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Lydden is a civil parish and small village in the Dover district of Kent, England.The Lydden Race Circuit is located between here and Wootton to the west of the village. Lydden village consists of a triangle of 3 roads: Canterbury Road (part of the old A2 running between Dover, Canterbury and London), Stonehall and Church Lane.
It was also the origin (meridian) of the 6-inch and 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps of Kent. [ 6 ] The parish hosts (adjacent to the historic village) part of the M20 motorway and the High Speed 1 rail link to the Channel Tunnel , and residents in 2007 joined forces with the neighbouring village of Bearsted in voicing their objections to the ...
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to informally as the Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46-kilometre (31.35 mi) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
Dungeness (UK: / ˌ d ʌ n dʒ ə ˈ n ɛ s / [1]) is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland.It shelters a large area of low-lying land, Romney Marsh.
Walmer is a town in the district of Dover, Kent, in England. Located on the coast, the parish of Walmer is six miles (9.7 km) south-east of Sandwich, Kent. The town's coastline and castle are popular amongst tourists. It has a population of 6,693 (2001), increasing to 8,178 at the 2011 Census. [1]
Herne Bay / h ɜːr n / is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England.It is 6 miles (10 km) north of Canterbury and 4 miles (6 km) east of Whitstable.It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury.
Ulcombe is a village near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England.The name is recorded in the Domesday Book and is thought to derive from 'Owl-coomb': [2] 'coomb' (pronounced 'coo-m') meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' (Chambers Dictionary) in Old English.
Because of its strategic location by the major crossing of the River Medway, the borough has made a wide and significant contribution to Kent, and to England, dating back thousands of years, as evident in the siting of Watling Street by the Romans and by the Norman Rochester Castle, Rochester Cathedral (the second oldest in Britain) and the Chatham naval dockyard and its associated defences.