Kent

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"Garden of England"

Kent is an historic county of England. (For more information about the ancient counties of the UK, see the historic counties page and the place types page.)

From The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72):

A maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the straits of Dover; on the SE by the English channel; on the S, by the English channel and by Sussex; on the W, by Surrey.

It is separated, by the Thames, from the metropolitan part of Middlesex, and from all the S border of Essex; and, by the river Rother and headstreams of the MEdway, from parts of Sussex.

Many fine trout and other fish are found in the rivers; oysters are largely fished at Queenborough, Rochester, and Faversham; shrimps are taken in large quantitites at Gravesend and Ramsgate; soles, flounders, and other fish are caught at these places, and at Milton, Whitstable, Margate, Deal, Dover, and Folkestone; and fisheries of cod, herring and mackerel are carried on in the adjacent seas.