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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Saxon, in which language it signifies the resting-place or end of a journey, or the laying down of a burthen; for it … from Northgate to Palace-street; on the south, by the end of Palace-street, and a part of King's street; on the …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… same liberties from the corss of Shettynge, as far as the gate of a certain pasture called Poldreslese, and so they … the libertie and franchise of the citie begynnith at the end of the bridge of Westgate, to the breedth or wideness of … including the breadth of the river, for upwards of half a mile below the said island, to the corner called Chantry …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… city to it was antiently by a bridge, and beyond that a gate, built at the entrance of the castle-yard, 4 and on the … 7 It was removed from hence, probably about the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, before which the assizes for … been obtained merely in the same manner. But on the north end there appears, at a considerable height, a large old …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… of two isles and two chancels, having a turret at the west end of the south side, new built in 1769, 4 in which is a … two chancels, having a square tower steeple at the west end of the north isle, in which are three bells. 14 Thomas … is situated on the north side of the High-street, near the gate of the same name; it is a large handsome structure, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… suburbs without Northgate, and the suburbs without Riding-gate, Burgate, Newingate, Quiningate, Worgate, and Westgate, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… by both these names, lies near the scite of old Riding-gate, adjoining but within the walls of the city, at the … having been burnt in a large hollow or pit at the south end of it in queen Mary's reign, on account of their …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… attempts made afterwards, one of which was at the latter end of king James I.'s reign, by Mr. John Gason, who …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… road at another entrance into the city, at St. George's-gate from Dover, being narrow, with several dangerous turns, … a new one, in a strait line from that gate for more than a mile and a half through Barton-field; on each side of which … repair and improve the high road from hence to the further end of Barham Downs, where the Dover turnpike ends. To this …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the hill, stretching out by Upstreet as far as by the west end of Sarre wall, there were found in his time, as was … it. Upon the digging of a cellar on the west side of the gate going into Christ church, near the market-place, about … feet deep, with a kirb to it; a little within St. George's gate, in digging a cellar for a new house, the workmen came …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… be seen in the wall on the south side near to where Riding-gate stood; at the remains of the gate now pulled down called … chamber. The total measure of the wall, as cast up at the end of it, being 569 perches, and the 4th part of one. 6 But … Westgate contains one perch. Then from Westgate to the end of the wall, which is called Long Wall, containing lix …