England's topographer, or A new and complete history of the county of Kent; from the earliest records to the present time, including every modern improvementEmbellished with a series of views from original drawings by GeoShepherd, HGastineau, &cwith historical, topographical, critical, & biographical delineations . erected on either side of the high road conducting to theIsle of Thanet. The church is to the westward, near it formerlystood Sturry court, a building of the period of James I. andsutHcient in raao-nitude for the residence of the Lord Strangfords,who were its owners. It was afterwar
England's topographer, or A new and complete history of the county of Kent; from the earliest records to the present time, including every modern improvementEmbellished with a series of views from original drawings by GeoShepherd, HGastineau, &cwith historical, topographical, critical, & biographical delineations . erected on either side of the high road conducting to theIsle of Thanet. The church is to the westward, near it formerlystood Sturry court, a building of the period of James I. andsutHcient in raao-nitude for the residence of the Lord Strangfords,who were its owners. It was afterwards converted to the pur-poses of a farm-house. There was formerly a bridge over thestream at this place, as early as the reign of Edward II. TheStour, when the survey of Domesday was taken, presented astream of much greater magnitude than it has displayed for along succession of years; for it appears that, although therewere only twenty-eight acres of meadow land, there were thenten mills and seven fisheries. On the opposite side of the village eastward, on the Margateroad, the hill rises northward, over which the route conducts toHeme, over a barren soil. King Ethtlbert, on founding the abbeyof St. Augustine, settled upon it this parish of Sturigao, other- JJ^i-a? :s«-:r-! ;«•• ?vr?^r;?Ci?^V- ?rc. ?^1
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