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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the wading place, or ford, across the water called the Wantsume, at, or at least near where the bridge at Sarre now … The alteration made in this place by the failing of the Wantsume, and consequently the decrease of the inhabitants, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… the opposite port of Sandwich, and the change in the river Wantsume, with some other casual misfortunes, occasioned the … encompassed all round by the sea and the stuary called the Wantsume; and that the mouth of the Richborough port was, … place of Stonar and Ebbsfleete, northward of it, where the Wantsume ran into the sea, till by the sands this channel was …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… formerly emptied itself just below this place into the Wantsume, a river at that time of no inconsiderable width, …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… to decrease it, acquired from thence the name of the river Wantsume, in Latin, Vaxtsumus, by which name Venerable Bede … Even so late as the latter end of the 15th century, the Wantsume continued navigable, not only for lesser boats, but … so that about king Henry VII.'s time, that part of the Wantsume, which ran by Sarre towards the Genlade, or north …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… Stour, or as it was at this place antiently called, the Wantsume, continued to decay so fast, as to leave on each …