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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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