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From Upper Upnor and Higham Upshire Danger ranges To the Pinnacle, the Binnacle, the Buttway and the Brimp venture centres Ripple Vale Villas, Cooling Castle Cottages, Havisham House and Rookery Nook static caravans Merryboys Stables, Berrycourt Cattery, Stoney Rocks Orchard and Chattenden Barracks. and power stations; radar scanners The adventuring Pococks of Upnor, the unfortunate Comports of Cooling speed cameras Master of the Rolls - Sir Harbottle Grimston coastguard cottages The Pympes of Loose and the leader of the Lollards and roadside bouquets. Stephen Springott, Richard Duppa Turbutt, Buckhole Billy and the Boghursts of Binney Widow Wiseman, Goody Hubbard, and Henry Pye – the King of the Hundred. Clinch Street Decoy Fleet Romney sheep, rapeseed, soft fruit and beefstock Pip’s Graves Berries for punnets and seedheads for birdfeed and Pepys Way; Hop vines, wurzel crops, pea seed sales and greengages Cold Arbour To dwarf wheat, purple sprouting broccoli, and potatoes in rotation. Frindsbury Extra Orchards of apples - Bramleys, Braeburns, Coxes, Russets, Galas and Spartans Whalebone Marshes Hectares of pears - Comice and Conference, from grafts of twigs on rootstocks of quince and Powder Monkey Lane. And tons of plums - Marjorie Seedling, Belle de Louvain, Sanctus Hubertus, Verity, Valour, Opal and Victoria, Kentish Damsons and early Hermans. Orchard farms pasture marsh Lapwings, Redshanks, Gadwall and Godwits weatherboard Nesting Herons and breeding Egrets and pebbledash; Nightingales, Water Voles, Sea Lavender and Bluebells flint widths Ruddy Darters, Migrant Hawkers, Turtle Doves and Tortoiseshells. ragstone bands ballast pits and bunwalls. A charnel house and cockleshell vestry A headstone for Trood and floorslab for Stunt; Hog Marsh, Frog Hall Seven speaking stops and a squint. Swigshole Shadowy happenings at Shade House and Bucks Pounds; Lombardy poplars as windbreakers on lanes Gore Green, Willow Wick Sarsen stones in a four-poster at Three Crutches Chalk Lump And old counter walls to counter old waters. and Hope Mound. Upchat Road goes as it says – It means high, or hill From Upnor to Chattenden, and Chattenden back down again; or jutting out lump Homewards Road leads in a loop to Allhallows or spur of land, And the Isle ends where the Medway meets, but probably not woe, At Grain Tower, No.1 The Thames. does Hoo. .

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№ 111 Spring 2019 THE OLDEST AND LARGEST SOCIETY DEVOTED TO THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE ANCIENT COUNTY OF KENT Wrotham Sheerness East Farleigh A straight-tusked elephant From medieval palace The Royal Dockyard: MAAG update Found at Upnor in 1911 garden to bowling green Where are we now? 05 18 24 28 ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL’S FRAGMENTS OF HISTORY President Hon. Editor Dr Gerald Cramp Terry G. Lawson [email protected] Vice Presidents Mr L.M. Clinch Hon. Curator Mr R.F. Legear Dr Elizabeth Blanning [email protected] Hon. General Secretary Clive Drew Hon. Librarian [email protected] Ruiha Smalley [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Barrie Beeching Press [email protected] Vacant Hon. Membership Secretary Newsletter Mrs Shiela Broomfield Richard Taylor [email protected] [email protected] WELCOME FROM THE EDITOR Welcome to the Spring 2019 Newsletter. skills in the process, to survey approximately 250,000 square metres of agricultural land, the results of Following a relatively quiet winter, we have an issue which are a feature on pages 15–17 of this issue. packed with a variety of fieldwork, historical research projects and discussion. The Letters to the Editor For me, the best way to increase the Society’s section has taken off in this issue with members membership is continued engagement and learning commenting on previously featured articles; this – get people involved, try new activities, learn new extended discussion is a long-term aim of the skills and make contributions to our County’s fantastic Newsletter and one, I hope, the Membership continues.
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