The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 148 THE DOVER ROAD <i;rcat number of Roman })ots and fragments of pottery turned up there by the plough. Tlie name of Keycol Hill, too, is said to have had a Roman origin, and Hasted derives it from Caii Collis, or Caius Julius Cyesar's Hill. Finally, the modern roadside hamlet of Key Street, between Newington and Sittingbourne, is said to owe its name to Caii Stratuvi, or Caius Street. The inn at Key Street, now ealled the ' Key,' was previously to 1733 known as the ' Ship.' It stands
The Dover road annals The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike doverroadannalso00harp Year: 1922 148 THE DOVER ROAD <i;rcat number of Roman })ots and fragments of pottery turned up there by the plough. Tlie name of Keycol Hill, too, is said to have had a Roman origin, and Hasted derives it from Caii Collis, or Caius Julius Cyesar's Hill. Finally, the modern roadside hamlet of Key Street, between Newington and Sittingbourne, is said to owe its name to Caii Stratuvi, or Caius Street. The inn at Key Street, now ealled the ' Key,' was previously to 1733 known as the ' Ship.' It stands near the hill-top where Key Street eommences, and commands a long, straight dip of the road towards KEY STREET. Sittingbourne, whose outlying houses are just beyond the farthest clump of trees. The chance wayfarer little thinks how abundant are the vestiges of antiquity here, both in fragments of pottery, and in the time-honoured names of manors, fields, and meadows. Such things are only to be brought to light by the painstaking local historian who has access to Court Rolls and ancient estate maps. It is little known or considered by the dwellers in populous towns that almost every meadow, field, croft, pasture, down, or woodland has its name, as distinct
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