Kent is the realm’s gate and its garden: every road to the southern water runs through it, and the crossing is made from its coast. These chapters keep to Dover’s quays and its port-reeve, to the water and what a crossing costs, and to the caves and drowned lands along the shore; then they go inland, to Maidstone and its guildhall, the Marsh and its sheep, the chalk about Wye, and the old ports of Sandwich and Romney, which the silt has closed.
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Book V, chapter 1
Kent at a Glance
20 min read
Book V, chapter 4The Port, the Quays, and the Port-Reeve
25 min read
Book V, chapter 8The Water, and What a Crossing Costs
19 min read
Book V, chapter 10The Coast, the Caves, and the Rocks Offshore
18 min read
Book V, chapter 15The Drowned Lands, and the Edge That Holds Them Off
12 min read
Book V, chapter 19The See That Lost the Ordering
16 min read
Book V, chapter 22What Kent Feeds, and to Whom
15 min read
Book V, chapter 24The Marsh, the Levels, and the Sheep
16 min read
Book V, chapter 25Maidstone, the Guildhall, and the Mayor
18 min read
Book V, chapter 26The Pikes of Wye, and a House on Its Own Ground
20 min read
Book V, chapter 29Sandwich, Romney, and the Ports That Silted
17 min read
Book V, chapter 30Wye, Godmersham, and the Chalk
17 min read
