 It stands on the River Medway at a point where the tributaries of the combined Rivers Beult and Teise enter the main stream Kent has land borders with East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London, and a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames estuary. Kent also has a
nominal border with France halfway along the Channel Tunnel it is a 50 km-long (31 miles) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover, connecting Folkestone, Kent in England to Coquelles near Calais in northern France. The two cities in Kent are Canterbury, it is a cathedral city, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Rochester, is the seat of the Bishop of
Rochester. The town is home to a number of important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are Rochester Castle and Rochester Cathedral Many of the buildings in the town centre date from the
18th century or as early as the 14th century. Some of the best preserved
medieval towns in the UK can be found here, their characteristic "Kent peg" roofs, are laid out in a street plan which has changed little since the creation of the Doomsday
book in 1086. |
