A HISTORY OF KENT 



Kenardington 



Keston (3^ m. S.E. of Bromley) 

 Kingsnorth (3 m. S. Ashford) . 

 Knox Bridge, see Frittenden 

 Lamberhurst (partly in Sussex) 

 Leeds (5 m. S.E. Maidstone) . . 

 Leigh (3 m. W. Tonbridge) 

 Lesnes, see Erith. 



Leybourne {^i m. N.W. Maidstone) 

 Littlebourne (4 m. E. Canterbury) 

 Loose (3 m. S. Maidstone) . 

 Luddesdown (i^ m. S. Cobham) 

 Lympne (3 m. W. Hythe) . 



Maidstone 



Marden (5 m. N.E. Goudhurst) 

 Mersham (4 m. S.E. Ashford) . 

 Milton (by Sittingbourne) . 

 Minster (5 m.W. Ramsgate) 

 Nackington (3 m. S. Canterbury) 

 Nettlestead (6 m. S.W. Maidstone) 

 Newenden (sJ m. S.W. Tenterden) 

 Newington (3 m. E. Sittingbourne) 

 Oldbury, see Ightham 

 Ospringe (i m. W. Faversham) 

 Pluckley (3 m. S.W. Charing) . 

 Postling (3 m. N.W. Hythe) . 

 Poulton (3i m. W. Dover) . 

 Queenborough (2 m. S. Sheernes;) 

 Reculver (3 m. E. Heme Bay) . 

 Richborough, see Ash 

 Ringwould (4 m. S. Deal) . 

 Ripple (3 m. S.W. Deal) . . 



Rochester 



Rolvenden (2^ m. S.W. Tenterden) 



B 

 B 

 F 



G 

 G 

 F 



E 

 X 

 B 

 H 

 C 

 H 

 F 

 F 

 F G 

 G 



F X 



X 



D F 



C 



C X 



C X 



C E 



F 



Saltwood (by Hythe) E 



Sandgate (by Folkestone) .... X 



Sandwich C 



Selling (s m. S.E. Faversham) . . . B D 



Sevington (zj m. S.E. Ashford) . . F 

 Sheppey Castle, see Queenborough 



Shipborne (4 m. N. Tonbridge) . . F 



Sibertswold (i m. N. Coldred) . . . C 

 Sissinghurst, see Cranbrook 



Sittingbourne G 



Speldhurst (3 m. N.W. Tunbridge 



WeUs) F 



Stanford (3 m. N.W. Hythe) ... G 



Staplehurst (4 m. N.E. Cranbrook) . F 



Stockbury (4 m. S.W. Sittingbourne) . E 



Sutton Valence (4! m. S.E. Maidstone) F 



Sutton-at-Hone (3 m. S. Dartford) . G 



Sutton (i m. S.W. Ripple) .... X 



Swanscombe (3J m. W. Gravesend) B (2) D 



Teynham (5 m. E. Sittingbourne) . . B 



Thanington (2 m. S.W. Canterbury) . F 



Thornham (4 m. N.E. Maidstone) . E (2) 



Tonbridge E 



Tonge (2 m. E. Sittingbourne) . G 



Walmer (by Deal G X 



Westenhanger, see Stanford 



Westerham B 



WestweU (3 m. S.E. Charing) . . . F 



West Wickham (i m. S.W. Hayes) . . B 



Wittersham (sJ m. S.E. Tenterden) . F 



Woodnesborough (2 m. S.W. Sandwich) F (2) 



Wouldham (3 J m. S.W. Rochester) . D 



Wrotham (11 m. N.W.Maidstone) . F 



Yalding (sJm. S.W.Maidstone) . . F 



APPENDIX I 



THE DENEHOLES OF KENT 



In the counties of Kent, Essex and Durham certain ancient artificial caverns have re- 

 ceived the traditional name of deneholes, daneholes or danesholes from the dwellers in those 

 districts in which they are found. The eminent philologist. Dr. J. A. H. Murray, is of opinion 

 that this name implies that these caverns were made either by the Danes, or by people fleeing 

 from the Danes, the word deneholes being simply an earlier form of danehole. They are 

 doubtless associated with the Danes, because they were the latest and best remembered of 

 pirates. 



Caverns known by this name in Kent, Essex and Durham are usually found mthin some 

 six or seven miles from the sea or of some stream capable of giving passage to the small ships 

 used by the Danes and by the earlier Saxon and other pirates. Thus, in Durham, they are 

 noted by Mr. W. H. D. Longstaffe as abounding in the neighbourhood of Embleton, six or 

 seven miles west of Hartlepool, and in the southern counties they may best be seen about 

 Bexley in Kent, and between Purfleet and Stanford-le-Hope in Essex. In Durham they are 

 described as ' excavations in the sides of eminences ' ; in Kent and Essex they appear to be 

 entered invariably by means of vertical shafts. • 



From the fact that the chalk is the only hard rock existing in Essex and Kent where dene- 

 holes abound, deneholes ending in chalk have naturally been more or less preserved, while 



^ For the Durham deneholes, see Mr. Longstaffe's paper on ' Durham before the Conquest,' read at 

 the Newcastle meeting of the Arch^ological Institute in 1852. 



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