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Cobham, Kent

Index Cobham, Kent

Cobham is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England. [1]

38 relations: Almshouse, Bromley South railway station, Charles Dickens, Chatham main line, Civil parish, Cobham Hall, Cobham, Kent, Cricket, Darnley Mausoleum, Dover, Earl of Darnley, Forestry Commission, Gillingham railway station (Kent), Gravesend, Gravesham, Gravesham (UK Parliament constituency), Humphry Repton, Hundred (county division), Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley, Jeskyns, Joe Pasquale, John, King of England, Joseph Williamson (politician), Kent, Listed building, London Victoria station, Luddesdown, Monumental brass, Outsider art, Parish, Protected area, Public school (United Kingdom), Richard Dadd, Royal Navy, Sole Street railway station, The Ashes, The Pickwick Papers, Watling Street.

Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a poorhouse) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community.

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Bromley South railway station

Bromley South railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town centre and high street of Bromley, south-east London.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Chatham main line

The Chatham main line is a railway line in England that links London Victoria and Dover Priory / Ramsgate, travelling via Medway (of which the town of Chatham is part, hence the name).

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority.

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Cobham Hall

Cobham Hall is an independent day and boarding school for girls in Cobham, Kent.

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Cobham, Kent

Cobham is a village and civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Darnley Mausoleum

The Darnley Mausoleum, or Cobham Mausoleum as it is often now referred to, is a Grade I Listed building, now owned by the National Trust and situated in Cobham Woods, Kent (OS grid ref: TQ694684).

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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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Earl of Darnley

Earl of Darnley is a hereditary title that has been created three times, twice in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in England and Scotland (on 1 April 2013 Forestry Commission Wales merged with other agencies to become Natural Resources Wales).

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Gillingham railway station (Kent)

Gillingham railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the town of Gillingham, Kent.

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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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Gravesham

Gravesham is a local government district with borough status in north-west Kent, England.

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Gravesham (UK Parliament constituency)

Gravesham is a constituency in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Adam Holloway, a Conservative.

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Humphry Repton

Humphry Repton (21 April 1752 – 24 March 1818) was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the 19th century.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Ivo Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley

Ivo Francis Walter Bligh, 8th Earl of Darnley, (13 March 1859 – 10 April 1927), styled Hon.

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Jeskyns

Jeskyns is near Cobham, in Kent, England.

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Joe Pasquale

Joseph Ellis Pasquale (born 20 August 1961) is an English comedian, actor and television presenter, known for being crowned "King of the Jungle", in the fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2004.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216), also known as John Lackland (Norman French: Johan sanz Terre), was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Joseph Williamson (politician)

Sir Joseph Williamson, PRS (25 July 1633 – 3 October 1701) was an English civil servant, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1665 and 1701 and in the Irish House of Commons between 1692 and 1699.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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London Victoria station

Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.

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Luddesdown

Luddesdown is a civil parish in the Gravesham District of Kent, England.

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Monumental brass

Monumental brass is a species of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the early part of the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood.

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Outsider art

Outsider art is art by self-taught or naïve art makers.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Sole Street railway station

Sole Street railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the village of Sole Street, near Cobham, Kent.

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The Ashes

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia.

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The Pickwick Papers

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.

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Watling Street

Watling Street is a route in England and Wales that began as an ancient trackway first used by the Britons, mainly between the areas of modern Canterbury and using a natural ford near Westminster.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobham,_Kent

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