The Kentish Coast

Chapter 29: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A guide combines careful topographical description and antiquarian anecdote while tracing the southeastern English seaboard from London suburbs downstream to the marshes and headlands. It visits riverside and seaside towns, harbours, castles, lighthouses and military works, records shipping, fishing and ferry practices, and recounts notable maritime incidents and local customs. Natural features such as sands, estuaries, capes and reclaimed marshland are described alongside accounts of smuggling, coastal defence, collieries, and evolving transport links. Illustrations and chapter-by-chapter sketches offer historical notes, architectural details, and practical impressions intended for walkers, tourists, and readers interested in regional history and coastal life.

Transcriber’s Notes

Text on cover added by Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

Illustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations. In versions of this eBook that support hyperlinks, the page references in the List of Illustrations lead to the corresponding illustrations.

The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.