A new topographical, historical, and commercial survey of the cities, towns, and villages, of the county of kent. : Arranged in alphabetical order. This work includes a minute and interesting account of the antient and present state of Kent, civil, ecclesiastical, and military, from the earliest times to this century, with all the improvements of the arts, of civilization, and luxury. It comprehends all the chief harbours, bays, rivers, docks, forests, hills, valleys, medicinal springs, and other curiosities both of nature and art; and not only takes notice of all the manors and seats in the county, but also points out the old military ways, camps, castles, and other remarkable ruins of Roman, Saxon, Danish, and Anglo Norman antiquity. It shews particularly the estates that were formerly abbey lands, and mentions the manufacture and trade, the privileges and customs, the principal buildings and charitable foundations of the two cities, corporations, and the most noted villages, with their distances from London, in measured miles. The ancient and obscure terms of the feudal law, and the obsolete tenures and cutoms relative to it, are also explained.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seymour, Charles.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kent (England)--Gazetteers--Early works to 1800.

Kent (England).

Physical Description:

xxxvi,828 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

Canterbury : Sold by T. Smith, and all other booksellers in Kent, M,DCC,LXXXII. [1782]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Dedication signed: Charles Seymour.

Horizontal chain lines.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Alston, XI.132

English Short Title Catalog, T147735.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.