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Small Hythe

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The area of Small Hythe was still on the coast in Roman times. At that time (1st to 3rd Century AD) there was already an important port from which timber and iron were supposedly shipped to the continent, and a small settlement, as evidenced by finds of Roman bricks and an earthen
415:, in acknowledgement of providing royal warships built in Small Hythe. A storm of 1636 carried away the dam and the river returned to its former course. Small craft were still able to reach Small Hythe until gradual 400:. Large sea-going warships were built on the river banks from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, with associated ship-breaking for reuse of fittings and timber. The ready supply of timber from the 470: 323:
and was a busy shipbuilding port in the 15th century, before the silting up and draining of the Romney Marshes. Small Hythe's quays and warehouses were destroyed in a fire in 1514 and were never rebuilt.
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Small Hythe appears as "Smalide" in the legal dispute about land in Tenterden and Small Hythe in 1460, and as "Smallitt" in the eighteenth century.
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made this isolated community one of the most important shipbuilding centres, other than the major ports, in the country.
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This broad expanse of farmland was once an estuary and the location of an important ferry crossing to the
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Season 6 Episode 6: account of brief archaeological exploration of the shipbuilding areas
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and houses her collection of theatrical memorabilia and a small theatre.
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England's medieval Navy, 1066-1509 : ships, men & warfare
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Records of early English Drama: Kent : Diocese of Canterbury
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Smallhythe Place: Rare Roman head of Mercury found during dig
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between 1899 and her death in 1928. It is now managed by the
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Dickens, Naomi (2013). "Smallhythe ferry crossing".
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put an end to this, early in the twentieth century.
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Small Hythe is located in Kent
Kent
District
Ashford
Shire county
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Tenterden
Postcode district
TN30
Police
Kent
Fire
Kent
Ambulance
South East Coast
UK Parliament
Ashford
UK
England
Kent
51°02′29″N 0°41′58″E / 51.0414°N 0.6994°E / 51.0414; 0.6994
Tenterden
Kent

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