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Hotels in Kent are often required for tourists who require short term accommodation when they visit the county. Some may want to visit the county to see the culture, sports, tourist attractions and society of the famous English county. Some may want to stay at old or new hotels in the county. Some may want to stay at at well known hotels in the county. Some may want to stay at well knonw hotels in the county. Some may want to stay at hotels that are set in rural or urban areas.
Hotels in Kent are often required for tourists.
Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of Medway. Kent has a nominal border with France halfway through the Channel Tunnel. Maidstone is its county town and historically Rochester and Canterbury have been accorded city status though only the latter still holds it.
Kent's location between London and the continent has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during World War II. East Kent was named Hell Fire Corner during the conflict. England has relied on the county's ports to provide warships through much of the past 800 years; the Cinque Ports in the 12th–14th centuries and Chatham Dockyard in the 16th–20th centuries were of particular importance to the country's security. France can be seen clearly in fine weather from the iconic White Cliffs of Dover
Because of its abundance of orchards and hop gardens, Kent is widely known as The Garden of England — a name often applied when marketing the county or its produce, although other regions have tried to lay claim to the title.
Kent is the south-easternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea, and on the south by the Straits of Dover and the English Channel. The continent of Europe is a mere 21 miles across the Strait.
The major geographical features of the county are determined by a series of ridges running from west to east across the county. These ridges are the remains of the Wealden dome, a denuded anticline across Kent and Sussex, which was the result of uplifting caused by the Alpine movements. The dome was formed of an upper layer of chalk above subsequent layers of Upper Greensand, upper clay, Lower Greensand, lower clay and red sandstone. The top of the dome eventually eroded away through weathering and ridges and valleys resulted across Kent and Sussex due to the exposed clay eroding at a faster rate than the exposed chalk, greensand and red sandstone and nomal sandstone. The following ridges and the valleys have formed across Kent, listed from north to south:
the low lying London Clay marshlands along the Thames/Medway estuaries and along
the North Kent coast;
the chalk North Downs, containing the highest point
of the county, Betsom's Hill, at 251m/823ft.
the Vale of Holmesdale formed
from Gault clay overlaid in the north with the upper layer greensand;
the
Greensand Ridge, formed from the lower layer of greensand, containing the source
of the River Medway and its tributaries;
the Low Weald, a Wealden Clay valley
the red sandstone High Weald.
The chalk comes in three layers: the upper layer, about 500 feet thick, is a pure white limestone bedded and jointed with localised masses of flint (ideal for cement); the middle layer, about 170 feet thick, is a compact white chalk occasionally hard enough for building; the lower layer, about 170 feet thick, is a greyish marly chalk. Dartford, Gravesend, The Medway Towns, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Canterbury, Deal and Dover are built on chalk.
Kent's principal river, the River Medway, rises near Edenbridge and flows some 25 miles eastwards to a point near Maidstone when it turns north. Here it breaks through the North Downs at Rochester before joining the River Thames as its final tributary near Sheerness. The river is tidal as far as Allington lock, but in earlier times cargo-carrying vessels reached as far upstream as Tonbridge. The Medway has captured the head waters of other rivers such as the River Darent. There are other rivers in Kent, most notably the River Stour in the east.
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