Picture of Margate and Its Vicinity

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PICTURE OF MARGATE. THE ISLE OF THANET. JL HIS beautiful island is distant from London sixty-four miles. It is, says Hasted, in his View of Kent, surrounded by the sea on the northern and eastern sides; along which the chalk cliffs extend from a little westward of Gon-end, on the south, round the eastern...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PICTURE OF MARGATE. THE ISLE OF THANET. JL HIS beautiful island is distant from London sixty-four miles. It is, says Hasted, in his View of Kent, surrounded by the sea on the northern and eastern sides; along which the chalk cliffs extend from a little westward of Gon-end, on the south, round the eastern side, to Cliff-end, about a mile and a half south-west beyond Rams- gate. It is bounded on the south by the river Stour, and on the west by the water called the Nethergong. It is, in shape, a long oval, being about nine miles long, from east to west, and about five miles broad, from north to south. It is divided into the two manors of Minster and Monkton, which are separated by a bank, or lynch, which goes quite across the island, and is commonly called St. Mildred's Lynch. It is computed to contain nearly forty-one square miles, and little less than about 27,000 acres of land, including Stonar. There are about 3,500 acres of excellent marsh land, and 23,000 acres ofarable. It contains, within its bounds, part of the parish of St. Laurence, the parishes of Minster, Monkton, and Stonar, and part of the parish of St. Nicholas, and all the churches of those parishes. Two constables have jurisdiction over this hundred. The remainder of this island is within the jurisdiction of the cinque ports, containing the corporate town of Margate, including the parish of St. John, Birchington, with Gousend; Wood, alias Wood- church, and St. Peter's, all members of, and within the jurisdiction of the port of Dover; the ville of Ramsgate, and the ville of Sarre, now esteemed in the parish of St. Nicholas, both members, and within the jurisdiction of the port of Sandwich. The derivation of the name of this island has never been distinctly traced: the Britons called it Ruim, or Ruoc...