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Whitstable in Kent County England History and GeographyWHITSTABLE, a parish in the hundred of WHITSTABLE, lathe of ST. AUGUSTINE, county of KENT, 5¾ miles (N.N.W.) from Canterbury, containing, with the hamlet of Harwich, 1611 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury, endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is dedicated to All Saints. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. This parish lies near the entrance to the East Swale, opposite the Isle of Sheppy. On the shore by Tankerton are several copper-houses, where considerable quantities of copperas, or green vitriol, are manufactured. Whistable bay is frequented by a number of colliers, from which Canterbury and the surrounding places are supplied with coal, by means of the Canterbury and Whitstable railway. It is also the station of hoys, which sail to and from London alternately, every week, with goods and passengers. Many boats are employed in the fisheries, Whitstable being a royalty of fishery, or oyster dredging, appendant to the manor, and for the due regulation of the trade a court is held annually in February. There are fairs on Thursday before Whitsuntide, near the water side; on Midsummer-day, at Church-street; and on St. James' day, on Greensted-green, in Whitstable-street, which is a thriving and populous village, containing shops well stored with every necessary article of consumption for those engaged in the extensive traffic here carried on. Great quantities of Roman pottery have been found in dredging for oysters round a rock, now called the Pudding-pan, which is supposed by some to have been the island Caunos of Ptolemy, though now covered by the sea. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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