AYLESFORD, a town in the Medway parliamentary division of Kent, England, 31 m.
The name of the larger group of monuments close by, called the Countless Stones, is due to the popular belief, which occurs elsewhere, that they are not to be counted.
The supposed tomb of Horsa, who fell in the same battle, is situated at Horsted, about 2 m.
The tombs are all located on the south-facing lower slopes of the North Downs.
One group is concentrated between Maidstone and Rochester on the eastern side of the Medway and another between Snodland and Wrotham to the west of the river.
Unlike the tombs of Wessex there is little evidence for earlier activity such as causewayed enclosures but there are plenty of later prehistoric and even Roman ceremonial sites in the vicinity of the megaliths.
Medway, built in 1686, only sixteen years after the founding of the colony, and now the oldest house in South Carolina of record, is in plan and situation typical of the plantation houses to be built in the lowcountry for the next hundred years.
Originating at Medway was the Janus-like scheme, which provides for the house facing both ways with both a river prospect and a landside entrance, a situation common to the region.
In the 19th century Medway enjoyed a sound economic mixture of agriculture and industry by making rice while the weather was hot and brick when it was cold.
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On 12 December 1717 at Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Jonathan married Mehitabel Plimpton, daughter of John Plimpton and Jane Damon.
On 27 February 1728 at Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Bethia married Timothy Stearns, son of Samuel Stearns and Mary Hawkins.
On 1 January 1730/31 at Medway, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, Hannah married Timothy Ellis, son of Samuel Ellis and Deborah Lovell.
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It rises in Sussex and flows through Kent and Medway Towns unitary authority, becoming an estuary at Rochester, before entering the Thames at Sheerness.
Micawber was induced to think, on inquiry, that there might be an opening for a man of his talent in the Medway Coal Trade.
But soon the course of the ship opens the entrance of the Medway, with its men-of-war moored in line, and the long wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settlement upon a wild and unexplored shore.
The town is pleasantly situated on the north-east bank of the river Medway, over which is a neat modern stone-bridge of six arches; it consists of one principal street, on the east side of which the ground rises abruptly to an elevation of one hundred feet.
Perhaps, until the Medway bridge was built, the parish lines respected the natural boundary of the Medway.
Against the east gable and under the central piers of the chancel of the parish church at Aylesford is one of the finest rectangular tomb chests in Kent.
Roman centurions in charge of crucifixions had to ensure the prisoners died, or their own lives were in jeopardy.
Not only that, but Jesus had been cruelly tortured before his execution, and often even that was enough to kill a man. To revive quickly after that beggars belief.
The Christians were preaching about the Resurrection, and it just needed one opponent to go to the correct tomb and produce the body.
The brass rubbing to be seen in the pew is of a brass effigy of Lady Elizabeth Culpeper on the top of the altar tomb at the northeast corner of the chancel.
A raised vault and tomb, four feet high, was erected in the western portion of it, entirely blocking up the entrance on the north side.
A square pew, with seating for ten people, was then erected on the top of the raised tomb at the western chancel, the arch cut away and a plastered beam placed across the top of it.
Leading investors were at the Making of Medway conference in Chatham to set out their vision for the area as the main site of the Thames Gateway.
A 10-year Medway Renaissance Regeneration Framework includes the building of 16,000 homes and the creation of more than 20,000 jobs with the development of seven miles (11km) of ex-industrial land along the river.
Judith Armitt, chief executive of Medway Council but starting a new post as chief executive of the Thames Gateway area on Saturday, said she hoped to champion the Thames Gateway nationally and internationally.
Every religious house at some time or other needed an impetus to improve its finances and its worth in the eyes of the world and the possession of the shrine of a saint to which pilgrims could come and worship was as good a way as any other.
Canterbury profited richly from the tomb and shrine of Thomas Becket but until 1256, Rochester had nothing similar to offer would-be pilgrims and benefactors.
The new charter of 20 June 1541 set up a cathedral church which was to be run by a dean and six canons regular of the new established religion.
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This is a large Church which befits the County Town of Kent and stands next to the old Archbishop's Palace on the banks of the River Medway.
In the book about Kent by Arthur Mee, the dimensions of the Church are given as 116 feet long by 93 feet wide, having a tower of 80 feet at the West end.
His tomb is situated below the wall tablet.
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The voucher certificate will have a value of £100, redeemable against any form of holiday (combination of travel and accommodation) booking made through us to the value of £500 or more, and will be valid for a period of 18 months from the date of issue.
The azure-blue waters at the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa are renowned for their positive effects on the skin.
Medway Tavel has come across some unusual hotels and will be introducing you to them over the next few months.
Little has escaped their attention, neither the beautiful Decorated tomb of Bishop Walter de Merton (1278) nor that of Bishop John de Sheppey (1360).
Doubtless Chaucer and his company did not leave the great church unvisited nor fail to look curiously, nor perhaps to pray, at the shrine of St William, for they, too, were travellers and pilgrims.
But the spectacle in the little city which it might seem most filled their imagination, as it does ours, was not the Cathedral at all, but the great Keep which stands above it, frowning across the busy Medway.
A multi-million pound plan to transform the Medway towns over the next 20 years has been agreed by the local council as part of the area's £1bn regeneration.
Rodney Chambers, leader of Medway Council, said the right balance had been struck between preserving space and the need for more housing.
He added that there would be further public consultation on the projects.
Quotations from Vladimir Nabokov and Dorothy Sayers reflect one another in a pattern suggesting (as in John Shade's remarks in Pale Fire) life after death.
Epitaphs From the Old West Medway Burying Ground, 1900
Epitaphs and tomb stone enscriptions from the graves of well known people.
Sacred to the memory of Mrs Polly Adams wife of Mr Israel Adams, Who died May 22 1828 Aged 41 years.
Although most of the following names are of persons now buried in the new cemetery, I have retained them in my list for the reason that they were originally buried, and lay in the old Adams and Metcalf Tomb until the year 1881, when the tomb was demolished and they were removed.
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