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Did you know ...

• the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250?
  
• the Grade I listed Franks Hall, in Horton Kirby, Kent, England, was used as a barn in the 1850s?
• the Doric-style temple in Mote Park near Maidstone in Kent commemorates the review by George III and William Pitt the Younger of a militia formed to repel Napoleon?
• the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?
• the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails, and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent?
• when King Edward VII opened Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, England, in 1905, that the main corridor was almost 1,000 feet (300 m) long?
• the only Edward Medal awarded in the Kent coalfield was won at Tilmanstone Colliery, one of only four successful pits in Kent out of twelve planned or built?
• the 600-year-old Westgate in Canterbury, Kent, is the largest surviving city gate in England, with double-decker buses still squeezing through it (process pictured)?
• in the 1930s Lady Olive Baillie held house parties at Leeds Castle, Kent, England, and her guests included the film stars Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, and Gertrude Lawrence?
• Sarre Windmill was the first windmill in Kent to have a steam engine installed as auxiliary power?
• Ringle Crouch Green, Sandhurst was the only five-sailed corn mill in Kent?
• Lower Mill, Woodchurch, a smock mill in Kent, is a Scheduled Ancient Monument?
• The Haunted House written by Charles Dickens in 1859 is the inspiration for an attraction which can be seen at Chatham in Kent?
• although SS Empire Beatrice was scrapped in 1966, a 50-foot (15 m) long section of her can still be found off Dungeness, Kent?
• an oast house is a traditional Kentish structure for drying hops before brewing?
• ambulanceman Stanley Skinner was awarded the British Empire Medal for his actions in the aftermath of the train crash at Marden, Kent in 1969?
• Chillenden Windmill was the last post mill built in Kent, replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?