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Acol (formerly Acholt) is a village in the English county of Kent. Located about a mile and a half South of Birchington, close to the Western end of the runway at Manston Airport, there is nothing of particular note in the group of houses that cluster together to form this village. A narrow curved lane overhung by large, mature trees and that's about it. Although one of the smallest communities in Kent, it is still very lively and active with a Parish Council. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...
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Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...
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Birchington-on-sea is a town in Thanet, Kent. ...
RAF Manston was a Royal Air Force station, now known as Kent International Airport. ...
Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...
Close by Acol is the famous chalk pit where Exciseman Gill and Smuggler Bill met their deaths as told in the well known poem, The Smuggler's Leap by Richard Barham. Exciseman Gill sold his soul for a demon horse that had the ability to catch Smuggler Bill. In the swirling mist on that night in Thanet, just as Exciseman Gill caught up to the Smuggler, he drove his horse off the top of the chalk pit as did the Riding Officer. The bodies of the two men and only one horse were found later and are still said to haunt the area. Richard Harris Barham (December 6, 1788 - June 17, 1845), English humourist, better known by his nom de plume of Thomas Ingolosby, was born at Canterbury. ...
William Cobbett in 1827 when he rode to the Island The Isle of Thanet is an area of northeast Kent, England. ...
A village called Acholt was recorded at Sparrow Castle, or Kemp's Corner - the Junction between Shottenden Road (B2049), and Manston Road (B2050), in 1270, and the name goes back to the Old English, ac for oak and holt for wood. The name thus indicates a wood of oak-trees. After most of the inhabitants had died at the start of the Black Death in 1347, the village was burnt down to stop contamination, and the decision was made to move it to its current position. The new village's first name was ‘Millbrough’, and then variously ‘Ville in the Oaks’, ‘Ville in the Woods’ or ‘Ville of Woods’. Later the name became ‘Acoll’ and finally ‘Acol’. Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411). ...
The ‘Ville in the Woods’ first appears on Thomas of Elmham's map of the Isle of Thanet, Circa 1412 (now housed at Trinity Hall, Cambridge). A later reference is found in Rural Rides of 1823, written by William Cobbett was a Member of Parliament and a celebrated radical publicist and agricultural critic. He visited Thanet in the September of 1823. Full name College of Scholars of the Holy Trinity of Norwich Motto - Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names - Established 1350 Sister College University College All Souls College Master Prof. ...
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The aftermath of the Napoleonic War was a cruel time for small farmers and farm workers. Starvation wages, low prices and crippling taxes drove many to desperation and caused social upheavals on the land. At first sight, Cobbett was most impressed: "When I got upon the corn land in the Isle Of Thanet, I got into a garden indeed." He avoided Margate as being "full of Stockjobbing Cuckolds at this time of year..." He breakfasted at a little Hamlet (Acol) "But could get no corn for my Horse, and no Bacon for myself." Regarding the local conditions, Cobbett was moved to comment, "The Labourers houses, all along, through this Island are beggarly in the extreme. The People dirty, poorlooking, ragged, but particularly dirty. It is impossible to have an idea of anything more miserable than the state of the Labourers in this part of the country". The Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. ...
Location within the British Isles Margate was known as Meregate (in 1254) or Margate (in 1293) is on the Isle of Thanet in Kent, England. ...
In reality, the condition for labourers throughout Kent at the time were deteriorating to the point where unrest brought about the start of the "Swing Riots" in 1833/4. At the same time, many labourers left Kent, often with the grateful assistance of their parish councils who did not want to keep supporting them, to take up new lives in the colonies in North America and particularly Australia and New Zealand. The Swing Riots were an uprising by the rural workers of the arable south and east of England in 1830. ...
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