Hawkhurst is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The village is located close to the border with East Sussex...
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The Hawkhurst Gang was a notorious criminal organisation involved in smuggling throughout southeast England from 1735 until 1749. One of the more infamous...
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The Hawkhurst branch line was a short railway line in Kent that connected Hawkhurst, Cranbrook, Goudhurst and Horsmonden with the town of Paddock Wood...
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Viscount Goschen (redirect from Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst)
Viscount Goschen, of Hawkhurst in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1900 for the politician George...
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Arthur Gray (c. 1713–1748) was one of the leaders of the Hawkhurst Gang that operated from its base in Kent, along the South Coast of England from 1735...
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Hawkhurst railway station was on the closed Hawkhurst Branch in Kent, England. The station was opened on 4 September 1893, when the line was extended...
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However during the mid eighteenth century a smuggling gang known as the Hawkhurst Gang, operated along the South coast of England between Kent and Dorset;...
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April 1749) was an English outlaw and one of the leaders of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers that operated, from its base in Kent, along the South...
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with East Sussex. It is situated on the A268 road near the villages of Hawkhurst and Northiam. The Black Death in 1348-49 is believed to be the cause of...
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Hawkhurst Moor is a village green and sports field at Hawkhurst in Kent. It was the centre of the original village and lies to the south of the modern...
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Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter. He was educated at St. Ronan's School, Hawkhurst, Winchester College and Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating in 1952....
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avoid association with the smuggling and cockfighting activities of the Hawkhurst Gang. It is in the civil parish of Cranbrook and Sissinghurst. The nearest...
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Hawkhurst, Sandhurst & Benenden (3 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Tom Dawlings* 903 41.1 Conservative Beverley Palmer* 846 38.5 Alliance...
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Hawkhurst and Sandhurst Party Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative Godfrey Bland* 800 48.1 6.7 Alliance Heidi Eccles 291 17.5 30.6 Liberal Democrats Mike...
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caves and sandy beaches provided opportunities for gangs such as the Hawkhursts to stealthily bring smuggled goods ashore. Poole became Dorset's busiest...
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Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut The Moor, Hawkhurst, a village green in Kent, England The Moor Quarter, a street in Sheffield...
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were fought, sometimes at night, between gangs of smugglers, such as the Hawkhurst Gang, and the Revenue, supported by the army and local militias in South...
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A229 road (category Hawkhurst)
A229 is a major road running north–south through Kent from Rochester to Hawkhurst via Maidstone. It is a former Roman road that ran from Rochester to Hastings...
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1990s, continued to what is now the B2244 (then part of the A229) in Hawkhurst via what is now part of the A229. A266 Unused Was a road between Frant...
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by duel in 1694 Thomas Kingsmill (c1715–1749), leader of the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers Thomas Lloyd, stenographer of the U.S. Congress – convicted...
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Railway Series books. Awdry was educated at Marlborough House School, Hawkhurst, Kent (1919–1924), Dauntsey's School, West Lavington, Wiltshire (1924–1929)...
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parish of Hawkhurst, Kent. As a J.P. for the county he was deputed for three or four years during the Commonwealth to celebrate weddings at Hawkhurst without...
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This is a list of people from Hawkhurst, Kent, England. George Goschen (1866–1952), Member of Parliament, Governor of Madras and Acting Viceroy of India...
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built in 1156 survive. The inn has a strong connection with the notorious Hawkhurst Gang of smugglers, who used it in the 1730s and 1740s as one of their...
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Nathaniel Lardner (category People from Hawkhurst)
an English Presbyterian minister and theologian. Lardner was born in Hawkhurst, Kent in 1684. He was the elder son of Richard Lardner (1653–1740), an...
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United States Portrait of Sir John Herschel 1867 Julia Margaret Cameron Hawkhurst, England, United Kingdom Herschel would later be the godfather to Cameron's...
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A267 between Royal Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne; and the A265 from Hawkhurst. It is almost equidistant from Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne: approximately...
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the core street of The Moor Quarter of Sheffield, England The Moor, Hawkhurst, the green within The Moor Quarter's village and civil parish, England...
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Stephen's first assignment following his training. Also known as the Hawkhurst Branch Line Edge Hill Light Railway 1919 1925 none none 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in...
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The A265 road starts in the village at the A21, previously starting in Hawkhurst. There is one active church in the village: the brick-built Church of...
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