Aerial view of the Sandwich Bay Estate, Kent, looking towards Deal.
Sandwich Bay Estate is a private housing estate on the coast of Sandwich Bay, between The Royal Cinque Ports and Royal St Georges Golf Courses. The estate is accessed via a toll road. Sandwich Bay has featured in English history from very early times, due to its potential as an invasion site. The first Roman landing took place at Deal two miles to the south and later at the Stour estuary. In the 18th century it was a favourite haunt of smugglers. The Coastguard cottages within their fortified compound were built to deter illicit landings. The land was part of the Guildford estate from the 19th century and was duneland and marsh. The founding of then St. Georges Golf Club in 1885 brought the estate to the notice of property developers – The Guildford Hotel and Princes Golf Club were built in 1903 with a narrow gauge railway from a wharf on the Stour to carry the building materials. It was later used to carry coal and guests. A major development scheme to create a new resort town was drawn up around 1908, including an esplanade with shops and restaurants. The development was planned to extend as far as Royal Cinque Ports golf course to the south. In the event only Kings Avenue, North Road, Princes Drive and Waldershare Avenue were laid out before World War I prevented the scheme being implemented. Some properties were completed, The Hazard, Middle Cottage and Fourth Green in 1906 and a farmhouse which was expanded to become Beadles. In 1910, Lord and Lady Astor built Rest Harrow as a summer home followed by Whiitehall, The Dunes, Fairways, and Small Downs House, the original name of Kentlands. As a private estate, in 1923 the owner applied for and was granted the right to charge a toll for access to the beach and to pass through to Deal. The 1920s saw Sandwich Bay become fashionable. The then Prince of Wales rented various houses, including Small Downs House, while his mistress Mrs Freda Dudley Ward rented Fourth Green every summer from 1920 to
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Location: Sandwich Bay, Sandwich, Kent
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