Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note: Boldface text is indicated by =equals signs=; italic text is indicated by _underscores_. Small-caps text is shown as ALL-CAPS. Superscripts are indicated by ^ (examples: y^e, 18^{th}). THE KENTISH COAST WORKS BY CHARLES G. HARPER =The Portsmouth Road=, and its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old. =The Dover Road=: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike. =The Bath Road=: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old Highway. =The Exeter Road=: The Story of the West of England Highway. =The Great North Road=: The Old Mail Road to Scotland. Two Vols. =The Norwich Road=: An East Anglian Highway. =The Holyhead Road=: The Mail-Coach Road to Dublin. Two Vols. =The Cambridge, Ely, and King’s Lynn Road=: The Great Fenland Highway. =The Newmarket, Bury, Thetford, and Cromer Road=: Sport and History on an East Anglian Turnpike. =The Oxford, Gloucester, and Milford Haven Road=: The Ready Way to South Wales. Two Vols. =The Brighton Road=: Speed, Sport, and History on the Classic Highway. =The Hastings Road= and the “Happy Springs of Tunbridge.” =Cycle Rides Round London.= =A Practical Handbook of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction.= =Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore.= Two Vols. =The Ingoldsby Country=: Literary Landmarks of “The Ingoldsby Legends.” =The Hardy Country=: Literary Landmarks of the Wessex Novels. =The Dorset Coast.= =The South Devon Coast.= =The Old Inns of England.= Two Vols. =Love in the Harbour=: a Longshore Comedy. =Rural Nooks Round London= (Middlesex and Surrey). =Haunted Houses=; Tales of the Supernatural. =The Manchester and Glasgow Road.= This way to Gretna Green. Two Vols. =The North Devon Coast.= =Half-Hours with the Highwaymen.= Two Vols. =The Autocar Road Book.= =The Somerset Coast.= =The Cornish Coast.= North. =The Cornish Coast.= South. =Thames Valley Villages= =The Shakespeare Country.= =The Sussex Coast.= [_In the Press._ [Illustration: DOVER CASTLE: THE WHITE CLIFFS OF ALBION.] THE KENTISH COAST BY CHARLES G. HARPER “_Kent, in the commentaries Cæsar writ, Is termed the civil’st place of all this isle: Sweet is the country, because full of riches; The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy._” KING HENRY THE SIXTH (Second Part). [Illustration] LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LTD. 1914 PRINTED AND BOUND BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE DEPTFORD AND PETER THE GREAT 1 CHAPTER II