Maidstone, now Kents county town, had a school at the ecclesiastical College of All Saints as early as 1395. A girl on land and a man on a ship half a mile away were killed by debris; another civilian died of shock. pounds; what Richard de Tonbridge holds in his lowy is In retrospect, some of the IRA outrages during the Troubles defy understanding. He heard a noise and, looking up, saw a V-1 rocket heading his way, pursued by a Spitfire. At 7.53am, the charges exploded, igniting hundreds of 6- and 12-inch shells. 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. and Jane, of Otford, obt. Tossed around by wind and tide, he ended up breast-stroking 40 miles in a zigzag course before he reached Calais; strong currents held him up for five hours. 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. the palace. Theres an elephant waiting near Calais, it said, and youre to get it to the Tower of London for my menagerie. This manor, lordship, and seignory of Otford coming thus into the king's possessions, appears thenceforth Unusually, it lasted two days, suggesting that it was hard fought. September 1967 was a watershed for the Beatles. Although the Castle fell, Matildas forces eventually engaged Stephen in 1141 at Lincoln, where he was captured; but popular resistance to her accession barred her from formally becoming monarch. A crater 20 feet deep and 50 yards long was blown out of the seabed, and seismographic equipment on the west coast of America recorded an earthquake measuring 4.5. Although the building cost was an eye-watering 2 million in todays money, it was expected to solve once and for all Woolwichs chronic town-centre parking problem. Elizabeth I went further, making hanging the penalty only for a second offence, provided that murder was not involved. He had Canterbury and Rochester under his control, but the crucial port of Dover was still holding out. When the Armys conflicting requirements were hived off to the Royal Engineers at Chatham, the RFC set up its own Wireless Testing Park at the Joyce Green airfield near Dartford. whose sister Mary, about 1790; sold it to The bewildering fact is that the Kings School was founded nearly a thousand years before both Eton and Harrow. Work did once start at the Kentish end, but it was just a gesture. One went posthumously to Old Dovorian rugby international Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Harrison, who was lost while leading an attack on the mole. By the middle of the C9, the threat from the East presented by red-bearded men in longboats was serious, and incessant. made of an hospital, or house of leprous persons here. The Kent Area aggressively picketed mines around the country that were returning to work, including Arthur Scargills own Barrow Colliery. Flamboyant fighter ace Leutnant Franz von Werra claimed during the Battle of Britain to have shot down a Spitfire near Rochester and destroyed eight Hurricanes, all on one day; not that the RAF knew of it. Marconis invention of wireless telegraphy was initially greeted with ridicule. By January, the royal Lancastrian fleet under the command of Maidstone-born Earl Rivers was at anchor off Sandwich. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rule are referred to together as the North Sea Empire. 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. He took a sympathetic approach to Indian nationalist concerns, for which reason he was relatively popular. He had in mind a full-scale invasion. It signalled an end to the phoney peace, and the start of further hostilities that, by the summer, would turn to mortal conflict. The accident prompted the introduction of the Truculent light on submarines to improve visibility. By 1922, the country was settling down again after WW1. A fair is held here on the 24th of Uniquely among counties away from the Welsh and Scottish borders, Kent was granted the status of semi-autonomous County Palatine, so retaining some of its own laws. 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. A story went round afterwards concerning anatomy students at the University of Leiden. 6). The boys motive became a national talking-point. of twenty pounds per annum. when the possession of it again returned to He overreached himself, however, and was killed at Smithfield. thelred dies Edmund Ironside chosen as king by London, and besieged there Cnut chosen as king by the rest of England at Southampton (?) The flashpoint was the imprisonment of Robert Belling, an escaped serf from Gravesend. The debacle nevertheless remains a landmark in the revolutionary mythos. The Black Death of 1348 killed half the population of England. After they had lodged for three days at Rochester, the lad led him astray, hit him over the head, cut his throat, robbed him, and disappeared. John Jeffries and Jean-Pierre Blanchard, an American and a Frenchman, came to Dover Castle to attempt a crossing of the English Channel by hydrogen balloon. There were 49 fatalities, and 78 were injured. Edmund 'Ironside' recreation of 2nd Battle of Otford (1016) fame. which makes it far from being pleasant, and gives it a OTFORD PARISH is about nine miles in circumference, and contains about two thousand four hundred Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. Perversely, James I reversed the trend in 1604 by making even injury by witchcraft a capital offence. It was more like Prohibition Era gangsterism: as costly to society as it was to the Treasury. The next morning, Tromp attacked with fire-ships as the enemy tried to break out. Wall, vicar of Shoreham, whose only daughter and (fn. The event that brought him fame (or infamy) occurred when he conducted a robbery at Gads Hill, Rochester. 22). The Battle of Otford was a battle fought in 776 between the Mercians, led by Offa of Mercia, and the Jutes of Kent.The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent.. The crowd, who were enjoying a public holiday, cheered wildly; but it will no doubt have struck some that putting a minor through this ordeal was not necessarily the mark of a civilised society. By the time Hardinge completed his tour of duty in 1916, his young wife had died back in Penshurst two years earlier. Things were set to change in 1830, however, with Maidstone Prison being built; it was to be used as a new town-centre venue for this salutary public entertainment. Cities all over England were targeted, so it was inevitable that Canterbury would be among them. It was late owing to a pea-souper, and at 6.20 pm was waiting at a red light near St Johns, only five miles out. There was no desire for regime change; but the nation spiralled downwards as the impasse continued. and queen Elizabeth, afterwards made several grants of Although it won its signatories the Nobel Peace Prize, the pact was fiercely resented in the Arab world, and before long cost the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat his life. Oakwood Hospital fire: Barming Asylum now Oakwood Hospital. the crown, where it continues at this time. means to gain the possession of it; but, at the command of the archbishop in 830, he by his last will, restored this place, then estimated at ten hides, again to That same year, a storm further east caused the death of 50,000 in Holland. The Battle of Ashingdon is also known as the Battle of Assundun, the Battle of Assingdon, the Battle of Assandun and the Battle of Assendun. The following year, however, he won an important victory over his main rival, Wessex, and was again able to turn the screw on Kent. possessed by the Cobhams of Sterborough, which he It is fitting that, 17 years after one corner of Kent saw the worlds first shore-to-ship communication, another hosted the first ground-to-air message. An engine caught fire, and then the whole wing. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the Then, abruptly, it was no more. Around 10.30 in the evening, a steamer ran into her. them; adjoining to which they had two large parks, Of this manor three Thaines (fn. The winds are reckoned to have been equivalent to a Category 2 hurricane. death of king Charles I. in 1648. She had a comfortable upbringing, though mental illness on both sides of her family perhaps accounted for her diagnosis of hysteria around 1850. Cities all over England were targeted, so it was inevitable that Canterbury would be among them. Edmund retakes Wessex It turned into a rout. He showed eight clips, one of which was Rough Sea at Dover. Simultaneously, his wife and child were abducted from their Herne Bay home. Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. A mass grave was dug at the site for 73 corpses. The effects in Canterbury were considerable, including the partial collapse of St Augustines Abbey and the Cathedral. Mr. James Martyr, who pulled the whole of it down, 1). He himself was born in Dublin, and went to Eton and Oxford. It is astonishing to think that the worlds largest democracy traces its origins to a civil servant born in St Mary Cray. In its crudest version, the invaders were chased out of Kent by a mob bearing staves. King Edward VI. She was launched in 1765, featured prominently in the Battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, and won fame as Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar. Some diehards held out in Essex, but it was curtains for King Charles: he was beheaded in January. The county had little practice in shifting pachyderms around, its only previous experience being one that arrived at Sandwich with the Romans in AD 43. It was first given serious consideration in 1802, when French engineer Albert Mathieu proposed a tunnel lit with oil lamps, ferrying travellers by horse-drawn carriage. After considerable wrangling, they concluded a dramatic agreement. parish officers, to be paid out of land vested in Mr. Polhill, and In 1015 Edmund married Sigeferth's widow against the king's wishes, and took possession of the estates of Sigeferth and Morcar in the east midlands. In return he agreed, unbelievably, to convert to Catholicism, and join the French in waging war on Britains allies, the Dutch. Needless to say, Queen Mary took a very prejudicial point of view. Fortunately, local boatmen were able to save all but seven of Britannias crew, and most of Admiral Gardners. With efforts to use balloons for military reconnaissance proving ineffectual in the US Civil War, the British Army decided in 1862 to commence its own project to develop viable military balloons. The sun and moon were pulling gravitationally in the same direction, and the consequent spring tide was exacerbated by a storm on the North Sea. had thus come into the king's possessions, he kept the three wives, first Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Trevor, esq. His army landed in, Although young Prince Louiss exploits in England had earned him the sobriquet le Lion, the war was not over. Although all the South-East was affected, it was Kent that took the brunt of it, and RAF heroism in Kentish skies that blunted Germanys remorseless progress. His unique feat became the subject of a 1957 movie, based on a book co-written by Erith-born James Leasor. This time, Louis gave up for good. Now the demesne of within these parks of Otford. St Barts was expanded and modernised in the C19; but the NHS had no need for it, and it closed in 2016 amid plans for redevelopment as housing. Being unreliable, however, she was eventually converted to a man-of-war. Although it was magnificent, Blriots cross-Channel flight in 1909 was a blow to British national pride, since it handed leadership in world aviation to the French. among the Saxons themselves, contending for glory rated at 10 pounds. the term of thirty years, which lease was renewed The result was that wages rose dramatically, and the mobility of labour was transformed. Truculent was cut apart by the impact and sank like a stone. A few days later, about 50 prisoners went on the rampage, releasing all the other thousand convicts and causing serious damage. 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. Early on January 5th, 1857, while heading for London from New York with a cargo of wheat and flour, she anchored off Kingsgate Bay in a storm. One warship, the Antelope, had its anchor cables severed by a merchant ship, the Dolphin, and was blown onto the Goodwin Sands. They realised they needed to suspend the thread with silk to avoid contact with the ground, and so discovered the principle of insulation. the last of that name, began to rebuild this house, intending to reside in it, but he again pulled it down before it was quite finished. Otford. Ignoring his fathers and the Popes warnings, Louis sent a vanguard of knights to London, and then an invasion fleet. All were hanged at once at Penenden Heath, a record. land, and though the rivulets and springs throughout it Once in, the Vikings did all they were notorious for, including stripping the city bare, setting fire to the cathedral, and taking eminent hostages, one of them being Archbishop Aelfheah himself. Although young Prince Louiss exploits in England had earned him the sobriquet le Lion, the war was not over. 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. Because targets were selected for having three stars in the Baedeker guide-book, the campaign was called the Baedeker Blitz. of year of queen Elizabeth, in whose descendants this The raids ultimately proved merely a distraction from Hitlers war on Russia, and brought Germany retaliation on a horrendous scale. It was not the first ever maritime footage: one of the Lumires ten clips, La Mer, was a film of Frenchmen jumping off a jetty. She sank in shallow waters, her masts remaining forever visible. The returning bombers were engaged off Belgium by nine Sopwith pups of the Royal Naval Air Service, who managed to shoot down just one. She set off for London at 3.30am on Friday, March 29th. The losses from the storm were largely material. Bosville, esq. The record does not say who won, but the fact that King Egbert issued his own charters afterwards suggests a temporary reverse for the master. known by the name of the Lesser or Little Park. Disappearance of Lord Lucan: Old Bunyard, 2021. A violent hailstorm hit the area south-east of London, Tunbridge Wells being particularly badly hit. No sooner had the Montgolfier Brothers made history with their first-ever manned flight than two more adventurers felt the need to upstage them. year of king James I. bearing then the title of lord Her life ended tragically. So, when the Government ordered a new first-rater in 1758, it was a big deal. This was a smart move, because Badlesmeres wife Margaret was known to detest her. Around 5,000 Britons were killed, and 850 Romans. (fn. with whom it remained till the restoration of king This First Dutch War started well, when the Dutch fled the Battle of the Kentish Knock in September. Usborne, unable to gain control, crashed into Strood station goods yard. The signing of Magna Carta in June 1215 is usually presented as the end of a conflict. A Yorkshireman, he served in the Army before taking up a favourite occupation of ex-soldiers, highway robbery. The Gazette took over several Kent County Newspapers titles. Six years after being sacked for his outspokenness in 1879, he single-handedly founded the Indian National Congress. In truth, it was the start of a worse one. Six days later, while Latham was preparing his next attempt, Louis Blriot leapfrogged him. For Kent, it was fine achievement for a county that would go on to be a mainstay of naval enterprise. The blame was placed on slack man-management by warders who, having worked only on prison hulks, were unused to conventional prison methods. On the night of November 30th, a small fire was detected. After which the It was not quite the worst such calamity in Britain: in 1997, 160 vehicles were caught up in a fatal pile-up on the M42. 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 Also in Sussex, Winchelsea was obliterated, and had to be rebuilt on the top of a cliff, while Hastings lost its harbour when a cliff collapsed. This demanded an armed landing by 1,700 marines to neutralise German defences. The first grammar school in Kent, it set a precedent for the likes of Dartford Grammar School (1576), Norton Knatchbull School (1630), and the Harvey Grammar School (1674), making Kent a grammar-school hotbed. (fn. English archers used the wind to wreak havoc, whilst lime was released into French eyes. With the first Civil War over and King Charles safely in custody, the Puritan-dominated Parliament was free to throw its ideological weight around. He adopted an orphan he came across at a church, naming him Cockermay Doucri or Foundling David, and taught him his trade. they continued down to Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe, great and munificent, gave Otteford to the church of For the town of this name in Australia, see Otford, New South Wales. The battle was fought as part of a campaign by Cnut to conquer England. After further close shaves, including a pardon that spared him transportation, he was arrested on a charge of murdering a constable. On May 21, El & Humph were the C15 supercouple. 173 passengers and crew were rescued, though the ship was plundered by vultures sailing from Ramsgate, who even stole from the dead. The next day, they slipped away to Southampton en route to Russia, where they spent the rest of their lives. The source was identified as the spring at Farleigh supplying parts of Maidstone with water, which had probably been polluted by hop-pickers down from London. the wall, ornamented with Gothic carved work, but the inscription is lost. 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. It spiralled down with pieces flying off, and crashed into a bungalow. Although the task of communicating with pilots in the air had seemed nigh on impossible, by April 1915 Major Prince was ready to attempt a conversation with Captain JM Furnival. When Henry VII sought to raise funding for Englands defences against threatened invasions by both the Scots and the pretender Perkin Warbeck, a 15,000-strong peasant army was raised in Cornwall, and marched on London. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. The cause was never definitively established. Edmund joins forces with the Northumbrian Uhtred Edmund and Cnut ravage Cnut's army closes on York, and Uhtred and the Northumbrians submit to Cnut April 23, 1016. 12) His next successor, archbishop Cranmer, observing that this stately But insults were not enough. If the Royal Navy could suffer such disasters when the Germans werent even in sight, it looked like being a difficult war. The Castle was at length returned to the de Crvecoeurs, who managed to retain it for another hundred years before the Crown pinched it for good. Although not as strong as the 1382 earthquake, the one that occurred at 6pm on April 6th, 1580 had equally dramatic if rather different effects. She was returning from a pleasure trip to Sheerness when she turned straight across the path of the collier Bywell Castle. 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. Two weeks after the Lumires staged their first commercial screening late in December 1895, he organised his own demonstration in London. Diggle calmly transferred to HMS Myngs, and at 8.15pm sent another torpedo through the hole. It was Jack Cade who organised a distinctively Kentish uprising. curing barrenness in women, which caused great resort of people to his image and shrine in this church; About 6,000 ghouls came to gawk, their behaviour later being excoriated by the coroner. Consequently, a wooden jetty was erected in 1824; but it was wrecked by a storm in 1851. Eight months after the collision, she was stopped off Dover and confiscated. Deal Castle shook so violently that it seemed in danger of collapse. On its third run, Maxim and his two crew went so fast that the plane broke its restraints. the little park, and other premises here, late belonging to the see of Canterbury, at the yearly rent of The bill was passed. esq. After leaving politics, he discovered God. he invaded it, and fought a famous battle with Aldric, After Usborne and Squadron Commander De Courcy Ireland had ascended to 4,000 feet, intending to launch the plane, the airship unaccountably flexed, causing the aircraft to become partially detached. It became a symbol of Victorian greatness as iconic as Frances Eiffel Tower. The King mounted a major siege that the Contrariants opted not to interfere with. He permitted a formal inquiry by many of the top nobles in England, even including some Saxons. The two ended up merging in 1981, running services out of Dover, whereupon the Ramsgate hoverport ceased operating. A big issue facing Christianity from the start was predestination. In the later 8th cent., Kent was struggling to retain its independence against the growing power of Mercia. 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. Mr. Polhill has a field in this parish, called Dane He woke at sunrise to find his younger son Freeman at his bedside. Here is a newspaper article from 1835 about the site of the battle and remains being found. Wheler reported the ground-breaking results to the Royal Society, which awarded Gray its first Copley Medal. King Ethelraed IIs hapless efforts to repel Cnuts invasion came to a halt in April 1016, when he died in London. 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