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Here is the harbour at Folkestone. The arches carry the railway line which used to take trains to the busy cross-channel ferries, to France. Now the "Tunnel" has taken that away!

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Here is a view of Kent - from the little village of Goudhurst. Hurst means a clearing in a wood, and nearly all of Kent's villages have names indicating their origin. Kent was once one vast wood, with outcrops of iron-ore which they used the wood to smelt into cast-iron and pig-iron.


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