Author or Editor: David Hewson
Publisher: Matador
Published: 2007
Pages: 228
It’s not easy to enter Wye. The village sits at the foot of the North Downs, three miles outside Ashford in the valley of the Stour river as it runs on to Canterbury and then the English Channel. The Romans used this narrow, serpentine waterway as an important supply route during their conquest of England. William the Conqueror found Kent much too difficult to subdue when he invaded a millennium later, which is why the county still, to this day, bears the label ‘Invicta’, undefeated, as its motto, and a warning still to incomers that the locals may, when pushed, turn
difficult. The shallow river bed and narrow channel of the river at Wye made it a natural ford in Roman times.
difficult. The shallow river bed and narrow channel of the river at Wye made it a natural ford in Roman times.
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