and who mainly influenced southern Britain.
One historian, Charlotte Behr, asserts that the Historia's account of the arrival of the Germanic invaders in Kent should be considered as current myth, not history.
It forms the famous White Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, as well as their counterparts of the Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait.
As the Act of the Six Articles neared passage in Parliament, Cranmer moved his wife and children out of seclusion, probably in Ford Palace in Kent, and out of England.
However, by the middle of the 19th century the Glanville fritillary was known only from the Isle of Wight and the coast of Kent between Folkestone and Sandwich.
No archaeological evidence survives of Druidry, although a number of burials made with ritual trappings and found in Kent may suggest a religious character to the subjects.
They sailed in three divisions, and probably landed at Richborough in Kent, although at least part of the force may have landed near Fishbourne, West Sussex.
He sent to Kent for a singing master to instruct his clergy in the Roman style of church music, which involved a double choir who sang in antiphons and responses.
John the Baptist Barham in Kent and left London to continue his writing.
However, in March 1534, a special Bill of Attainder against Fisher and others for complicity in the matter of the Maid of Kent was introduced in Parliament and passed.
Bus services are provided by Stagecoach East Kent and also serve Broadstairs, Canterbury, Dover, Margate and Manston Airport, Kent's International Airport.
A large number of Frankish artifacts have been found in Kent, and these are largely interpreted to be a reflection of trade and commerce rather than early migration.
In 2001, the Kent Wildlife Trust with the Wildwood Trust and Natural England imported two families of Eurasian beavers from Norway to manage a wetland nature reserve.
This is found in East Kent roughly between Deal, Canterbury, and Dover.
In 2000, Imperial merged with both the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology and Wye College, the University of London's agricultural college in Wye, Kent.
Augustine in Ramsgate, Kent, very close to the mission's landing site.
Following this, Scotland also played Essex and Kent at Hamilton Crescent.
He also built Whitstable harbour in Kent in 1832, in connection with the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway with an unusual system for flushing out mud using a tidal reservoir.
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Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich bay, between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent.
He was born at Rochester, Kent, the fifth son of the late John Longley, Recorder of Rochester, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.
After committing a robbery in Kent in 1676, William Nevison apparently rode to York to establish an alibi, and Defoe's account of that journey became part of folk legend.
It has been argued that an East Saxon community initially settled West Kent, before being conquered by the expanding East Kentish in the sixth century.
Its name has been carried forward ever since as the county of Kent.
Blanchard took a second flight on 30 November 1784, taking off with an American, Dr John Jeffries, from the Rhedarium behind Green Street Mayfair, London to Ingress in Kent.
Conversely, in West Kent cemeteries such Orpington mix cremations with inhumations, which is more typical of Saxon cemeteries north of the River Thames.
Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south eastern England.
They include laws of the kings, beginning with those of Aethelbert of Kent and ending with those of Cnut, and texts dealing with specific cases and places in the country.
She came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, 14 hours and 34 minutes later.
In 1460 Edward landed in Kent with Salisbury, Warwick and Salisbury's brother William Neville, Lord Fauconberg, raised an army, and occupied London.
Southern and Nicolas conclude that the Gower family of Kent and Suffolk cannot be related to the Yorkshire Gowers because their coats of arms are drastically different.
The evidence for Offa's involvement in the kingdom of Sussex comes from charters, and as with Kent there is no clear consensus among historians on the course of events.
Vascular surgeon Christopher Lattimer was charged after police searched his home at Acol, Kent, last October, sparked by the international crackdown Operation Ore.
William therefore advanced on London, marching around the coast of Kent.
The King richly rewarded Hubert de Burgh for his service during his minority years, making him the Earl of Kent and giving him extensive lands across England and Wales.
Kent was also attractive for its easy access to major land and sea routes.
The Charles Dickens School is a high school in Broadstairs, Kent.
From north to south, the three counties are New Castle, Kent, and Sussex.
The division spent 1943 and early 1944 moving around the country spending time in Kent, Hertfordshire and Northumberland, and were assigned to II and XII Corps.

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