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Romney Marsh

‘The world, according to the best geographers, is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh’ – Ingoldsby Legends (1837), Reverend Richard Harris Barham   The landscape of Romney…

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Hythe – Cinque Port Town

Hythe was the original Cinque Port, part of the historic collection of coastal towns formed for military and trade purposes, providing ships for the Crown in return for money and…

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Folkestone’s Guildhall Street

For many of us a first visit to Folkestone will begin with a visit to its beaches, with its shingle and sand shoreline and stunning views across to the White…

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A Walk on the North-East Side

Zeren Wilson enthuses about the evolution in dining and drinking options in his ‘hood – “We’ve never had so many food writers traipsing out of Central line stations…” CODE Quarterly,…

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California Dreaming

The wines of Napa Valley and Sonoma County are back in the frame, their characteristic exuberance tempered with the restraint that first wowed the world in 1976. Zeren Wilson, reports…

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Deptford Rising

“…so I back again to Deptford, and there find them just sat down. And so I down with them; and we had a good dinner of plain meat, and good…