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February 06, 2019
Lower England: "Are you a Man of Kent?"
As with London, and with the County of Suffolk to the north, from where my mother's family came to Massachusetts via Ipswich 384 years ago, I am completely and hopelessly in love with Kent, mainly the eastern ("Men of Kent") part. The County of Kent is the southeastern doorway to the British Isles--it has even more history, legend and myth than London. Lots, and maybe even too much, has happened here during the past 2500 years. Eventually, in 51 BC, Julius Caesar called it Cantium, as home of the Cantiaci. Augustine founded what became the Anglican Church here in about 600 AD. And of course Thomas Becket, Chaucer's "holy blissful martyr", was killed here (Canterbury) in 1170.
St. John the Baptist, The Street, Barham, Kent
Posted by JD Hull at 11:00 PM | Comments (0)