Author: Charles Igglesden

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781333588601

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Excerpt from A Saunter Through Kent With Pen and Pencil The most picturesque spot in the parish is to be found in the old road that runs from the church to the Canterbury-road. Here we stroll past the church lying back on our left With its dark yew sentinels to the east and west; further along we find wooden plastered and brick dwellings, for the most part old and turned grim With time; the almshouses, once a disreputable beerhouse and afterwards a reading room given to the parish by the venerable Mr. And Mrs. Lake in 1890; houses where fantastically-trained yew bushes form an evergreen porch; and then finally at the other end of the lane are some tumble-down, ivy-clad buildings in a state of decay, while on the right, luring us under the shadow of their stately branches, are the tall trees that border the grounds of Captain Billington, from the boughs of which the piping of the blackbird and thrush and the cawing of a host of rooks can be heard in happy chorus. Kennington covers a lot of ground, for it extends along the Canterbury-road beyond the Mill, while the lane towards Willes borough, branching out at Spearpoint-corner, is in the parish, and, continuing in the direction of Ashford its boundary reaches the bridge over the little stream that trickles past Bybrook. The mill, With its miniature lake dotted with tiny wooded islands, which is always noticeable to the traveller along the Canterbury and Ashford high road, has stood in the position it now occupies as long as the oldest inhabitant can remember. The water, which forms one of the three motive powers for working the mill, comes from Eastwell Lake. The property passed many years ago from the Young family to the Eastwell Estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book A Saunter Through Kent With Pen and Pencil (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Igglesden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Saunter Through Kent With Pen and Pencil The most picturesque spot in the parish is to be found in the old road that runs from the church to the Canterbury-road. Here we stroll past the church lying back on our left With its dark yew sentinels to the east and west; further along we find wooden plastered and brick dwellings, for the most part old and turned grim With time; the almshouses, once a disreputable beerhouse and afterwards a reading room given to the parish by the venerable Mr. And Mrs. Lake in 1890; houses where fantastically-trained yew bushes form an evergreen porch; and then finally at the other end of the lane are some tumble-down, ivy-clad buildings in a state of decay, while on the right, luring us under the shadow of their stately branches, are the tall trees that border the grounds of Captain Billington, from the boughs of which the piping of the blackbird and thrush and the cawing of a host of rooks can be heard in happy chorus. Kennington covers a lot of ground, for it extends along the Canterbury-road beyond the Mill, while the lane towards Willes borough, branching out at Spearpoint-corner, is in the parish, and, continuing in the direction of Ashford its boundary reaches the bridge over the little stream that trickles past Bybrook. The mill, With its miniature lake dotted with tiny wooded islands, which is always noticeable to the traveller along the Canterbury and Ashford high road, has stood in the position it now occupies as long as the oldest inhabitant can remember. The water, which forms one of the three motive powers for working the mill, comes from Eastwell Lake. The property passed many years ago from the Young family to the Eastwell Estate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.