A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CINQUE PORTS (The), a maritime district in Kent and Sussex, constituted by Edward the Confessor, and fully organized by William the Conqueror, to defend England from invasion, and to supply a navy. The head ports were Dover, Sandwich, and Romney, mentioned at Domesday, Hythe and Hastings, added soon afterwards, and Rye and Winchelsea, added by Henry III.; and each had under it towns and places more or less distant, some of them so far off as from 19 to 40 miles. They had an independent government, peculiar privileges, and special courts; but they lost much of their character at the formation of a royal navy after the Restoration, and underwent sweeping modification by the recent reform acts. The supreme jurisdiction is vested in a lord warden, who is constable of Dover castle.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a maritime district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Kent AncC Sussex AncC |
| Place names: | CINQUE PORTS | CINQUE PORTS THE | THE CINQUE PORTS |
| Place: | Cinque Ports |
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