On their release, the Kent five were banqueted in London, and hailed as heroes back in Maidstone. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. On August 20, In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. The Government attributed the storm to Gods anger with the nation, and ordered a day of fasting as penance. Alice Arden of Faversham decided with her low-born lover Thomas Mosby to murder her husband, former mayor Thomas Arden. Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. Sidney, he was created lord viscount Lisle, and that The county had little practice in shifting pachyderms around, its only previous experience being one that arrived at Sandwich with the Romans in AD 43. JOHN CHARMAN by will, gave 20s. of Otford, the archbishop's house commonly called the (fn. death in the 6th year of king Edward II. A month later, Britain sued for peace. She, a lady-in-waiting to his wife Jacqueline dHainault, was his mistress. For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. side of the altar for Robert Polhill, gent. So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. This story of outstanding heroism travelled around the world. Thirty were drowned. For safety reasons, it was only a rail tunnel. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. The only wonder is that no more than 13 were killed and 21 injured. was returned, that Otford was a parsonage, rented at 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. Four aircrew survived and, arming themselves with the planes machine guns, ran off after planting an explosive device. and queen Elizabeth, afterwards made several grants of The earthquake occurred a year after the Kent-based Peasants Revolt, and was a sure sign of Gods displeasure with either the King or the rebels, according to perspective. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. Cnut became undisputed king, and for once did something laudable: he had Eadric put to death. Badly beaten on London Bridge, the rebels withdrew; Cade was hunted down and slain. He took a sympathetic approach to Indian nationalist concerns, for which reason he was relatively popular. Other ships flashed a warning, but were ignored because Captain Wilkie was asleep. Although 500 rebels were initially routed at Hartley Wood, many Royalist troops defected, as did militia sent from London. Britain was still reeling from the psychological catastrophe of WW1. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. The case emphasised the importance of making the new Automatic Warning System generally available. it would have been but little known had it not been Marching from Dover to London in October 1215, King John found his path blocked by Rochester Castle, which controlled the river crossing. and a fair was held at Otford on his anniversary. being a most commodious and favorite retirement for Around the age of 40, she took a shine to her doctor, whose wife she secretly poisoned, though not fatally, with a chocolate cream. It brought the first schism in Protestantism, exacerbated by the fact that it was able to run its own separate services. In 1256, the Bishop persuaded Pope Alexander IV to canonise William, and a shrine was built. Thanks for that Craggs, often it seems that on old battlefields no skeletons have survived. He therefore headed for Lympne airport. of the archbishop of Canterbury. October 4th, 1624 brought a storm described as a terrible gale, the like of which has never been seen which was really saying something among a nation of seafarers. 349 men died; just one stoker survived. Before long, Kirkby was obliged to merge the Post into the new title, which has continued to serve Canterbury as a weekly until the present day. It even had its own cemetery containing 7,000 burials, with poignant memorials to nurses who had died at suspiciously young ages. Under these terms Cnut gained Mercia and payment for his army, while Edmund held Wessex. present owner of it. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. Charles would personally receive a monumental bribe from France, plus the help of French troops in case of rebellion. whose sister Mary, about 1790; sold it to This First Dutch War started well, when the Dutch fled the Battle of the Kentish Knock in September. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. the crown, where it continues at this time. In 1511, the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Warham, took a zero-tolerance stance. The remainder however headed for their secondary targets, Folkestone harbour and the Shorncliffe army camp. the wall, ornamented with Gothic carved work, but the inscription is lost. More stayed in Dover, but most moved on to Canterbury, which acquired the largest foreign population outside London. Being unreliable, however, she was eventually converted to a man-of-war. river from that of Shoreham, now claims the reputation of a manor, and is called OTFORD NEW PARK. Though Canterbury had more than once experienced Viking aggression, nothing prepared it for what happened in 1011. Edmund, surnamed Ironside, passing the river Thames It lies on the River Darent, 3 miles (5 km) north of Sevenoaks. Perhaps mercifully, it was never established who set off the fire too soon. Though most of England had given up, the young new king took the battle to the Danes. Like Hengist before him, he had arrived as a mercenary, but now had an appetite for conquest. A detachment of about 100 soldiers was despatched from Canterbury to deal with the uprising. Battle of the Medway: John Fawkes, 2020 from BritishBattles.com. A policeman on a bicycle managed to catch up with him after a half-hour low-speed pursuit. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane 10). When Christopher Cockerells SR.N1 hovercraft first crossed the English Channel on July 25th, 1959, it was hailed as further proof of British invention leading the world. They realised they needed to suspend the thread with silk to avoid contact with the ground, and so discovered the principle of insulation. Some diehards held out in Essex, but it was curtains for King Charles: he was beheaded in January. Offa, king of Mercia, having already joined to his dominion most part of Wessex and Northumberland; She flew to stardom at 26 by becoming the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia, her first of several long-distance firsts. 150 workmen built the frame using 6,000 trees, mostly oak, at a cost equating to around 9 million. Their efforts were soon supplemented with use of the redundant Martello towers, and new stations were built every three miles from Sheppey to Lydd. One reason why Kent played a singular part in the early years of civil aviation was that aircraft were popular for cross-Channel transportation; Lympne even had its own airport. The chapel of Otford, annexed to the parsonage of After failing to starve the defenders out, Louis agreed a truce in October. the All on board were lost. The bombers returned later that month, and in October a fighter-bomber attack killed 30 more. The aggrieved Margaret Thatcher insisted on a second tunnel for road traffic, but it never happened. Structural damage was also widespread. In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his imperial ambitions, and Britain declared war. Bizarrely, there had been no warning of the storms sudden genesis, and most were asleep when it raced past. Despite the jet engine having been invented in England by Frank Whittle, Germany led the way in making jet fighters operational, its Me 262 claiming over 500 Allied aircraft. Arriving out of the blue, they met with complete success: 95 men were killed, and 195 injured. village towards Chevening. 29th year of that reign, to the king, as has been already mentioned. The aftermath was a scrapyard a mile long that took nine hours to clear. since created He averaged 606 mph, a new world record. It was however the beginning of the end for him. There was great enthusiasm for going to war in August 1914. September 27th, 1940 saw the last armed confrontation between British troops and a foreign enemy on home soil. The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent. rats. estate has continued down to Charles Polhill, esq. In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. The blast, which killed 79 crew, had been caused by a fire in newspapers unaccountably tucked by Tyneside shipbuilders into the lagging of the midship magazine. It has been for some years possessed by the family of The curate of this church, in 1719, had a stipend them, particularly when the new turnpike road which In the late 1940s, the Gloster Meteor was the fastest aeroplane in the world; but pushing the envelope meant that its safety record was less than satisfactory. Edmund then forced another Danish army to abandon its siege of London. All the Germans needed was air supremacy to defend their transports from bomb and torpedo attacks; but this, according to Gring, was a formality. It started when depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on the A249 near Stockbury by fake police. The Kent Area aggressively picketed mines around the country that were returning to work, including Arthur Scargills own Barrow Colliery. when the possession of it again returned to Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they Furthermore, Englands humiliating inability to prevent this blatant breach of its territorial integrity became a factor in the later Anglo-Dutch Wars. Huguenot was another religious name coined as a term of derision. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. manoeuvres that ended in the battle of Otford. Edmund would overtake Cnut at the battle of Assandun on 18 October 1016, which was a victory for Cnut. Around midnight, a Dutch truck that had arrived from Zeebrugge was taken aside for investigation by customs officials. Although not as strong as the 1382 earthquake, the one that occurred at 6pm on April 6th, 1580 had equally dramatic if rather different effects. One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. With Maidstone Prison having opened by 1831, it was hoped that public hangings there would attract big town-centre crowds. Among them was being blamed for the death of the corrupt Duke of Suffolk, who had been washed up on the Kent coast. After all, Britain ruled the waves. The train behaved strangely, rolling excessively when going fast around bends. Some members were burned in Canterbury; but, by the time the order for Harts arrest went out in 1557, he was already dead. Although young Prince Louiss exploits in England had earned him the sobriquet le Lion, the war was not over. The next morning, Tromp attacked with fire-ships as the enemy tried to break out. Though some became infected, they regarded it as an occupational hazard. The King mounted a major siege that the Contrariants opted not to interfere with. 17) all which were granted in the 1st and The flashpoint was her decision to marry the Catholic King of Spain, Philip II, prompting a conspiracy by Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Sir Peter Carew, Sir James Croft, and Lady Janes father, the Duke of Suffolk. Although Becket had never been at all popular with the public, the manner and place of his murder caused outrage, and the Cathedral was presented with a perfect martyr who would help turn pilgrimages to Canterbury into a world-famous institution. Investigation revealed that it was a people-smuggling exercise organised by a Chinese snakehead gang. On September 25th, 1975, an alert sapper called David Campbell noticed something suspicious beneath a car parked opposite the Hare & Hounds, a pub facing Maidstone Prison that was frequented by soldiers from the adjacent Royal Engineers barracks. The ship was soon in such straits that the crew cut off two masts. The Battle of Brentford (1016) was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Canute landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Ashingdon) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Canute. In 1724, the dean After witnessing the 1857 Indian Mutiny, Allan Hume, the son of a Radical MP, came to the conclusion that Indians needed a forum to express discontent, especially concerning agrarian policy. 4) reserved Otford to the The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. In April 1803, Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his imperial ambitions, and Britain declared war. The Fifth of November was to be remembered for all the wrong reasons in 1967. To France be words of invitation sent! He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. Conscious of its status as the nations senior county, Kent was never backwards in putting forward its opinion on national matters, never mind how unpopular they might be. Oakwood Hospital fire: Barming Asylum now Oakwood Hospital. That same year, a storm further east caused the death of 50,000 in Holland. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. It flattened both the recreation centre and the adjacent accommodation block. Certainly it disturbed the Earthquake Synod in Blackfriars, where the Archbishop of Canterbury construed it as a portent endorsing the persecution of supposed heretics. Needless to say, Though witches are associated with the Middle Ages, settling scores with an allegation of witchcraft was still commonplace in the C17; and East Kent was a hotspot of indictments. they continued down to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, Wishing to experiment further, he involved his friend Reverend Granville Wheler while visiting Otterden Place in June 1729. There was no desire for regime change; but the nation spiralled downwards as the impasse continued. It remained there for four years, but was then taken to South Kensington. On January 28th, 1896, he went hurtling through Paddock Wood at 8 miles an hour, well in excess of the 2 mph limit. The liberty of the duchy of Lancaster claims over a 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. The Battle of Otfordwas a battle fought in 776 between Mercia, led by King Offa, and the Jutes of Kent at Otford (in what is today in the English county of Kent). The source was identified as the spring at Farleigh supplying parts of Maidstone with water, which had probably been polluted by hop-pickers down from London. Someone produced an inflated pigs bladder, the football of its day. last-mentioned battle with the Danes was fought. The cause was never definitively established. Grid Ref : TQ8659093590. On May 29, The Dutch attack on the Royal Navy in the. In 1015 Eadric killed Sigeferth and Morcar, the chief thanes of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, for unknown reasons, but it would seem that this prompted Edmund Ironside, Aethelred's eldest surviving son, to act to counter Eadric's growing influence. On June 1st, he was confronted by a force of 4,000 New Model Army veterans under Sir Thomas Fairfax. The conflagration soon grew so intense that nothing could be done, and the Crystal Palace burnt to the ground. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the The calamity on July 11th, 1927 at the Gillingham charity fair was as harrowing as can be imagined, even in a nightmare. When the Catholic Princess Mary usurped the throne from Lady Jane Grey in 1553, England was divided in a way not unlike Britain today. After ordering his kinsmen not to pay a ransom, Aelfheah was pelted with animal bones at a drunken feast in Greenwich and murdered with an axe-butt. The ship was literally blown to pieces. whilst at it; among others, that the archbishop finding . Its most famous alumni are Christopher Marlowe and Sir William Harvey, although the one best known to todays pupils is probably childrens author Sir Michael Morpurgo. Seaman Thomas Atkins was swept from the sinking Mary onto the deck of the Stirling Castle, which itself was about to capsize. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. exchanged by archbishop Cranmer with Henry VIII. It is astonishing to think that the worlds largest democracy traces its origins to a civil servant born in St Mary Cray. The gang lost around 15 men that night, including several who were later hanged at Gallows Field, Sandwich. The boys motive became a national talking-point. He equipped that ship, the East Goodwin Lightship, for radioing the South Foreland Lighthouse, which was instantly in touch with the Ramsgate lifeboat. On May 2nd, he completed three flights there, the longest being 1,500 feet. Although the Castle fell, Matildas forces eventually engaged Stephen in 1141 at Lincoln, where he was captured; but popular resistance to her accession barred her from formally becoming monarch. Edmund Ironside (c. 990 - 30 November 1016; Old English: admund, Latin: Edmundus; sometimes also known as Edmund II) was King of the English from 23 April to 30 November 1016. September 1967 was a watershed for the Beatles. Though 200 men battled frantically to put it out, the flames spread to the building, so all were ordered out. The French successfully undermined the Castle barbican, and then brought down one tower of the gatehouse; but their massed assault was bloodily repulsed. He was in fact travelling with his mistress Ellen Ternan and her mother. Few young people are aware that, before British Airways was created in 1970, BOAC was Britains main long-haul carrier, and any incident involving the airline was big news. The brainchild of martial arts expert Lee Murray-Lamrani, it was even bigger, better organised and more slickly executed than the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but like its predecessor was undone by carelessness during the money-laundering stage. In March 1769, however, he was in for a surprise. The winds are reckoned to have been equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. Several others were not so lucky. Version 5.0. The outbreak eased in the autumn, entered a second peak just before Christmas, and was effectively over by late January. [2] When Edmund died on 30 November 1016 Cnut gained the whole kingdom. One of these is in Ashingdon, Rochford in Essex. Uniquely among counties away from the Welsh and Scottish borders, Kent was granted the status of semi-autonomous County Palatine, so retaining some of its own laws. The accident was blamed on a faulty primer. Over the following century, it often suffered wind and sea damage, but remained in use until 1976, when it was closed for safetys sake. It only recovered when the growth of the Royal Dockyard added so much to the value of the Hospitals lands that the Crown even tried to sequestrate them. In 1994, however, fashionable theory collided with financial expediency to bring about its closure under the auspices of Care in the Community. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. others, to his kinsman, Sir Richard Betenson, bart It was finally dismantled in 1966 for another 1 million plus. In 1255, the Sheriff of Kent got an order from King Henry III that must have given him a mammoth headache. As the horrible reality sank in, firemen leapt into action, but too late. Oakwood Hospital is now the St Andrews residential estate. 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Because the Wright brothers wished to get their Flyers manufactured in Britain, an agent identified a former golf-course south of Leysdown where they could safely be tested; the Aero Club established its clubhouse there early in 1909. Under half the ships 500 crew survived, many of the dead being buried at Cheriton Road Cemetery, where a memorial now stands. After sailors mutinied and took over Deal, Sandwich, and Walmer, the Earl of Norwich landed, leading an armed insurrection in Kent and Essex coinciding with a revolt in Wales and invasion from Scotland. It was at the time the highest loss of life in a British road accident. The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. stained glass, being or on a sess gules, three fleurs de lis of the field, The cyclone that raced through southern England in the early hours of October 16th, 1987 is often mistakenly called a hurricane because of its hurricane-force gusts. Cnut (/ k nj u t /; Old English: Cnut cyning; Old Norse: Kntr inn rki [knutr n rik]; died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. After leaving politics, he discovered God. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. The record does not say who won, but the fact that King Egbert issued his own charters afterwards suggests a temporary reverse for the master. 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