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1<body><aside aria-label="Sidebar" id="sidebar" class="d-flex flex-column align-items-end"><header class="profile-wrapper"> <a href="/" id="avatar" class="rounded-circle"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://www.kent-maps.online/assets/img/favicons/favicon.svg" width="112" height="112" alt="avatar" onerror="this.style.display='none'"></a> <a class="site-title d-block" href="/">Kent Maps Online</a><p class="site-subtitle fst-italic mb-0">Exploring Kent's History, Landscapes, and Literature.</p></header><nav class="flex-column flex-grow-1 w-100 ps-0"><ul class="nav"><li class="nav-item active"> <a href="/" class="nav-link"> <i class="fa-fw fas fa-home"></i> <span>HOME</span> </a><li class="nav-item"> <a href="/about/" class="nav-link"> <i class="fa-fw fas fa-info-circle"></i> <span>ABOUT</span> </a><li class="nav-item"> <a href="/categories/" class="nav-link"> <i class="fa-fw fas fa-stream"></i> <span>CATEGORIES</span> </a><li class="nav-item"> <a href="/tags/" class="nav-link"> <i class="fa-fw fas fa-tags"></i> <span>TAGS</span> </a><li class="nav-item"> <a href="/archives/" class="nav-link"> <i class="fa-fw fas fa-archive"></i> <span>ARCHIVES</span> </a></ul></nav><div class="sidebar-bottom d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center w-100"><div class="btn-group dropup"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-link nav-link" aria-label="Switch Mode" id="mode-toggle" data-bs-toggle="dropdown" ><i class="fa-regular fa-sun" data-theme-mode="light"></i><i class="fa-regular fa-moon" data-theme-mode="dark"></i><i class="fa-solid fa-display" data-theme-mode="system"></i></button><ul class="dropdown-menu rounded-3 mb-1 p-1"><li> <button class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" type="button" data-theme-mode="light"><i class="fa-regular fa-sun" data-theme-mode="light"></i>Light</button><li> <button class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" type="button" data-theme-mode="dark"><i class="fa-regular fa-moon" data-theme-mode="dark"></i>Dark</button><li> <button class="dropdown-item d-flex align-items-center" type="button" data-theme-mode="system"><i class="fa-solid fa-display" data-theme-mode="system"></i>System</button></ul></div><span class="icon-border"></span> <a href="https://github.com/kent-map" aria-label="github" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" > <i class="fab fa-github"></i> </a> <a href="javascript:location.href = 'mailto:' + ['carolyn.oulton','canterbury.ac.uk'].join('@')" aria-label="email" > <i class="fas fa-envelope"></i> </a> <a href="/feed.xml" aria-label="rss" > <i class="fas fa-rss"></i> </a> <a href="/admin" aria-label="admin"> <i class="fa-brands fa-readme"></i> </a> <a id="view-toggle" href="#" role="button" aria-label="view mode toggle" style="display:none;cursor:pointer;" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <i class=""></i> </a></div></aside><div id="main-wrapper" class="d-flex justify-content-center"><div class="container d-flex flex-column px-xxl-5"><header id="topbar-wrapper" class="flex-shrink-0" aria-label="Top Bar"><div id="topbar" class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-between px-lg-3 h-100" ><nav id="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"> <span>Home</span></nav><button type="button" id="sidebar-trigger" class="btn btn-link" aria-label="Sidebar"> <i class="fas fa-bars fa-fw"></i> </button><div id="topbar-title"> Kent Maps Online</div><button type="button" id="search-trigger" class="btn btn-link" aria-label="Search"> <i class="fas fa-search fa-fw"></i> </button> <search id="search" class="align-items-center ms-3 ms-lg-0"> <i class="fas fa-search fa-fw"></i> <input class="form-control" id="search-input" type="search" aria-label="search" autocomplete="off" placeholder="Search..." > </search> <button type="button" class="btn btn-link text-decoration-none" id="search-cancel">Cancel</button></div></header><div class="row flex-grow-1"><main aria-label="Main Content" class="col-12 col-lg-11 col-xl-9 px-md-4"><link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/entreluma.css"><style> .sidebar-bottom > [href^="https://github.com"] { display: none !important; }</style>
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1<style> .banner { width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; background-position: center; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; }</style><div class="banner" style="background-image: url('/assets/img/hero.jpg');"></div><h1>Welcome to Kent Maps Online!</h1><p> Kent Maps Online is an open access, Digital Heritage project developed by Canterbury Christ Church University in collaboration with JSTOR Labs. Our aim is to start new conversations between researchers across all disciplines, with a shared interest in the history of Kent.</p><p> Entries draw on a range of archival sources including: maps, pictures and postcards, manuscript records and newspapers. Click on the pin or image icons to view historic maps or pictures integrated into each article.</p><p> The site is fully searchable, with hyperlinks on each page, to help you find your own answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet.</p><div id="post-index" class="post-index view-list flex-grow-1 px-xl-1"><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/built/dale-street-chatham/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Pedestrianised_section_of_Dale_Street%2C_Chatham_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1383003.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Dale Street, Chatham</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">In this article Helen Counsell remembers her childhood living in Dale Street, Chatham.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1782255600" data-df="ll" > Jun 24, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> built </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/20c/20c-nevill-ground-suffrage/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Nevill_Pavilion%2C_Royal_Tunbridge_Wells.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Women's Cricket and the Suffragette Movement in Kent</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">A suffragette attack on the Nevill Ground Cricket Pavilion at Tunbridge Wells shocked pre-war kent as women challenged their subjugated roles in society and their invisibility in sport.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1781046000" data-df="ll" > Jun 10, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> 20c </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/15c/15c-thomas-cheyne/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Minster_Abbey%2C_The_Sir_Thomas_Cheyne_%281485-1558%29_monument_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5227654.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Sir Thomas Cheyne: Sheppey’s Forgotten Knight</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Like most families of nobility during the early modern period, the Cheynes could trace their lineage back to the Norman Conquest. Thomas Cheyne was born c. 1485, the son of William de Cheyne and Ma...</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1779318000" data-df="ll" > May 21, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> 15c </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/21c/suffocation-on-sea/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/ARCADE.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Suffocation on Sea</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">A neurodivergent perspective of visiting Herne Bay</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1778367600" data-df="ll" > May 10, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> 21c </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/churches/christianity-in-kent/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/St_Augustine%27s_Monastery%2C_Kent.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">How Christianity Came to Kent</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">The arrival of Christianity in England</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1778367600" data-df="ll" > May 10, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> churches </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/built/fort-pitt-grammar/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Asylum_for_insane_soldiers%2C_Fort_Pitt%2C_Chatham%2C_Kent._1857.png" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Fort Pitt Grammar School</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">In this article Helen Counsell remembers her time at Fort Pitt Grammar School in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and looks back at the history of the school site.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1776207600" data-df="ll" > Apr 15, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> built </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/20c/20c-morey-ford-biography/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Julius_Olsson-The_Night_Patrol_-_Canadian_Motor_Torpedo_Boats_Entering_Dover_Harbour_%28CWM_19710261-0538%29.jpeg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">The Raid of Dover</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">An article about Douglas Morey Ford's 1910 novel The Raid of Dover written for Dover at Night 2026.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1773792000" data-df="ll" > Mar 18, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> 20c </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/landscape/tree-roundels/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Tree_roundels_and_blossom.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Tree roundels</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Tree roundels of stately oaks grace the landscape south of Canterbury.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1773446400" data-df="ll" > Mar 14, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> landscape </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/20c/20c-on-the-marsh/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Harold_Gilman_-_Romney_Marsh_-_B1975.4.329_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">On The Marsh</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Romney Marsh prompts a particular kind of watchfulness, something close to unease. It is the perfect setting for literary crime.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1770508800" data-df="ll" > Feb 8, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> 20c </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card">
1 <a href="/landscape/sense-place/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kent-map/images/main/banners/HollarThenorthprospect.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Landscape Art and Canterbury Cathedral</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Landscape art around Canterbury Cathedral charts a shift from idealized seventeenth-century panoramas to nineteenth-century pastoral and picturesque scenes that fold piety, power, and leisure into views of fields, rivers, and sky. Engravings and paintings by Hollar, the Buck brothers, Palmer, and others show how patronage, Anglican authority, and new mobility such as the railway reshaped what the cathedral meant within its rural setting.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1767225600" data-df="ll" > Jan 1, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> landscape </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/landscape/coopers-pit/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dmceci9t1/image/fetch/w_1200,c_limit/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Cooper%27s_Pit.jpg" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Cooper's Pit</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Cooper’s Pit in Wincheap, Canterbury preserves a rare inland chalk exposure that links Cretaceous marine fossils, flint bands, and later Thanet Sand instability to modern risks such as sinkholes and runoff-driven cliff collapse. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century lime quarrying and rail-linked kilns reshaped the site, and post-1975 closure left an overgrown industrial landscape now pressured by nearby housing development.</p><button class="post-excerpt-toggle" type="button" aria-expanded="false">More</button></div><div class="post-meta flex-grow-1 d-flex align-items-end"><div class="me-auto"> <i class="far fa-calendar fa-fw me-1"></i> <time data-ts="1767225600" data-df="ll" > Jan 1, 2026 </time> <span class="ms-2"> <i class="far fa-folder-open fa-fw me-1"></i> <span class="categories"> landscape </span> </span></div></div></div></a></article><article class="post-index-item card-wrapper card"> <a href="/landscape/cathedral-landscape/" class="post-index-link"><div class="post-index-media"><div class="preview-img shimmer"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Harvest_Time_at_Wincheap_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=index&utm_content=original" alt="Preview Image" loading="lazy"></div></div><div class="post-index-body card-body d-flex flex-column"><h2 class="post-index-title card-title my-2 mt-md-0">Canterbury Cathedral in its Landscape Setting</h2><div class="post-index-excerpt card-text content post-excerpt-wrap mt-0 mb-3"><p class="post-excerpt">Canterbury Cathedral’s towers shape how people read the surrounding hills, orchards, water meadows, and suburbs from the medieval period to the present. Early modern and modern maps, along with accounts of paths, agriculture, and industry, reveal how cartography and viewpoint privilege civic power while obscuring lived routes, labour, and contested land. 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