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111 relations: Anglo-Saxons, Baron, Baronage, Bekesbourne, Bexhill-on-Sea, Birchington-on-Sea, Borough, Brightlingsea, Bristol, Bulverhythe, Burgess (title), Channel Ports, Chatham, Kent, Chichester, Cinque Ports, Cinque ports parliament constituencies, Collective title, Corporation (feudal Europe), Danes (Germanic tribe), Deal, Kent, Deptford, Dimidiation, Dover, Eastbourne, Edward I of England, Edward II of England, Elizabeth I of England, England, English Channel, English feudal barony, Essex, Estuary, Faversham, Feudalism, Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict, Folkestone, Fordwich, France, Gillingham, Kent, Gravesend, Greenwich, Hastings, Heraldry, HMS Illustrious (R06), HMS Kent (F78), House of Plantagenet, Hugh Despenser the Younger, Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester, Hythe, Kent, Infangthief and outfangthief, ..., Isle of Wight, Kent, Kingsdown, Kent, Knights of the Shire, Liverpool, London, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lords Temporal, Lottery, Lydd, Margate, Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, Monopoly, New Romney, Norman language, Parliament of England, Pentapolis, Pevensey, Pillory, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Reculver, Reform Act 1832, Richborough, Ringwould, River Rother, East Sussex, River Thames, Romney Marsh, Royal Navy, Rye, East Sussex, Sandwich, Kent, Sarre, Kent, Seaford, East Sussex, Seal (emblem), Sheriff, Shire, Short Titles Act 1896, Silt, Smuggling, Soke (legal), South England flood of February 1287, Southampton, St Peter's, Kent, Stonor, Sussex, Tallage, Tenterden, The Crown, The History of Parliament, Toll and team, Tumbrel, United Kingdom, Walmer, Walmer Castle, Wars of the Roses, West Hythe, Winchelsea, Woodchurch, Woolwich, Wrecking (shipwreck). Expand index (61 more) »
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.
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Baron
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary.
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Baronage
The baronage is the collectively inclusive term denoting all members of the feudal nobility, as observed by the constitutional authority Edward Coke.
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Bekesbourne
Bekesbourne is a village near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.
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Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea (often simply Bexhill) is a seaside town situated in the county of East Sussex in South East England.
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Birchington-on-Sea
Birchington-on-Sea is a village in northeast Kent, England, with a population of around 10,000.
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.
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Brightlingsea
Brightlingsea is a coastal town and an electoral ward in the Tendring district of Essex, England.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bulverhythe
Bulverhythe, also known as West St Leonards, Bo Peep, Filsham, West Marina, or Harley Shute, is a suburb of Hastings, East Sussex, England with its Esplanade and 15 ft thick sea wall.
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Burgess (title)
Burgess originally meant a freeman of a borough (England, Wales, Ireland) or burgh (Scotland).
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Channel Ports
The Channel Ports are seaports in southern England and the facing continent, which allow for short crossings of the English Channel.
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Chatham, Kent
Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.
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Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, in South-East England.
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Cinque Ports
The Confederation of Cinque Ports is a historic series of coastal towns in Kent and Sussex.
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Cinque ports parliament constituencies
Until the Reform Act 1832, there were eight constituencies in the Parliament of England and its successors related to the cinque ports.
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Collective title
A collective title is an expression by which two or more pieces of legislation may, under the law of the United Kingdom, be cited together.
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Corporation (feudal Europe)
In feudal Europe, a corporation (from the Latin corpus, corporis a body) was an aggregation of business interests into a single legal body, entity or compact, usually with an explicit license from city, church, or national leaders.
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Danes (Germanic tribe)
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.
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Deal, Kent
Deal is a town in Kent, England, which lies on the border of the North Sea and the English Channel, eight miles north-east of Dover and eight miles south of Ramsgate.
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Deptford
Deptford is a district of south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Lewisham.
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Dimidiation
In heraldry, dimidiation is a method of marshalling (heraldically combining) two coats of arms.
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Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England.
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Eastbourne
Eastbourne is a town, seaside resort and borough in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of Brighton.
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Edward I of England
Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307.
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Edward II of England
Edward II (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), also called Edward of Carnarvon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327.
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Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
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English feudal barony
In the kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was the highest degree of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony") under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons.
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Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Faversham
Faversham is a market town and civil parish in the Swale district of Kent, England.
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Feudalism
Feudalism was a combination of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries.
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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict
In maritime law, flotsam, jetsam, lagan, and derelict are specific kinds of shipwreck.
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Folkestone
Folkestone is a port town on the English Channel, in Kent, south-east England.
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Fordwich
Fordwich is a very small town and a civil parish in east Kent, England, on the River Stour, northeast of Canterbury.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gillingham, Kent
Gillingham is a town in the county of Kent in South East England.
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Gravesend
Gravesend is an ancient town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south bank of the Thames Estuary and opposite Tilbury in Essex.
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Greenwich
Greenwich is an area of south east London, England, located east-southeast of Charing Cross.
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Hastings
Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England, east of the county town of Lewes and south east of London.
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Heraldry
Heraldry is a broad term, encompassing the design, display, and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank, and pedigree.
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HMS Illustrious (R06)
HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three ships constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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HMS Kent (F78)
HMS Kent is a Type 23 Duke class frigate of the British Royal Navy, and the twelfth ship to bear the name, although technically she is named after the dukedom rather than the county.
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House of Plantagenet
The House of Plantagenet was a royal house which originated from the lands of Anjou in France.
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Hugh Despenser the Younger
Hugh le Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (c. 1286 – 24 November 1326), also referred to as "the younger Despenser", was the son and heir of Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester (the elder Despenser) by his wife Isabella de Beauchamp, daughter of William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick.
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Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester
Hugh le Despenser (1 March 1261 – 27 October 1326), sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II of England.
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Hythe, Kent
Hythe is a small coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the district of Folkestone and Hythe on the south coast of Kent.
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Infangthief and outfangthief
Infangthief and outfangthief were privileges granted to feudal lords (and various corporate bodies such as abbeys and cities) under Anglo-Saxon law by the kings of England.
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Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.
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Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
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Kingsdown, Kent
Kingsdown is a village immediately to the south of Walmer, itself south of Deal, on the English Channel coast of Kent.
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Knights of the Shire
Knights of the shire (milites comitatus) was the formal title for members of parliament (MPs) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ended the practice of each county (or shire) forming a single constituency.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
The Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports is a ceremonial official in the United Kingdom.
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Lords Temporal
In the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Lords Temporal are secular members of the House of Lords.
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Lottery
A lottery is a form of gambling that involves the drawing of numbers for a prize.
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Lydd
Lydd is a town and electoral ward in Kent, England, lying on the Romney Marsh.
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Margate
Margate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in Kent, England.
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Modus Tenendi Parliamentum
The Modus Tenendi Parliamentum (Method of Holding Parliaments) is a 14th-century document that outlined an idealised version of English parliamentary procedure.
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Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.
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New Romney
New Romney is a small town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh, an area of flat, rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea after the harbour began to silt up.
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Norman language
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Parliament of England
The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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Pentapolis
A pentapolis (from Greek πεντα- penta-, "five" and πόλις polis, "city") is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.
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Pevensey
Pevensey is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England.
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Pillory
The pillory was a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse.
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Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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Ramsgate
Ramsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England.
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Reculver
Reculver is a village and coastal resort about east of Herne Bay in south-east England, in a ward of the same name, in the City of Canterbury district of Kent.
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Reform Act 1832
The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.
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Richborough
Richborough is a settlement north of Sandwich on the east coast of the county of Kent, England.
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Ringwould
Ringwould is a village and electoral ward near Deal in Kent, England.
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River Rother, East Sussex
The River Rother flows for through the English counties of East Sussex and Kent.
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Rye, East Sussex
Rye is a small town in East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede.
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Sandwich, Kent
Sandwich is a historic town and civil parish on the River Stour in the non-metropolitan district of Dover, within the ceremonial county of Kent, south-east England.
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Sarre, Kent
Sarre is a village and civil parish in Thanet District in Kent, England.
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Seaford, East Sussex
Seaford is a coastal town in East Sussex, on the south coast of England.
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Seal (emblem)
A seal is a device for making an impression in wax, clay, paper, or some other medium, including an embossment on paper, and is also the impression thus made.
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Sheriff
A sheriff is a government official, with varying duties, existing in some countries with historical ties to England, where the office originated.
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Shire
A shire is a traditional term for a division of land, found in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and some other English speaking countries.
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Short Titles Act 1896
The Short Titles Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict c 14) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Silt
Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.
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Smuggling
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations.
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Soke (legal)
The term soke (in Old English: soc, connected ultimately with secan, "to seek"), at the time of the Norman conquest of England generally denoted "jurisdiction", but its vague usage makes it probably lack a single, precise definition.
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South England flood of February 1287
In February 1287 a storm hit the southern coast of England with such ferocity that whole areas of coastline were redrawn.
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Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
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St Peter's, Kent
St Peter's is an area of Broadstairs, a town on the Isle of Thanet in Kent.
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Stonor
Stonor is a mostly cultivated and wooded village centred north of Henley-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire, England.
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Sussex
Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.
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Tallage
Tallage or talliage (from the French tailler, i.e. a part cut out of the whole) may have signified at first any tax, but became in England and France a land use or land tenure tax.
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Tenterden
Tenterden is a town with a large conservation area in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
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The Crown
The Crown is the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their sub-divisions (such as Crown dependencies, provinces, or states).
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The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament is a project to write a complete history of the United Kingdom Parliament and its predecessors, the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of England.
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Toll and team
Toll and team (also spelled thol and theam) were related privileges granted by the Crown to landowners under Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman law.
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Tumbrel
A tumbrel (alternatively tumbril) is a two-wheeled cart or wagon typically designed to be hauled by a single horse or ox.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Walmer
Walmer is a town in the district of Dover, Kent in England: located on the coast, the parish of Walmer is six miles (10 km) north-east of Dover.
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Walmer Castle
Walmer Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Walmer, Kent, between 1539 and 1540.
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Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the House of Lancaster, associated with a red rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a white rose.
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West Hythe
West Hythe is a hamlet near Palmarsh in Kent, England, and a few miles west of the cinque port town of Hythe.
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Winchelsea
Winchelsea is a small town in the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, England, located between the High Weald and the Romney Marsh, approximately south west of Rye and north east of Hastings.
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Woodchurch
Woodchurch is an area of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula, in England.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Wrecking (shipwreck)
Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered close to shore.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinque_Ports
