Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... GUIDE BOOK AND HISTORY OF FAVERSHAM. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. Situation.--The Town of Faversham is a Corporate Member of the Cinque Port of Dover, and gives its name to an extensive Hundred in the Lathe of Scray, to a County Court District, and to a Registration and Union District. It is situated in the Eastern Division of the County of Kent, and within the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Diocese of Canterbury, and Deanery of Ospringe. District.--Soil.--The District consists of undulating country, with a general dip from South to North. Its higher parts on the South are mainly of chalk, the lower portions towards the Swale (a branch of the sea dividing the main land from the Isle of Sheppy, ) are on Thanet beds, and in the neighbourhood of the Swale Creeks, the soil consists of brick earth, gravel, and alluvial clay. Eastward are high wooded hills on gravel covered London clay. Towx.--The Town is at the head of a Creek, or navigable arm of the Swale, at the junction of the tertiaries and the chalk. The surface inclines downwards in a direction nearly South to North, the level varying from 60 feet above ordnance datum, at the upper part of the Town, (chalk, ) to 14 feet above the same datum, in parts (alluvial clay) bordering the Creek. The intermediate levels are chiefly on brick earth, with some Thanet sand. A rivulet arising in the Parish of Ospringe forms a backwater to the Creek. Country.--The Country within easy reach of Faversham, is picturesque and varied. There are the very extensive Blean Woods, and Perry Wood, on high ground, low lands stretching out to the sea shore and undulating vales surrounding Belmont. The lands are perhaps as fertile and highly cultivated as any within this county. Fruit and Hop plantations abound..