A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STONAR, a quondam town and a parish in Thanet district, Kent. The town stood on the river Stonr, 1 mile NNE of Sandwich; is supposed to have been the Lapis Titnli of the Romans; was the place of Louis the Dauphin's debarkation in 1216, and of Edward III.'s embarkation in 1359; was destroyed by the French in 1385; figured as a member of Sandwich in 1773; and is now represented by only a farm house. The parish comprises 670 acres. Post town, Sandwich. Real property, £1,546. Pop., 42. Houses, 8. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, not reported. Patron, the Crown, by lapse. There is no church.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a quondam town and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Stonar AP/CP Thanet RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Stonar |
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