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Aylesford is a village and civil parish on the River Medway in Kent, 4 miles NW of Maidstone in England. [1]

107 relations: Adam Kossowski, Alfred the Great, Allington Castle, Almshouse, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Arthur Evans, Aylesford railway station, Aylesford School – Sports College, Aylesford-Swarling pottery, Barming, Battle of Aylesford, Battle of the Medway, Belgae, Bishop of Rochester, Blue Bell Hill (village), Bordeaux, Borough of Maidstone, Britain's Bravest Manufacturing Company, British Iron Age, British Museum, Bronze Age, Caen stone, Carmelites, Chamber tomb, Chatham and Aylesford (UK Parliament constituency), Chatham, Kent, Civil parish, Countless stones, Cremation, Culpeper (surname), Danes (Germanic tribe), Dissolution of the Monasteries, Domesday Book, Earl of Aylesford, Eccles, Kent, Edmund Ironside, Elizabeth I of England, England, English Gothic architecture, Eucharist, Germanic peoples, Hengist and Horsa, Henry Brassey, Henry VIII of England, Higher education, Holy Land, Hoo Peninsula, Hundred (county division), Italy, K Sports F.C., ..., Kent, Kit's Coty House, Knossos, Lathe (county subdivision), Lathe of Scray, Liturgy of the Hours, Long barrow, Lowey of Tonbridge, Maidstone, Maidstone West railway station, Manorialism, Mary I of England, Medway Valley line, Mendicant, Neolithic, Newsprint, Norman conquest of England, Normans, Paddock Wood railway station, Paper recycling, Petham, Preston Hall, Aylesford, Prisoner of war, Pub, Rag-stone, Remembrance poppy, River Medway, Rochester Airport (Kent), Rochester Bridge, Rochester Castle, Rochester, Kent, Roman conquest of Britain, Sandstone, Sedley baronets, Sibling, Simon Stock, Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet, Stagecoach, Strood, Sussex, Sutton-at-Hone, The Royal British Legion, Thomas Wyatt (poet), Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Toltingtrough, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Malling, Tudor architecture, Type site, Victorian era, Vortigern, Walderslade, Ward (electoral subdivision), Welsh people, William the Conqueror, Wrotham, Wyatt's rebellion. Expand index (57 more) »

Adam Kossowski

Adam Kossowski (5 December 1905 – 31 March 1986) was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.

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Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Allington Castle

Allington Castle is a stone-built moated castle in Allington, Kent, just north of Maidstone, in England.

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Almshouse

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

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Arthur Evans

Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was an English archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age.

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Aylesford railway station

Aylesford railway station is on the Medway Valley Line in Kent, England, serving the village of Aylesford.

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Aylesford School – Sports College

Aylesford School – Sports College (locally known as Aylesford School and Teapot Lane) is a secondary school in Kent, England.

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Aylesford-Swarling pottery

Aylesford-Swarling pottery is part of a tradition of wheel-thrown pottery distributed around Kent, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and named after two cemeteries in Kent dating to the 1st century BC.

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Barming

Maidstone Barming is a civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England.

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Battle of Aylesford

The Battle of Aylesford or Epsford (Æȝelesford) was a battle between Britons and Anglo-Saxons recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Historia Brittonum.

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Battle of the Medway

The Battle of the Medway took place in 43 AD, probably on the River Medway in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci, now the English county of Kent.

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Belgae

The Belgae were a large Gallic-Germanic confederation of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel, the west bank of the Rhine, and northern bank of the river Seine, from at least the third century BC.

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Bishop of Rochester

The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.

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Blue Bell Hill (village)

Blue Bell Hill is a village in the Aylesford parish of the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England.

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Bordeaux

Bordeaux (Gascon Occitan: Bordèu) is a port city on the Garonne in the Gironde department in Southwestern France.

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Borough of Maidstone

The Borough of Maidstone is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England.

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Britain's Bravest Manufacturing Company

Britain's Bravest Manufacturing Company (BBMC) is a social enterprise company based in England, which employs Armed Forces veterans and people with disabilities.

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British Iron Age

The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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British Museum

The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a historical period characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

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Caen stone

Caen stone (Pierre de Caen), is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in north-western France near the city of Caen.

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Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or Carmelites (sometimes simply Carmel by synecdoche; Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo) is a Roman Catholic religious order founded, probably in the 12th century, on Mount Carmel in the Crusader States, hence the name Carmelites.

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Chamber tomb

A chamber tomb is a tomb for burial used in many different cultures.

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Chatham and Aylesford (UK Parliament constituency)

Chatham and Aylesford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Tracey Crouch, a Conservative.

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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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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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Countless stones

The countless stones is a motif that appears in English and Welsh folklore.

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Cremation

Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.

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Culpeper (surname)

Culpeper, Colepeper, or Culpepper is a surname.

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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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Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland, appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.

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Earl of Aylesford

Earl of Aylesford, in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Eccles, Kent

Eccles is a village in the English county of Kent, part of the parish of Aylesford and in the valley of the River Medway.

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Edmund Ironside

Edmund Ironside (c.990 – 30 November 1016), also known as Edmund II, was King of England from 23 April to 30 November 1016.

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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 Gothic architecture

English Gothic is an architectural style originating in France, before then flourishing in England from about 1180 until about 1520.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.

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Germanic peoples

The Germanic peoples (also called Teutonic, Suebian, or Gothic in older literature) are an Indo-European ethno-linguistic group of Northern European origin.

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Hengist and Horsa

Hengist and Horsa are legendary brothers said to have led the Angles, Saxons and Jutes in their invasion of Britain in the 5th century.

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Henry Brassey

Henry Arthur Brassey DL (14 July 1840 – 13 May 1891) was a British Member of Parliament.

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Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Holy Land

The Holy Land (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקּוֹדֶשׁ, Terra Sancta; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة) is an area roughly located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea that also includes the Eastern Bank of the Jordan River.

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Hoo Peninsula

The Hoo Peninsula is a peninsula in Kent, England (United Kingdom) separating the estuaries of the rivers Thames and Medway.

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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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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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K Sports F.C.

K Sports Football Club is a football club based in Aylesford, Kent, England.

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Kent

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

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Kit's Coty House

Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow located near to the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent.

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Knossos

Knossos (also Cnossos, both pronounced; Κνωσός, Knōsós) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and has been called Europe's oldest city.

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Lathe (county subdivision)

A lathe (Old English lǽð, Latin lestus) formed an administrative country subdivision of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell out of use in the early twentieth century.

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Lathe of Scray

The Lathe of Scray is an historic division of the county of Kent, England, encompassing the present day Districts of Swale, Ashford, and the eastern part of Tunbridge Wells The Lathes of Kent were ancient administration divisions originating, probably, in the 6th century, during the Jutish colonisation of the county.

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Liturgy of the Hours

The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum) or Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum) or Work of God (Latin: Opus Dei) or canonical hours, often referred to as the Breviary, is the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer".

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Long barrow

A long barrow is a rectangular or trapezoidal tumulus; that is, a prehistoric mound of earth and stones built over a grave or group of graves.

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Lowey of Tonbridge

The Lowey of Tonbridge is the name of a large tract of land given to Richard Fitz Gilbert (1024–1090) in West Kent, England by William the Conqueror after the Norman conquest of England.

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Maidstone

Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.

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Maidstone West railway station

Maidstone West railway station is one of three railway stations which serve the town of Maidstone, the county town of Kent, England.

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Manorialism

Manorialism was an essential element of feudal society.

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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558) was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.

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Medway Valley line

The Medway Valley line is the name given to the railway line linking and the Medway Towns with and onward to, and London St Pancras International (peak only).

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Mendicant

A mendicant (from mendicans, "begging") is one who practices mendicancy (begging) and relies chiefly or exclusively on charitable donations to survive.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Newsprint

Newsprint is a low-cost non-archival paper consisting mainly of wood pulp and most commonly used to print newspapers and other publications and advertising material.

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Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England (in Britain, often called the Norman Conquest or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, Flemish and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Paddock Wood railway station

Paddock Wood railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line and Medway Valley Line in south-east England, serving the town of Paddock Wood, Kent.

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Paper recycling

There are three categories of paper that can be used as feedstocks for making recycled paper: mill broke, pre-consumer waste, and post-consumer waste.

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Petham

Petham is a rural village and civil parish in the North Downs, five miles south of Canterbury in Kent, South East England.

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Preston Hall, Aylesford

Preston Hall is a former manorial home and associated estate in Aylesford in the English county of Kent.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Rag-stone

Rag-stone is a name given by some architectural writers to work done with stones that are quarried in thin pieces, such as Horsham Stone, sandstone, Yorkshire stone, and the slate stones, but this is more properly flag or slab work.

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Remembrance poppy

The remembrance poppy is an artificial flower that has been used since 1921 to commemorate military personnel who have died in war, and represents a common or field poppy, Papaver rhoeas.

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River Medway

The River Medway is a river in South East England.

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Rochester Airport (Kent)

Rochester Airport is an operational general aviation aerodrome located south of Rochester, Medway, South East England, with the River Medway from the end of runway 34, from Chatham and its Historic Dockyard and the Medway area.

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Rochester Bridge

Rochester Bridge in Rochester, Medway was for centuries the lowest fixed crossing of the River Medway in South East England.

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Rochester Castle

Rochester Castle stands on the east bank of the River Medway in Rochester, Kent, South East England.

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Rochester, Kent

Rochester is a town and was a historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England.

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Roman conquest of Britain

The Roman conquest of Britain was a gradual process, beginning effectively in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, whose general Aulus Plautius served as first governor of Roman Britain (Britannia).

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) mineral particles or rock fragments.

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Sedley baronets

There have been three baronetcies created for members of the Sedley (otherwise Sidley) family of Kent, all in the Baronetage of England.

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Sibling

A sibling is one of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common.

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Simon Stock

Saint Simon Stock, an Englishman who lived in the 13th century, was an early prior general of the Carmelite religious order.

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Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet

Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet FRS (1627 – 18 October 1699) was an English merchant and MP, who rose from relatively humble beginnings to be one of the wealthiest merchants in London and owner of several properties.

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Stagecoach

A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses.

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Strood

Strood is a town in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, South East 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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Sutton-at-Hone

Sutton-at-Hone is a village in the borough of Dartford in Kent, England.

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The Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion (RBL), sometimes called The British Legion or The Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants.

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Thomas Wyatt (poet)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 11 October 1542) was a 16th-century English politician, ambassador, and lyric poet credited with introducing the sonnet to English literature.

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Thomas Wyatt the Younger

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521 – 11 April 1554) was an English politician and rebel leader during the reign of Queen Mary I; his rising is traditionally called "Wyatt's rebellion".

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Toltingtrough

Toltingtrough (or Toltingtrow) was a hundred in the Lathe of Aylesford in the county of Kent, England.

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Tonbridge

Tonbridge is a historic market town in the English county of Kent.

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Tonbridge and Malling

Tonbridge and Malling is an English local government district with borough status in Kent, England.

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Tudor architecture

The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England.

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Type site

In archaeology a type site (also known as a type-site or typesite) is a site that is considered the model of a particular archaeological culture.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Vortigern

Vortigern (Old Welsh Guorthigirn, Guorthegern; Gwrtheyrn; Wyrtgeorn; Old Breton Gurdiern, Gurthiern; Foirtchern; Vortigernus, Vertigernus, Uuertigernus, etc), also spelled Vortiger, Vortigan, and Vortigen, was possibly a 5th-century warlord in Britain, known perhaps as a king of the Britons, at least connoted as such in the writings of Bede.

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Walderslade

Walderslade is a large suburb in Medway to the south of Chatham split between the unitary authority of Medway and the boroughs of Maidstone and Tonbridge & Malling in South East England.

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Ward (electoral subdivision)

A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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Wrotham

Wrotham (pronounced) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, at the foot of the North Downs.

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Wyatt's rebellion

Wyatt's Rebellion was a popular uprising in England in 1554, named after Thomas Wyatt, one of its leaders.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aylesford

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