Title: The Dover road : annals of an ancient turnpike
Identifier: doverroadannalso00harp (find matches)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, Charles George, 1863-1943
Subjects: Horses; Dover road (England)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Edwin Valentine Mitchell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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CHALK 81 In Domesday Book Denton is written " Danitune," and it is generally held that the name comes from the raiding Danes, who certainly troubled this estuary ; but it is probalDly " Dene-town," the place in the vale ; perhaps in contradistinction to Higham, which is not far off. Chalk is the next place on the road, and Chalk is quite the smallest and most scattered of villages, beginning at the summit of the hill leading out of ^Milton and ending at Chalk church, which stands on a hillock retired behind a clump of trees nearly a mile
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JOE GARGERY'S FORGE. down the road, and far aAvay from any house. All the way the road commands long reaches of the Thames and the Essex marshes, and on summer days the singing of the larks high in air above the open fields can be heard. At Chalk, in 1836, Charles Dickens rented a honey- moon cottage, on his marriage Avith Catherine Hogarth. Great controversies arose some years ago, following upon what is said to be a wrong identification of the place with a residence called the " Manor House " ; and it was stated that the real dwelling in question was the weather-boarded and much humbler cottage at the fork of the old and new roads between Gravesend and Northfleet, still standing, and with a commemorative tablet on it. Opposite is " Joe Gargery's Forge."

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