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THE DOVER ROAD 



placed in a niche of the north chancel wall ; a mys- 

 terious figure, represented with an infant wrapped in 

 swaddling clothes lying across its wasted breast. 

 No inscription remains to tell its story. The church 

 fronts on to the highway, and in days of pilgrimage 



YAED OF THE " LIOX " IXX. SITTINGBOURNK. 



(and even so lately as 1830) the bourne to which 

 Sittingbourne owes its name, which comes from the 

 Anglo-Saxon " Saethingbourne," the seething, or 

 bubbling, brook, trickled and welled up in the likeness 



