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Hythe

Seaside resort (one of the original Cinque Ports) in the Romney Marsh area of Kent, southeast England; population (2001) 14,200. Industries include horticulture and the manufacture of plastics.

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St Leonard's Church is partly late-Norman with a large chancel and a crypt containing a large number of human skulls and bones. The Royal Military Canal (constructed 1804-06) was built as a defence against the threatened Napoleonic invasion, and is now a recreation area and scene of an annual water festival. The terminus of the Romney, Hythe, and Dymchurch narrow-gauge railway is here. Said to be the smallest public railway in the world, it runs for 23 km/14 mi from Hythe to Dungeness. Saltwood Castle, dating mainly from the 14th century, lies nearby to the north.



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Barkis's box), and told me that Miss Betsey lived near Dover, but whether at Dover itself, at Hythe, Sandgate, or Folkestone, she could not say.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
When I came off the galley at Hythe, this very day, I down on my bones, and I kissed the good brown earth, as I kiss thee now, ma belle, for it was eight long years since I had seen it.
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