News, Local history and Thanet issues from Michael's Bookshop in Ramsgate see www.michaelsbookshop.com I publish over 200 books about the history of this area click here to look at them.
One of the oldest historical accounts of The Isle of Thanet is that of William Lambarde in his Perambulation of Kent first published in 1570, I have copied the relevant pages from the 1826 edition for your amusement and edification.
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I knew a bit about the St Augustine connection with Cliffsend/Ebbsfleet, but had no idea that this is also where Hengist and Horsa landed.
ReplyDeleteIt is also nice to know that even then Thanet was discribed as divorced from the mainland, I've always subscribed to the idea that we are a completly different breed to your normal mainlander.
Rear View Mirror, if Thanet’s early history interests you I strongly recommend reading John Lewis’s history, we have both a modern reprint and an antiquarian copy available in the shop.
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