The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. This sect was centred on Pluckley and Smarden, where the cloth trade probably brought the community into contact with radical Protestant ideas from the Low Countries. Glynd, in Sussex; secondly Gertrude, sister of Thomas Holles, The battle was lost, Audley was executed, and reparations were exacted. mandates, dated from their manor house of Otford, Sansom was found guilty of dangerous driving, but treated leniently on the jurys recommendation. Detective Inspector Arthur Neil lured Smith into revealing himself, and by a clever process of investigation worked out how his victims, including a third at Herne Bay, had been killed. He was only detected because a member of the public noticed a similarity in the cases of two women who had died in their bath. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. Although there was little loss of life, few people had insurance, so the losses were devastating. [5], After relieving London Edmund pursued the Danes and the battle of Brentford was fought two days later. The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 between invading forces of the Kingdom of Denmark under Cnut and the defending forces of the Kingdom of England led by Edmund Ironside. (fn. Cities all over England were targeted, so it was inevitable that Canterbury would be among them. On the night of February 21st, 2006, the Securitas depot in Tonbridge saw the worlds largest ever civilian heist. He was incarcerated at the RWK barracks in Maidstone, where he attempted to escape by digging a tunnel. Renamed Curaao, she first crossed the Atlantic in April/May 1827, reaching Suriname in 28 days at a stately eight knots. Unsurprisingly, he ran out of fuel, and attempted a crash landing near Stowting. The dispute elicited sympathy for families faced with joblessness, though there was little public appetite for another Three-Day Week. On the afternoon of September 18th, 1692, there occurred the most powerful earthquake ever recorded on the mainland of north-west Europe. Although some Spanish ships got through, about 40 were sunk and 7,000 men killed. King Stephens forces under Gilbert de Clare laid siege to the castle. The Captain of HMS Haslemere leapt in to save her, but himself froze to death. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. [2] With Aethelred sick, and Edmund at loggerheads with Eadric, Cnut faced little opposition, and by Christmas the people of Wessex had recognised Cnut as king and given him hostages. The Black Death of 1348 killed half the population of England. . The Navy put on a brave face, awarding eight Victoria Crosses. 80; he married During WW1, Neville Usborne (b 1883) had the unique distinction of being both a Royal Navy lieutenant and a wing-commander, having taken command of the Royal Naval Air Services Kingsnorth station on the Hoo Peninsula. After hurrying out to her, he flooded the forward magazines but realised that, when the flames reached the magazines aft, the explosion would ignite the adjacent ammunition ship Gransha and obliterate Dover. Consequently, many Kentish people were unaware of it until the morning, when they encountered fallen trees across roads or arrived at railway stations to find all services cancelled. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. Kent was the scene of another unwanted record on June 18th, 2000. surveyed, when it was returned, that there belonged different parts of it. A turning-point occurred on March 31st, 1916, when ten German airships were forced back from London by conditions. It reportedly flew for 300 yards at nearly 5 feet. She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. Thomas Farnaby, bart. In March 1769, however, he was in for a surprise. The Castle was at length returned to the de Crvecoeurs, who managed to retain it for another hundred years before the Crown pinched it for good. St Barts was expanded and modernised in the C19; but the NHS had no need for it, and it closed in 2016 amid plans for redevelopment as housing. to it several court leets, within the hundreds of Codsheath, Sommerdenne, Sherborne Borough, and Kingsborough; all adjacent hundreds to this honour. After being recaptured, he was transported to Canada, but escaped through a train window and crossed the St Lawrence River into the then neutral USA. The police got their first lead when a woman tried banking notes marked Tonbridge. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. The 5 oclock service to Deal set off from Cannon Street with the usual load of commuters. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. On its third run, Maxim and his two crew went so fast that the plane broke its restraints. yes Commemorations 15th Century Wars (1400-1499) Total names on memorial: 0 Served and returned: 0 Died: 0 Exact count: no being a most commodious and favorite retirement for the palace. and for Robert their eldest son, obt. This sudden influx brought unrest over overcrowding, crime, and preferential treatment for strangers, but the Government prized the immigrants commercial worth, especially as weavers. 2). He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. [4] The battle was a victory for Edmund,[2] who lost enough men that he returned to Wessex to raise another army. Although Sandwichs population was already swollen by Dutch Protestant immigrants, poor Huguenot refugees were awarded 50 shillings by the authorities. On May 21, El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. By then, future Transport Minister John Moore-Brabazon had become the first Briton to make a powered flight, five years after the Wrights. King John abandoned the county to its fate, and Louis marched unopposed to the capital. Domesday, in which record it is thus entered, under The raids ultimately proved merely a distraction from Hitlers war on Russia, and brought Germany retaliation on a horrendous scale. She was seen parachuting into the heavy sea off Herne Bay. In an effort to stop German U-boats using Zeebrugge harbour in Belgium, the Royal Navy attempted to scuttle three blockships in its entrance. During November, the revolt spread to neighbouring counties. it is the second in the Saxon name of a place, is generally left out in our modern pronunciation. The Duke of Wellingtons government fell, and the new Whig regime introduced the 1832 Reform Act as well as the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. At Uplees, on what is now the Oare Marsh Nature Reserve, an explosives factory stood next door to the Explosive Loading Company. On November 29th, 1957, Oakwood Hospital formerly the Kent County Lunatic Asylum saw a fire with a trivial cause but a terrible sting in the tail. This was a so-called Liberty ship one built for Britain in the USA during WW2 that the Americans had cheekily named after one of their Revolutionary War heroes. The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. A case can be made out for each. was widened in 1767, many skeletons were found in 7) and he resided here at the time of his Their leader, Joss Snelling from Broadstairs, favoured Botany Bay at Kingsgate as a landing place, it being suitably secluded but also offering caves and tunnels handy for handling quantities of contraband without detection. This Operation Dynamo was not only conducted by Royal Navy vessels, but also a flotilla of 700 shallow-draught Little Ships of every description from across the South East, most crewed by Navy sailors. Wellcome L0010915 by Wellcome Images, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Here is a newspaper article from 1835 about the site of the battle and remains being found. 16). Even so, in July 1909, a handful of contenders were determined to try their luck. Independence would not be restored until his death in 796. On 23rd April 1016, St George's day, Ethelred the Ill-advised, after having failed for the previous 25 years to prevent the country being ravaged by Vikings, did the only good deed that he ever did for England by dying. to have been owned by John At-Welle to his son, Sir Robert Sidney, the scite of the honour of them to Sir Thomas Smith. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. Apart from the two valuable ships, Britannias lost cargo was worth 2.5 million today, while Admiral Gardner was carrying nearly 1 million in copper coins belonging to manufacturer Matthew Boulton. After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. A crate of butter landed 6 miles away in Rainham, wreckage hit people in Sittingbourne, and severed heads were found in Hartlip and on the Isle of Grain. After they had lodged for three days at Rochester, the lad led him astray, hit him over the head, cut his throat, robbed him, and disappeared. A V-2 bomb with its 2,200-pound warhead landed on the Woolworths store in New Cross Road. On April 23rd, 1918, Dover was the start and end point of one of the few memorable missions of WW1 outside the Western Front. The opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 sounded the death knell. For John Lennons psychedelic I Am The Walrus sequence, locals were recruited as extras, playing egg-men; while McCartneys whimsical Your Mother Should Know became a song-and-dance spectacular featuring 160 of Kents own Frank & Peggy Spencer Formation Team. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. It was at the time the highest loss of life in a British road accident. The barracks subsequently moved elsewhere, and the pub today is a haunt of football fans. Margate is no stranger to extreme weather, but the tempest that struck it on November 29th, 1897 did more than rattle windows. What did make a difference was the quick thinking of a truck driver who positioned his vehicle to force others to slow down. They stole 53 million in cash. The unsuspecting townsfolk found themselves on the end of a Viking-style raid as the invaders ran amok. powers then in being seized on the royal estates; and As a political entity, it made slow progress until, in 1924, Mahatma Gandhi took over as President, and used it as a vehicle to propel himself to power and his homeland to independence. For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. the above mentioned premises to Sir Thomas Smith, The Battle of Otford was a battle fought in 776 between the Mercians, led by Offa of Mercia, and the Jutes of Kent.The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent.. chaplain, and his successors, celebrating divine offices who is the Kent-born, Although the North-West of Europe is not normally associated with newsworthy seismic activity, an area of instability does exist to the east of Kent. She was commissioned by King Charles I, who wished to reassert the English monarchs sovereignty over neighbouring seas as claimed by King Edgar in the C10. It for the residence of the archbishops at it for such a So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. before. Two miles further on, she ran into trouble. granted the little park of Otford, then lately disparked, to Sir Henry Sidney, as will be further mentioned below, and the latter in her 34th year granted At twilight on September 3rd, 1878, on the Thames north-east of Woolwich, there occurred one of those accidents that warrant the description horrific. The train took 250 yards to stop. The attractions included an Italian garden, cavern, tunnels, hermit cave, Greek temples, lake, and even a bear pit. His first message was Hello Furnie. Fortunately, the scientific revolution would soon be delineating the difference between truth and self-serving superstition. Clearing the debris was a major task. conveyed to that king a messuage, called BROUGHTON'S, and other premises in Otford, in exchange for In view of the nature of its occupants, it was built outside of the city wall in a part of Chatham under Rochesters jurisdiction. Somehow 12 crew survived, but 741 were incinerated. Canterbury; (fn. the Right Hon. Because ships had difficulty landing passengers there, they had to be rowed ashore. In 1914, Marconis research unit at Brooklands, Surrey was taken over by the Royal Flying Corps under the command of Major Charles Prince. At 6.15pm on September 16th, 1918, Commander NW Diggle was on the Dover cliffs when he heard an explosion, and saw his ship HMS Glatton on fire. Within moments, two Mk.4s of 600 Squadron circling at 2,000 feet to observe the fatal accident flew into each other. and the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, with the chapel of Otford annexed to the parsonage of Shoreham, and all other his estates in Otford, Anyone wondering why Tenterden is a Cinque Port nine miles inland need look no further than the flood of 1287. Arriving out of the blue, they met with complete success: 95 men were killed, and 195 injured. for the Everests and Pettys. Nevertheless, one story has survived of an encounter between Normans and Kentishmen, possibly near Swanscombe, when the invaders did not have things their own way. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. It was finally rendered outmoded by improved rail travel, which opened up attractions much further afield. the village, near the palace, is dedicated to St. Bartholomew, a saint of great credit here for the gift of Summary : Possible site of the Battle of Ashingdon which is thought to have been located in one of a few areas. The National Union of Mineworkers presented the most serious threat, striking in March 1984 over coalmine closures. the possessions of the see of Canterbury, till archbishop On June 1st, 1942, in response to the RAFs destruction of Cologne, the city was carpet-bombed by 77 aircraft carrying forty tons of bombs; 43 people were killed and 800 buildings destroyed, with many more damaged. The Father of the Royal Navy Robert Blake, who was policing the convoy with 25 English ships, fired three warning shots, one of which caused damage to Tromps flagship. By 1450, the rule of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou was already known as much for ineptitude as for brutality. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. of Canterbury, and continued so till the same was The Mayor of Canterbury arrived at the marketplace on December 25th to find few traders observing the legal injunction to work normally. Edmund retakes Wessex Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The end product, a slapdash affair, was lambasted by critics after its launch screening on Boxing Day; but the EP reached No. On the second, Hosidius Getas legion mounted a surprise attack. The hitmen fled, but Arden and Mosby were tried and sentenced to death. Taking a steamboat down the Thames for a day out in Gravesend remained a great London tradition until 1911. The archbishop himself holds Otefort in demesne. It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. This barbarity was an act of pure spite, meant as a rebuke to the English council that had sworn fealty to his fathers rule but shunned Cnut in favour of Ethelraed the Unready. The Petitions presenters to Parliament were arrested, its perpetrators were declared delinquents, it was publicly burned by hangmen, and Parliament concocted its own petition with more signatures. for Rochester, and At 4.41 am on July 25th, he set off from Sangatte, maintaining a steady 45 mph. As police suspicion grew, she sent herself parcels in the hope of incriminating Maynard. Luckily, Hitler still hoped for Britains peaceful withdrawal from the War, and held off long enough for plans to be made for an ambitious evacuation. The Kent County Lunatic Asylum was built on Barming Heath to cater for the entire area of historical Kent as far as Deptford. This manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford coming thus into the king's possessions, appears thenceforth known by the name of the Lesser or Little Park. (fn. Otford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ireton, by Bridget, Otford, battle of, c. 776. He was in effect a harbinger of the English Reformation. add it to his own domains. In the later 8th cent., Kent was struggling to retain its independence against the growing power of Mercia. As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. The battle has been labelled the first recorded sea battle in British history. Incredibly, the Cathedral survived. The next day, they slipped away to Southampton en route to Russia, where they spent the rest of their lives. The Nore is an anchorage off Sheerness that gave its name to an infamous mutiny. rebuilt great part of this With the Napoleonic Wars over, the Royal Navy had unused resource. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. Fanned by the wind, the fire passed from The Wall along Harbour Street and Marine Street, and soon formed such a firestorm that distant features could be seen as though it were daylight. The rail crash that occurred on Wednesday, August 24th, 1927 was not just fatal. He showed eight clips, one of which was Rough Sea at Dover. In the east window is a shield of arms, Lennard, in Charing Heath flying bomb: Old Bunyard, 2020. Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. Experiments at Lydd in 1886 evaluated the use of balloons for observing artillery fire, and land was hired at Lidsing for training camps. This he undertook to do at his home, Baldwyns Manor, Bexley. The incident was marked with an oast-house shaped memorial at Hadlow church. year of queen Elizabeth, in whose descendants this Perversely, James I reversed the trend in 1604 by making even injury by witchcraft a capital offence. William was no fool, however. Badly beaten on London Bridge, the rebels withdrew; Cade was hunted down and slain. 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