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The landscape, buildings and people of Kent have provided inspiration for writers for centuries. Whether the writers were natives of the county itself or came as visitors, its coastline, orchards, towns and villages have helped shape the imaginations of some of the most influential of English authors. Among the many writers associated with Kent is Geoffrey Chaucer, who set his famous Canterbury Tales on the pilgrims’ route to Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury Cathedral. Charles Dickens spent his formative years in Kent and later returned to the county when he bought his mansion Gads Hill Place and his holiday home at Broadstairs. Kent provided the setting for many of his novels. Charles Darwin worked on his groundbreaking theory of evolution at his Kentish home, Down House; Winston Churchill produced much of his finest writing whilst living at Chartwell; Ian Fleming visited the county regularly and it features often in the Bond novels; H. E. Bates’ popular Darling Buds of May stories are set in the heart of rural Kent where he himself lived for many years. This book explores the fascinating history of Kent’s remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.
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Kent is the largest and most heavily populated of the home counties. It is a county of contrasts: in the north and west it borders London and its population there has moved to and from the metropolis for centuries, but it is also known for agricultural produce and heavy industries including coal mining, as well as historic towns and cities such as Canterbury. Kent’s history has been shaped by its extensive coastline and today people and goods still transit through the county from its chief port of Dover.Kent was famous for the number of smuggling gangs who plied their trade on its coastline in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including the Hawkhurst Gang and the Romney Marsh Gang. Other crimes included the Train Robbery of 1855 and an attack on Charles Dickens by two rogues in 1862. There are a number of infamous murders linked to the county, such as Alphege, Becket and Arden of Faversham, the latter made famous in the play of the same name. The nineteenth century saw the unsolved murder of the Bonars in Chislehurst, the cruel murder by neglect of a wife and child in the Cudham of 1877, the death of a soldier in Bossenden Woods by Mad Thom and the death by opium of Dr Lyddon in Faversham in 1890. The murder of Ightham’s Caroline Luard in 1908 remains unsolved and the 1946 Wrotham Hill murder still resonates today. In more recent times, the Krays spent time in Canterbury Prison and the notorious criminal and murderer Kenneth Noye lived in the county. Kent was also briefly the home of serial killer Peter Tobin.This collection of true-life crime stories gives a vivid insight into life in Kent through the centuries to the present. This book will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of crime as well as those who want to know more about the history of this county in the south-east of England.
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The historic cathedral city of Canterbury has traces of its Roman past. The oldest church in England, St Martin’s, can trace its history back to this era but it is the cathedral founded under Anglo-Saxon rule which still dominates the city close by other surviving Saxon buildings, the Burgate and St Augustine’s Abbey. Canterbury became an international pilgrimage destination in the Middle Ages after the assassination of Thomas Becket and although the population plummeted after the Black Death, the city wall with its gates was rebuilt. Huguenot weavers helped to revive the city’s fortunes and the town grew again in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, although some of the town’s old buildings such as the castle and the towers in the walls fell into disrepair. Although the Baedeker Blitz in the Second World War destroyed many buildings, Canterbury has retained its historic core but today’s city is also graced by noteworthy examples of modern architecture, not least at the University of Kent and the recently redeveloped Marlowe Theatre.Canterbury in 50 Buildings explores the history of this fascinating city in Kent through a selection of its most interesting buildings and structures, showing the changes that have taken place in Canterbury over the years. The book will appeal to all those who live in Canterbury or who have an interest in the city.