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Recreational Walks In Kent
The following is a list of recreational walks in Kent, England. Short walks *Ashenbank Wood. Woodland Trust managed wood categorised as ancient woodland in Cobham, Gravesend with two waymarked routes, either part of the Darnley Trail with some stumps and plaques relevant to Cobham Hall and leading on to Shorne Woods Country Park. * Beacon Wood Country Park, located on the B225 road close to Bean, Dartford, just south of Bluewater Shopping Centre. Reopened after lease expiry August 2011. . Has circular walks and an easy access route. No toilets. Small parking charge or covered by Kent's £30 annual ticket. * Bedgebury National Pinetum (near Goudhurst) has a range of walks and an easy access trail, as well as various cycle tracks. The Visitor Centre is accessed from the B2079 road, about 1 km from the A21 road. *Blean Woods National Nature Reserve has trails ranging from 1.5 to 13 km, one of which is an easy access trail. The reserve is accessed off the A290, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone. The county has an area of and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the Ceremonial counties of England#Lieutenancy areas since 1997, fifth most populous county in England. The north of the county contains a conurbation which includes the towns of Chatham, Kent, Chatham, Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham, and Rochester, Kent, Rochester. Other large towns are Maidstone and Ashford, Kent, Ashford, and the City of Canterbury, borough of Canterbury holds City status in the United Kingdom, city status. For local government purposes Kent consists of a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and the unitary authority area of Medway. The county historically included south-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxon Shore Way
The Saxon Shore Way is a long-distance footpath in England. It starts at Gravesend, Kent, Gravesend, Kent, and traces the coast of South-East England as it was in Roman Empire, Roman times as far as Hastings, East Sussex, in total. This means that around Romney Marsh the route runs significantly inland from the modern coastline. History The line of the Saxon Shore Forts, Roman fortification that the route traces includes ancient forts, modern towns, nature reserves and coastline: four Roman forts built in the fourth century lie along the route, at Reculver, Richborough, Dover and Lympne. At Seasalter there is an internationally important area for geese, ducks, and waders. The diversity of scenery along the route includes the wide expanses of marshland bordering the Thames and River Medway, Medway estuaries, the White cliffs of Dover, and panoramic views over Romney Marsh from the escarpment that marks the ancient coastline between Folkestone and Rye. The Saxon Shore Way was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoath
Hoath is a semi-rural village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury local government district. The hamlets of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish. Etymology In Kent and East Sussex the Old English term ''hǣð'', which became ''heath'' in Modern English, was replaced by an unmutated form, ''hāð'', which, over time, evolved into Hoath. The name thus means "heath". History Hoath was part of the estate granted by King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 for the foundation of the church at Reculver, and remained part of that estate when King Eadred granted it to Archbishop Oda of Canterbury in 949. A chantry either in or connected with Hoath is recorded in the 14th century, with John Gardener as the chaplain, successor to Henry atte Were. On 9 December 1410 Archbishop Thomas Arundel dedicated a chapel to the Virgin Mary and consecrated a burial-ground at Hoath at the request of the inhabitants and his tenants there who, led by Sir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a Charitable_organization#United_Kingdom, charitable organisation registered in Charity Commission for England and Wales, England and Wales and in Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scotland. It was founded in 1889. It works to promote bird conservation, conservation and protection of birds and the wider Natural environment, environment through public awareness campaigns, petitions and through the operation of Nature Reserve, nature reserves throughout the United Kingdom. In 2021/22 the RSPB had revenue of £157 million, 2,200 employees, 10,500 volunteers and 1.1 million members (including 195,000 youth members), making it one of the world's largest wildlife conservation organisations. The RSPB has many local groups and maintains 222 nature reserves. History The origins of the RSPB lie with two groups of women, both formed in 1889: * The Plumage League was founded by Emily Williamson at her house in Didsbury, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeness, Romney Marsh And Rye Bay
Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest which stretches from New Romney in Kent to Winchelsea in East Sussex. An area of is a Special Protection Area, an area of is a Special Area of Conservation, and an area of is a Ramsar Site, a wetland site designated of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. Part of the site is in the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, parts are Geological Conservation Review sites, part is a Local Nature Reserve, and part is a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a Charitable_organization#United_Kingdom, charitable organisation registered in Charity Commission for England and Wales, England and Wales and in Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, ... nature reserve, and part is a National Nature Reserve. Nationally important habitats in this site are saltmarsh, sand dunes, vegetated shingle, sali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headcorn
Headcorn is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The parish is on the floodplain of the River Beult south east of Maidstone. The village is 8 mi (13 km) southeast of Maidstone, on the A274 road to Tenterden. In addition to the St Peter's and St Paul's Church, Headcorn, parish church, dedicated to saints Saint Peter, Peter and Paul the Apostle, Paul, there are Baptist and Roman Catholic churches. There is a Lashenden (Headcorn) Airfield, small airfield located nearby, where there is an aviation museum and a parachute, parachuting centre. Headcorn Parachute Club is the only skydiving club in Kent and is home to national champions and world-record holders. Headcorn railway station is on the Kent Downs line between London and Dover. It was opened on 31 August 1842. On 1 December the same year, the South Eastern Railway (UK), South Eastern Railway opened the second section of its main line onward to Ashford, Ken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pluckley
Pluckley is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The civil parish includes the adjacent hamlet of Pluckley Thorne. Geography The landscape of the area itself is the edge of a well-drained plain, with the lowest slopes of the Kent Downs to the north-west. Pluckley is mostly agricultural in land use and centred west of Ashford. History References to Pluckley can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was a more significant settlement than the now considerably larger town of Ashford. The village's parish church, dedicated to St Nicholas, dates primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries. The Dering Chapel, separated from the rest of the church by two screens and found at the east end of the south aisle, was built in 1475. The nave contains brasses dedicated to members of the Dering family, all of which were made in the 1630s by Sir Edward Dering. Places of interest Surrenden Manor was the former residence of Sir Edward Dering, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dartford Heath
Dartford Heath Common is an area of open heathland situated to the south-west of Dartford, Kent, England, that covers around of open space. Dartford Heath is classified as lowland heath and is one of only two substantial heathland blocks remaining in Kent. The heath supports a number of rare plants and invertebrates, as well as reptiles, including the common lizard and slow-worm, and rabbits. History Prehistoric barrows, and Stone Age and Bronze Age artefacts have been discovered on Dartford Heath in some abundance. The heath has been important to local people since medieval times as common land; it therefore escaped enclosure during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however during this period the heath was owned by the Tredegars and it was heavily excavated for granite, chalk and other natural resources. Many pits and holes were observed in the 1830s, some " 5 or 20fathoms deep. At the mouth and thence downward they were narrow, like the tunnel of a chimney or the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodmersham
Rodmersham is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Swale in the north of the English county of Kent. It is just under south of Bapchild on the A2 road and south-east of the town of Sittingbourne. Rodmersham Green, which forms the bulk of the modern village, is to the south-west of the village church towards the Highsted Valley and Tunstall. History In 1798, Edward Hasted records that the parish was made up of of land, of which were woodland. It was under the control of the Manor of Milton, who controlled most of Kent. In King Richard II's reign, it was owned by John de Podach (from Devonshire). His descendants renamed themselves 'Pordage'. In the reign of King James I, it was owned by Sir William Pordage. In 1615, he renamed the manor house, 'New House', now (Grade II listed) and called Rodmersham House. In Queen Anne's reign it passed to the Lushington family. Which included Mr Thomas Lushington, a noted scholar, born in Sandwich in 1589, and afterwards educat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunstall, Kent
Tunstall is a linear village and civil parish in Borough of Swale, Swale in Kent, England. It is about 2 km to the southwest of the centre of Sittingbourne, on a road towards Bredgar. History In 1798, Edward Hasted records that it had once been called ''Dunstall''. This comes from the Saxon words ''dun'', or ''dune'', meaning a hill, and ''stealle'' meaning a place. It was recorded in the Domesday survey, mistakenly as Stealle. At that time the parish covered around nine hundred acres of land (about 364 ha), of which about one hundred and forty were woodland. In 1042, the manor was held by Osward (a Saxon chief) before being given to Odo, Earl of Kent (as the Bishop of Bayeux). After Odo's trial for fraud, the parish passed to 'Hugo de Port'. In the reign of Henry II of England, King Henry II (1166), it passed to Manasser Arsic. In 1206, it was sold to Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. His daughter Margaret (who was married at one time to Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons. The town stands next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey. The town became prominent after the death of Thomas Becket in 1170, since it provided a convenient resting point on the road from London to Canterbury and Dover. Chatham Main Line links to London Victoria station and HS1 to St Pancras International, the journey taking about an hour from Sittingbourne railway station. History Sittingbourne owes its name to a modernised version of an observation on its location. The town's name came from the fact that there is a small stream or "bourne" running underground in part of the town. Hasted writing in the 1790s in his ''History of Kent'' states that: The Kent Hundred Rolls of 1274–75, preserved in the National Arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waymarking
Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail. A blaze in the beginning meant "a mark made on a tree by slashing the bark" (''The Canadian Oxford Dictionary''). Originally a waymark was "any conspicuous object which serves as a guide to travellers; a landmark" (''Oxford English Dictionary''). Today, paint (most prevalent), carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, cairns, and crosses, are commonly used. Blaze frequency and recognizability varies significantly. In some wilderness areas, such as those governed by the US Wilderness Act requiring that the land seem "untrammeled by man," blazes are kept to a minimum. Alternatively, highly utilized public areas, such as busy municipal, county, or state parks, will use frequent and highly visible blazes to maximize trail recognition. Types of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
