The Ballad of Salt and Stone
A modern-day ballad for East Kent
Kent Maps Online
Welcome to Kent Maps Online!
Kent Maps Online is an open access, Digital Heritage project developed by Canterbury Christ Church University in collaboration with JSTOR Labs. Our aim is to start new conversations between researchers across all disciplines, with a shared interest in the history of Kent.
Entries draw on a range of archival sources including: maps, pictures and postcards, manuscript records and newspapers. Click on the pin or image icons to view historic maps or pictures integrated into each article.
The site is fully searchable, with hyperlinks on each page, to help you find your own answers to questions you haven’t thought of yet.
Featured Essays
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)
‘We don’t think much of Ramsgate here,” I went on, “Not even two hundred years old! And hasn’t got a mayor and corporation!’ How I Married Him Best-selling author, playwright and, according to som...
Dickens and Broadstairs
Dickens visited in: 1837, 1839-43, 1845, 1847, 1849-51, 1859. Publication(s) ‘Our Watering Place’ (1851), David Copperfield (1848-50). ‘Half awake and half asleep, this idle morning in our sunny ...
All Essays
A True Relation: Mrs Veal and The Making of the Modern Ghost Story
‘A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal, the Next Day After Her Death, to One Mrs Bargrave at Canterbury, the 8th of September, 1705’ first appeared in 1706 as a short, anonymous pamphle...
The Ballad of Salt and Stone
A modern-day ballad for East Kent
Dale Street, Chatham
In this article Helen Counsell remembers her childhood living in Dale Street, Chatham.
Out of Town
Charles Dickens Out of Town describes Pavilionstone, his name for Folkestone.
Women's Cricket and the Suffragette Movement in Kent
A suffragette attack on the Nevill Ground Cricket Pavilion at Tunbridge Wells shocked pre-war kent as women challenged their subjugated roles in society and their invisibility in sport.
Sir Thomas Cheyne: Sheppey’s Forgotten Knight
Like most families of nobility during the early modern period, the Cheynes could trace their lineage back to the Norman Conquest. Thomas Cheyne was born c. 1485, the son of William de Cheyne and Ma...
Suffocation on Sea
A neurodivergent perspective of visiting Herne Bay
How Christianity Came to Kent
The arrival of Christianity in England
Fort Pitt Grammar School
In this article Helen Counsell remembers her time at Fort Pitt Grammar School in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and looks back at the history of the school site.
The Raid of Dover
An article about Douglas Morey Ford's 1910 novel The Raid of Dover written for Dover at Night 2026.
Tree roundels
Tree roundels of stately oaks grace the landscape south of Canterbury.
On The Marsh
Romney Marsh prompts a particular kind of watchfulness, something close to unease. It is the perfect setting for literary crime.