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GREENWICH--THE ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL--THE "FUBBS YACHT"--THE GREENWICH WHITEBAIT DINNERS--WOOLWICH--THE "PRINCESS ALICE" DISASTER--LESNES ABBEY--ERITH--DARTFORD 15
STONE--GREENHITHE--NORTHFLEET--HUGGENS'S COLLEGE--ROSHERVILLE-- GRAVESEND--SHORNEMEAD--CLIFFE--COOLING--THE HUNDRED OF HOO-- THE ISLE OF GRAIN--HOO ST. WERBURGH--UPNOR CASTLE--STROOD 31
ROCHESTER AND CHATHAM--BROMPTON--GILLINGHAM--GRANGE--OTTERHAM QUAY--LOWER HALSTOW--IWADE 57
SHEPPEY 67
THE CAPTURE OF JAMES THE SECOND--FAVERSHAM 88
MILTON-NEXT-SITTINGBOURNE--SITTINGBOURN--OLD INNS--MURSTON-- LUDDENHAM 94
GOODNESTONE--GRAVENEY--SEASALTER--WHITSTABLE AND THE OYSTER FISHERY 103
HERNE BAY--RECULVER--WANTSUM--SARRE 116
THANET'S CORNFIELDS--MONKTON--MINSTER-IN-THANET--BIRCHINGTON-- QUEX PARK--WESTGATE--DANDELION 130
MARGATE 144
KINGSGATE--THE NORTH FORELAND--BROADSTAIRS--ST. PETER'S 156
RAMSGATE 167
PEGWELL BAY--EBBSFLEET--THE LANDINGS OF HENGIST AND OF ST. AUGUSTINE--RICHBOROUGH 177
SANDWICH 188
WORTH--UPPER DEAL--DEAL--THE GOODWIN SANDS 214
THE DOWNS AND THE DEAL BOATMEN 240
WALMER CASTLE--KINGSDOWN--ST. MARGARET'S BAY 256
DOVER--THE CASTLE AND ROMAN PHAROS--"QUEEN ELIZABETH'S POCKET-PISTOL"--THE WESTERN HEIGHTS 270
THE CHANNEL PASSAGE--THE NATIONAL HARBOUR AND ITS STRATEGIC PURPOSE--SWIMMING AND FLYING THE CHANNEL 284
SHAKESPEARE'S CLIFF--SAMPHIRE--THE CHANNEL TUNNEL--COAL IN KENT--THE WARREN 298
FOLKESTONE--THE OLD TOWN AND THE NEW--DICKENS AND "PAVILIONSTONE"--SANDGATE 308
SHORNCLIFFE CAMP--THE ROYAL MILITARY CANAL--HYTHE--ROMNEY MARSH--THE MARTELLO TOWERS--THE "HOLY MAID OF KENT" 319
NEW ROMNEY--SMUGGLING DAYS--BROOKLAND--FAIRFIELD--SMALLHYTHE 344
LYDD--DUNGENESS--CAMBER-ON-SEA 359
INDEX 371
PAGE Deptford Green: St. Nicholas' Church and Church-house 7
Greenwich Hospital 17
The "Old Fubbs Yacht," Greenwich 19
Ingress Abbey 33
Tilbury Fort 37
Curious old Boat-cottage at Chalk 39
Shornemead Battery 41
Cliffe Battery 42
Cooling Castle 43
The "Charter," Cooling Castle 45
Graves of the Comport Family, Cooling: "Like Chrysalids" 46
Stoke 49
St. James Grain 51
Upnor Castle 55
The Medway: Rochester Castle and Cathedral 61
The Medway: Hoo Forts 63
Upchurch 65
Lower Halstow 67
Minster-in-Sheppey 73
Tomb of Sir Robert de Shurland, Minster-in-Sheppey Church 76
Harty Church: Faversham in the Distance 83
Late Fourteenth-Century Chest, of German origin, carved with representation of a Tournament, Harty Church 85
The Town Hall, Faversham 90
Faversham 92
The Church, Milton Regis 95
The Town Hall, Milton Regis 97
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