Dover Castle: The White Cliffs of Albion[Frontispiece]
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Deptford Green: St. Nicholas’ Church and Church-house[7]
Greenwich Hospital[17]
The “Old Fubbs Yacht,” Greenwich[19]
Ingress Abbey[33]
Tilbury Fort[37]
Curious old Boat-cottage at Chalk[39]
Shornemead Battery[41]
Cliffe Battery[42]
Cooling Castle[43]
The “Charter,” Cooling Castle[45]
Graves of the Comport Family, Cooling: “Like Chrysalids”[46]
Stoke[49]
St. James Grain[51]
Upnor Castle[55]
The Medway: Rochester Castle and Cathedral[61]
The Medway: Hoo Forts[63]
Upchurch[65]
Lower Halstow[67]
Minster-in-Sheppey[73]
Tomb of Sir Robert de Shurland, Minster-in-Sheppey Church[76]
Harty Church: Faversham in the Distance[83]
Late Fourteenth-Century Chest, of German origin, carved with representation of a Tournament, Harty Church[85]
The Town Hall, Faversham[90]
Faversham[92]
The Church, Milton Regis[95]
The Town Hall, Milton Regis[97]
Sign of the Adam and Eve, Milton-next-Sittingbourne[99]
Luddenham[101]
Whitstable: The Old Lighthouse and the Oyster Fleet[111]
Herne: The “Smuggler’s Look-out”[120]
Reculver[123]
The Wantsum Ferry[126]
St. Nicholas-at-Wade[128]
Minster-in-Thanet Church[133]
The Waterloo Tower, Quex Park[139]
Dandelion Gateway[141]
From the Palimpsest Brass, Margate Church[147]
Kingsgate[157]
The North Foreland Lighthouse[158]
Broadstairs: York Gate[163]
Broadstairs[164]
Thanet as an Island, showing the Wantsum. From an ancient map[185]
Fishergate, Sandwich[189]
The Town Hall, Sandwich[211]
Upper Deal[215]
The Quaint Foreshore of Deal[221]
The Goodwin Sands: “A dangerous flat and fatal”[236]
The East Goodwin Lightship[238]
Walmer Castle[258]
Entrance to Walmer Castle[259]
Walmer Castle, from the Sea[262]
St. Margaret’s Bay[263]
Westcliff[268]
Dover Castle[272]
Colton’s Tower, Dover Castle[273]
The Church of St. Mary-in-the-Castle, with the Roman Pharos, Dover[275]
The National Harbour, Dover[287]
Shakespeare’s Cliff[298]
Shakespeare Cliff Colliery, and the Coast towards Folkestone[304]
The Stade, and Old Tackle-Boxes, Folkestone[310]
Interior, Sandgate Castle[316]
Hythe[321]
Romney Marsh: The Martello Towers and Military Canal, Moonlight[334]
Lympne[331]
Lympne Castle and Church[333]
Bonnington Church[342]
New Romney Church[345]
Brookland Church[349]
Fairfield Church[352]
Smallhythe Toll-gate[354]
Smallhythe Church[356]
Smallhythe[357]
Lydd Church[361]
Dungeness: Lighthouse and Railway Station[366]

The Kentish Coast: Deptford to Faversham

THE KENTISH COAST

CHAPTER I
DEPTFORD AND PETER THE GREAT

The seaboard of Kent, and indeed the south coast of England in general, is no little-known margin of our shores. It is not in the least unspotted from the world, or solitary. It lies too near London for that, and began to be exploited more than a hundred and fifty years ago, when seaside holidays were first invented. The coast of Kent, socially speaking, touches both extremes. It is at once fashionable and exclusive, and is the holiday haunt of the Cockney: a statement that is not the paradox it at first sight appears to be, for the bracing qualities of its sea-air have always attracted all classes. We all ardently desire health, whether we are of those who romp on the sands of Margate or Ramsgate and eat shrimps in the tea-gardens of Pegwell Bay, or are numbered among those who are guests at the lordly Lord Warden, the Granville, or the Cliftonville.