Villages & towns in KentKent, England

Medway village of a medieval ragstone bridge, a working friary and old timbered houses.

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Thanet resort of seven sandy bays where Dickens holidayed, its old town above Viking Bay.

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Single street of Tudor houses owned almost whole by the National Trust, beside a moated mock castle.

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Seafront town of narrow Georgian streets and a Tudor castle, with a pier and a conservation-area old quarter.

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Working oyster town of weatherboarded fishermen's huts, seafood shacks and a long shingle beach.

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Wealden weavers' village of a timbered cloth street, known for the medieval Biddenden Maids charity.

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Square of Tudor and Jacobean houses between a Jacobean manor and a flint church, at the head of the Stour gap.

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Darent village with a ford and hump-backed bridge below the ruins of a Norman castle.

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Market town of some 500 listed buildings around a creek, home to Shepherd Neame, Britain's oldest brewer.

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Weald hilltop village rising from a duck pond to a big church, scene of a 1747 battle with smugglers

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Wealden village at the gates of Penshurst Place, its churchyard reached through the arch of a Tudor house.

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Medway city of a Norman keep and cathedral, its High Street thick with Dickens associations.

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Medieval Cinque Port left two miles inland by silt, with Fisher Gate, the Barbican and a 1300 Magna Carta in its Guildhall

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Broad tree-lined High Street of a Wealden market town, terminus of the Kent & East Sussex steam railway.

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Wealden village of timber-framed and white-boarded houses around a church known as the Barn of Kent.

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Wealden town beneath the white weatherboarded Union Mill, the tallest smock mill in England.

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Britain's smallest town by charter, a former Canterbury river port on the Stour with a timber town hall.

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Village in a steep wooded valley of old cloth-fulling ponds and a packhorse causeway south of Maidstone.

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Darent village around a duck pond that is itself a listed monument, with the ruins of an archbishops' palace.

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Darent-valley village of Samuel Palmer's 'valley of vision', with a war-memorial cross cut into the hillside.

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Small town of a Georgian High Street, a surviving Norman tower and the ruins of a medieval abbey.

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Village of a wide tree-lined main street of medieval and Georgian houses on the old road to Sandwich.

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Pilgrims' Way village with the ruins of an archbishops' palace beside the church.

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