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30 mag 2024 · Higham is about four miles in extent from north-west to south-east, and but little more than a mile in breadth. The surface is slat, and the soil in general very fertile, excepting towards the eastern part of it, where it is high ground and light land.
28 mag 2024 · The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a broad, shallow waterway winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between solid artificial walls, and restrained by these at high tide.
1 giorno fa · Even in Kent, an area of rich early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, the number of excavated settlements is fewer than expected. However, in contrast the counties of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire are relatively rich in early settlements.
2 giorni fa · To the Memory of Charles Dickens (England's most popular author) who died at his residence, Higham, near Rochester, Kent, 9 June 1870, aged 58 years. He was a sympathiser with the poor, the suffering, and the oppressed; and by his death, one of England's greatest writers is lost to the world.
6 giorni fa · Wikipedia has a page about Lower Higham. Higham is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The village lies just north-west of Strood, in the Medway unitary authority, and south-east of Gravesend.
3 giorni fa · The prioress and nuns had licence in 1346 to make a conduit to their priory, and to acquire land in Higham; and in 1392 to acquire land. Higham came to an end before the general dissolution.
4 giorni fa · Ordnance Survey maps of Kent from the nineteenth century. Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 Epoch 1. Originally published by Ordnance Survey, Southampton, 1869-1882. This free content was digitised by scanning. All rights reserved.
