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CHAPTER XXV

LYDD--DUNGENESS--CAMBER-ON-SEA 359

INDEX 371

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Dover Castle: The White Cliffs of Albion _Frontispiece_

PAGE 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

[Illustration: THE KENTISH COAST: DEPTFORD TO FAVERSHAM]

[Illustration]

THE KENTISH COAST

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