It turned into a rout. Because of foul weather, by the 22nd she had still only reached Dungeness, where she was at anchor. The change was occasioned by the death of King Aethelberht II in 762. Following the Royalists crucial defeat at Maidstone in 1648, the position of Clerk of the Court at the Kings trial months later was aptly filled by Andrew Broughton, the towns Rutland-born mayor. Less than a month after being commissioned in May 1878, the SMS Grosser Kurfrst of the German Imperial Navy was sailing past Folkestone with two other German ironclads when two local boats were spotted crossing their path. In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. It remained in this location until 1870, when a larger and quieter replacement was built off the Tonbridge Road west of the river; but this too was replaced just sixty years later by the more spacious building that forms the hub of the current school. Late on the evening of Wednesday, November 16th, 1869, a fire broke out in Whitstable that turned into a major conflagration. 1699, t. In fact, it never worked right, and was abandoned after a few months. A man carrying a red warning-flag was positioned only 554 yards up the track, barely half the regulation distance, which was insufficient to allow the train to stop in time. Its first TV appearance was similarly blighted. There was competition, too, after Seaspeed set up a rival business. Of the 59 signatories of the Kings death warrant, four others were Kent men: John Dixwell of Dover, Sir Michael Livesey of Eastchurch, James Temple from Rochester, and Sir Hardress Waller of Chartham. The Dutch attack on the Royal Navy in the Medway in June 1667 was so expertly executed that it counts as Britains own Pearl Harbor. Though 200 men battled frantically to put it out, the flames spread to the building, so all were ordered out. Wall, vicar of Shoreham, whose only daughter and 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. Several others were not so lucky. in these battles; bones are continually discovered in The Admiral Gardner and the Britannia had three things in common: both were built in Blackwell, owned by the British East India Company, and doomed to the same watery end. Grid Ref : TQ8659093590. conveyed to that king a messuage, called BROUGHTON'S, and other premises in Otford, in exchange for His piety led him to undertake a pilgrimage to Canterbury, taking his ward with him. Cnut became undisputed king, and for once did something laudable: he had Eadric put to death. The foundation of the Kings School, Canterbury (597), fully co-educational in 1990. chapel to Shoreham, is a peculiar of the archbishop of extensive woods, and other lands for their pleasure and Broughton went on to serve in two Parliaments; but, after Oliver Cromwell died and the monarchy was restored, there came a reckoning. After fleeing to a friends house in Uckfield, East Sussex, he was never seen again. Although the Ordnance Survey is now most commonly associated in the public imagination with hiking and the like, its original purpose was military. After decades of low wages and high taxes, the spread of threshing machines was the last straw for farmworkers. Numerous ships were wrecked, mostly with all hands: HMS Restoration (387 lost), HMS Northumberland (220), HMS Stirling Castle (206), and HMS Mary (268) among many others. 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 signalled an end to the phoney peace, and the start of further hostilities that, by the summer, would turn to mortal conflict. 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. pounds; what Richard de Tonbridge holds in his lowy is David Polhill, esq. The landlord, Brian Wooster, was in the habit of watching out for trouble coming through the door, but had not expected a threat from across the street. Here was a seat inhabited for many A search of nearby houses yielded a dead smuggler in a cottage, alongside a dying one. Patrols from HMS Ganymede and HMS Ramillies regularly rowed ashore from the Downs to guard the coastline. his wife, daughter of John Polhill, esq. In truth, it was the start of a worse one. Wishing to experiment further, he involved his friend Reverend Granville Wheler while visiting Otterden Place in June 1729. exchanged by archbishop Cranmer with Henry VIII. Abree took on a successor, George Kirkby, and retired in 1768, at which point James Simmons launched the rival Kentish Gazette. The first of these was fought in the year 773, when Rail travel was never the safest in the Victorian era, and accidents were commonplace. She set off for London at 3.30am on Friday, March 29th. in his last year, The Bard, coincidentally, had an ancestor called Thomas Arden whod died shortly before. Eventually the doctor reported his suspicions, and she was tried for murder. A severe gale blew up that tore both from their moorings and onto the Goodwin Sands. His father, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook, was born in Canada, and his mother in Peshawar. It was plainly an effective tactic: English resistance folded when Cnut returned with a large army two years later. Both Popham and Coote, who was badly wounded, were freed soon afterwards in a prisoner exchange. . On May 27th, 1915, at 11.14 am, she exploded with ferocious force. 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. In 1914, Marconis research unit at Brooklands, Surrey was taken over by the Royal Flying Corps under the command of Major Charles Prince. Apart from cutting off the hands and feet of some who had agreed to leave the castle early, the King was persuaded to treat his prisoners with uncustomary clemency. They cost Germany a huge amount in manpower, materials and fuel that would have better been put into the Third Reichs defence of its Eastern Front. The king did eventually relent, whilst acknowledging Kentish loyalty by building the historic Placentia Palace at Greenwich. He marched his men to Northampton, where in July he won a major victory over the King. Her death sentence was commuted to life in Broadmoor. It was perhaps a portent: those two nations had just formed an alliance, and would both be at war with England that century. Luckily, his son Edmund Ironside was made of sterner stuff. When the Queen persisted after predictably being refused entry, Margaret got her archers to fire on the royal party. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. It caused quite a stir thereabouts. The Rother found a new outlet at Rye, which was elevated to the status of a Cinque Port at New Romneys expense. of the nobility and gentry of this county. 150 hogs. It them; adjoining to which they had two large parks, As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. one hundred pounds per annum, the house and glebe The two ended up merging in 1981, running services out of Dover, whereupon the Ramsgate hoverport ceased operating. A rare combination of tidal and meteorological conditions on January 31st, 1953 had dramatic consequences. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. It was in fact one of the bloodiest civilian incidents of the War. The project came in 80% over budget, the tunnel was long underused, and it is most familiar now for problems associated with illegal immigration. During the C13, there were six violent storms that wreaked havoc with Kents southern coastal towns. There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. and perceiving the weak estate of the kingdom of An inquest suggested that Rudd was subject to depression, and not of sound mind. chief baron of the exchequer, who died in 1778, as did All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. the valley, not far from the eastern banks of the Darent, across which another road branches off from the 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. The bloodstained boy, 19, reported that he had just murdered his 22-year-old brother George in bed, having premeditatedly beaten his head in with the blunt edge of a meat cleaver and finished him off with a dagger. with his other estates in this parish, in exchange, in the At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. It prompted the German governments prolonged reluctance to invest in new warships. Edmund then forced another Danish army to abandon its siege of London. At Otford, he won a sterling victory that saw the invaders fleeing to Sheppey. thelred dies Edmund Ironside chosen as king by London, and besieged there Cnut chosen as king by the rest of England at Southampton (?) Hartlake Bridge at Golden Green near Hadlow is a spot more likely to be associated with romantic poetry than a disaster. Stillman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. [4] Uhtred was forced to return north when Cnut began raiding his lands around Bamburgh, and was killed after submitting to Cnut. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. Following a failed attempt, he departed from Dovers Admiralty Pier on August 24th, 1875, covered in porpoise oil and accompanied by three boats. Simultaneously, his wife and child were abducted from their Herne Bay home. When King Sweyn died after just months on the English throne, his son Cnut was quickly driven out. Perversely, James I reversed the trend in 1604 by making even injury by witchcraft a capital offence. Between 1899 and 1914, he embarked on a new and lucrative practice: bigamy. and supreme sovereignty, the other between the Danes Penselwood, battle of, 1016. Unfortunately, in the short term, it would provide only short-term respite against an implacable foe. There Rumours circulated that he had honourably killed himself, and he was officially declared dead in 1999. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. Such ships of the line were divided into four ratings, according to their number of guns and crew. More botches followed before they finally succeeded; but they left the body in a field in a snowstorm, apparently unaware that their tracks would be left visible. It wasnt quite so simple. That demand was rebutted in 1635 by an English book, Mare Clausum (Closed Sea), to which Charles lent his weight by having this powerful ship built. After all, Britain ruled the waves. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. A crate of butter landed 6 miles away in Rainham, wreckage hit people in Sittingbourne, and severed heads were found in Hartlip and on the Isle of Grain. After the above survey, the honour of Otford was After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. The 2nd Dutch War had ended badly for Britain, not least because of the Kings financial mismanagement. Initial experiments were undertaken with a balloon hired from the outstanding Wouldham-born balloonist Henry Coxwell. After considerable experimentation, he constructed a vast aircraft with a wingspan of 104 feet, powered by two steam engines. palace excited the envy of the courtiers, passed it away, 80; he married Two torpedoes were fired, but only blew a hole in her. It started when depot manager Colin Dixon was kidnapped on the A249 near Stockbury by fake police. The Conqueror was no respecter of rights, but knew a sturdy opponent when he saw one. He set up a dealership in London selling fashionable Benz cars under his own Arnold brand. For two years, German bombing strategy depended on airships, but improved defences prompted the introduction of winged bombers under the codename Trkenkreuz: Operation Turks Cross. The Kentish rebellion of Spring 1648 went further than football. Eanswiths bones were reburied within the walls of its chapel, which stood on the site of todays St Mary and St Eanswythes Church. Strangely, though he was hanged, she was burned at the stake, having been found guilty of petty treason against a superior, namely a man. Ten buildings had been destroyed, along with 30 vehicles. (fn. 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In 1873 he read of JB Johnsons failed attempt to swim the English Channel, and decided to try for himself. 10s. The impartial gentry of Kent presented a petition asking the Long Parliament to compromise with the King, particularly by renouncing its claim to controlling the militia. Having served its purpose at the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, the Crystal Palace was rebuilt at the top of Sydenham Hill. Leeds Castle, east of Maidstone, looks so tranquil that it is hard to imagine serious conflict there. Three years later, a specialist hoverport opened in Pegwell Bay. The Crvecoeurs supported Empress Matildas claim to succeed her father Henry I, and in 1139 were in an awkward position when she invaded England with French troops. The incident did have a funny side. The atmosphere was oppressively muggy, and eventually turned to storms; yet nobody expected what happened on Thursday, May 25th. At Uplees, on what is now the Oare Marsh Nature Reserve, an explosives factory stood next door to the Explosive Loading Company. 1727. There is one word to say to anyone who demands that the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery off Sheppey be disarmed: Kielce! Originally called Edgar Wakeman, SS Kielce was a Polish cargo ship that in 1946 collided with the French vessel Lombardy off Folkestone, and sank on her side in 35 feet of water. Nevertheless, Hoverspeeds days were numbered. Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. At least it raised a cheer in the fundraising Irish nationalist bars of New York, Chicago, and Boston. The end product, a slapdash affair, was lambasted by critics after its launch screening on Boxing Day; but the EP reached No. rout to the Isle of Shepey, and had he not desisted As crowds watched from the clifftops, three rescue boats put out. So comprehensive was the destruction that the remains had to be demolished. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. The Captain appealed to Bismarck to take it up, but he fortunately was busy planning war on Austria. called in Saxon, OTTANFORD, in the book of Domesday, OTEFORT, and in the Textus Roffensis, OTTEFORD; for it is observable, that the syllable an, when In September 1174, the building was again engulfed in flames, suffering major damage. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. possessed in undivided thirds, by Mompesson, Hyde, A suspect in a woolly hat was seen running off. Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, was central to one of the great criminal mysteries of the C20. At 6.15pm on September 16th, 1918, Commander NW Diggle was on the Dover cliffs when he heard an explosion, and saw his ship HMS Glatton on fire. On his return, he was greeted by a crowd of over 3,000. Of the 130 who were rescued, many died later from poisoning. Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. It was ten years old and ten feet high, and Louis had been gifted it by the Egyptians, who were after an alliance against the Syrians. Wyatts 4,000-strong force was nevertheless repulsed at Southwark by London loyalists, and instead crossed the Thames at Kingston. The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 between invading forces of the Kingdom of Denmark under Cnut and the defending forces of the Kingdom of England led by Edmund Ironside. Now the demesne of Fortunately, the scientific revolution would soon be delineating the difference between truth and self-serving superstition. The mother of them arrived in February 1287, striking with such violence that there was widespread flooding. The encounter was all perfectly civilised. After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. 30th year of his reign; (fn. By 1922, the country was settling down again after WW1. HMS Truculent, a submarine, had served in the Pacific during WW2. Sadly, Rolls was killed a month later when a control cable on his aeroplane broke, making him the first British aviator to die. No risks were taken, and all River Class engines were withdrawn until they had been rebuilt to a new design. An old woman who complained at Blackheath about the Kings treatment of her was rewarded with execution. Without his leadership, the rebellion fizzled out. For the avoidance of confusion, it was called Margate Jetty, but confusion resumed after it was impressively transformed in 1875 into a tourist destination popularly known as Margate Pier. inclosed within it, parcel of the honour of Otford, for the title of Terra Archiepi Cantuariensis, i. e. the land through Surry, into Kent, and encountering the Danes resided from time to time, as appears by their frequent Otford. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. Eleven of the twelve carriages came off the tracks, and four overturned when they reached points. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. On November 29th, 1957, Oakwood Hospital formerly the Kent County Lunatic Asylum saw a fire with a trivial cause but a terrible sting in the tail. Operation Sealion: IWM COL 238. The bill was passed. One of these is in Ashingdon, Rochford in Essex. This time, Louis gave up for good. With the whole area ablaze, it could be seen from miles around. was taxed at 8 sulings. surviving son, Sir Robert Sidney, by letters patent, Sir George Harper, anno 33 king Henry VIII. their arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three He circulated a manifesto called The Complaint of the Poor Commons of Kent, airing the peoples grievances. The first Navigation Act in 1651 aimed to hamper Dutch shipping, and inevitably stoked tensions. A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. Over in low-lying Holland, 1,836 died. The motives of the French are unclear, though it could have been a pre-emptive strike in support of the baguette. On July 30th, 1652, seven witches were tried by Sir Peter Warburton at Maidstone Assizes: Anne Ashby, Mary Browne, Anne Martyn, Anne Wilson, and Mildred Wright of Cranbrook, Mary Reade of Lenham, and Elizabeth Hynes. He was the son of King thelred the Unready and his first wife, lfgifu of York.Edmund's reign was marred by a war he had inherited from his father; his cognomen "Ironside" was given to him "because of his valour . . The city resisted his assault for three weeks, until the siege succeeded on account of the treachery of a certain Aelfmaer. On January 11th, 1947, there occurred an extraordinary episode that left people wondering what had gone right. The antagonists were Spain and Holland, and the warzone the Downs, the safe anchorage off Deal. Hertfordshire. at Otford, wherein actions not above forty shillings Oakwood Hospital is now the St Andrews residential estate. Parliament reacted with the same outrage as the last time, denouncing their insolence and gaoling them. One that took place at Staplehurst on June 9th, 1865 took on a particular significance because of one noteworthy passenger on board: Charles Dickens. In retrospect, it looks a symbolic funeral pyre. 19). The name was not altogether propitious the last Victory had gone down with all hands but it seemed appropriate in 1759, when the world fell at Britains feet. One of the biggest challenges facing the English Commonwealth under Cromwell was the mercantile strength of the Dutch Republic. The Mayor of Canterbury arrived at the marketplace on December 25th to find few traders observing the legal injunction to work normally. War was duly declared, and the 3rd Dutch War proved another calamity. Otford's four churches are the Anglican Church of St Bartholomew in the village centre, the Otford Methodist Church, the Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and the Otford Evangelical Church. the Right Hon. passed an ordinance to vest them in trustees, in order As Tsar Nicholas II was discovering in Russia, however, liberality may serve as an incentive to revolt. Redemption came two weeks later from an unexpected quarter. On the opposite or southern Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. In June 1450 Henry sent soldiers led by Sir Humphry Stafford to put down the revolt. Seasiders prepared by heaping sandbags against doors, but had to leave windows open so they would not be smashed by the 18-foot surge. The battle was a victory for the English, who nevertheless lost a large number of men. By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. The liner Princess Irene had been requisitioned at her launch the previous October as a minelayer. In 1994, however, fashionable theory collided with financial expediency to bring about its closure under the auspices of Care in the Community. it would have been but little known had it not been As the Ramsgate train had gone through two warning signals, the driver was charged with unlawful killing, but acquitted at a second trial. chaplain, and his successors, celebrating divine offices On June 2nd, 1910, conditions were perfect, and he completed the flight in 95 minutes. 18) to Humphrey The King got his wife Isabella to detour to Leeds and demand to be accommodated. LITTLE PARK, part of those possessions likewise To begin with, the tests they conducted were within the house. The last and best remembered sea-battle off Sandwich occurred in 1460 during the Wars of the Roses. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. 115 men and boys were killed; seven could not be found, having been vaporised. Meanwhile, the tender and a carriage of the Ramsgate train concertinaed into a railway bridge, which collapsed on top. 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. daughter of lord St. John, obt 1625; arms, a pheon; memorials The first Navigation Act in 1651 aimed to hamper Dutch shipping, and inevitably stoked tensions. name, conveyed it by sale to king Henry VIII. As if accidental explosions at sea werent enough, WW1 also saw the worst-ever accident in the British explosives industry. The first manned trial was planned for February 21st, 1916. Becket, a Norman noble, had earned King Henry IIs opprobrium by repeatedly disrespecting his will. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. Ten years later, he ordered the Domesday Survey, just so thered be no doubt about who really owned England. At twilight on September 3rd, 1878, on the Thames north-east of Woolwich, there occurred one of those accidents that warrant the description horrific. Their leader, Joss Snelling from Broadstairs, favoured Botany Bay at Kingsgate as a landing place, it being suitably secluded but also offering caves and tunnels handy for handling quantities of contraband without detection. Usborne, unable to gain control, crashed into Strood station goods yard. The Navy put on a brave face, awarding eight Victoria Crosses. in the chapel of Apuldrefelde, for the good state of the and one villein, with 18 borderers, having 45 carucates; It was however more complex than it at first appeared. four sons and one daughter; he left surviving Charles and Elizabeth; arms at top, Polhill with impalements; several memorials The mens courage is commemorated by the distinctive Surf Lifeboat Memorial on Marine Terrace. The source of the uncertainty is the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery, 1 miles offshore. In 1255, the Sheriff of Kent got an order from King Henry III that must have given him a mammoth headache. All either confessed to having had the devil appear to them in the form of a cat or, would you believe, a hedgehog. with two hundred pounds. Mr. James Martyr, who pulled the whole of it down, of Otford, he died 1719, Cranmer, in the 29th year of king Henry VIII. The compact was signed in secret at Dover. As at Gravesend 25 years earlier, conditions were perfect for a blaze, most buildings being close together, wooden, and coated with asphalt. He decided on a siege. of his son Charles Polhill, esq. of Shoreham, by whom he had In July 1967, the crew of Folkestone Salvage attempted to retrieve the munitions on board. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the three wives, first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trevor, esq. An attempt to break it up caused the whole lot to go off. Towards Sevenoke the soil becomes Christiana Edmunds was born in Margate in 1828, the daughter of the architect of the local lighthouse. He was the Duke of Gloucester, uncle and protector of the boy King Henry VI. Mysteriously, after the, The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. 's reign, obt. residence of the Petty's; several of whom lie buried in King William Is invasion in 1066 was a historic slice of opportunism consolidated by unparalleled brutality. His reasoning was that all Indians must enjoy the same standard of justice as Britons, failing which their affection and allegiance could not be expected. This Coast Blockade continued till 1831, when a fully-fledged Coast Guard service was introduced. In the C14, the Oxford priest John Wycliffe earned the opprobrium of the Roman Catholic Church by railing against many of the Churchs mainstream beliefs and practices, including the extravagant lifestyle of clergymen. Canterbury, and consequently in that deanry. (fn. The Kentish airfields Biggin Hill, Detling, Eastchurch, Gravesend, Hawkinge, Lympne, Manston, West Malling took a fearful pounding, but somehow remained operational. One, the lugger Victory, went down with all hands; the others finally gave up. The fire was blamed on cinders drifting across from blazing cottages nearby. 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