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Whitstable is a seaside town in northeast
Kent and is known as the "Pearl of Kent". In 1830,
the world's first passenger railway service was opened by the
Canterbury and Whitstable Railway Company and, in 1932, the company
opened Whitstable harbour and extended the line to enable passage
to London from the port. The railway has since closed but Whitstable
harbour still plays an important role in the town's economy.
Archaeological finds indicate that the Whitstable area was inhabited
during the Palaeolithic era, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
Whitstable is famous for its oysters, which have been collected
in the area since at least Roman times, and charters indicate
that there were Saxon settlements where salt production and coastal
trade occurred. Whitstable was first recorded in the Domesday Book
of 1086, under the name Witenestaple, meaning "the meeting
place of the white post", which
referred to a local landmark. At that time, Witenestaple was
an administrative area which stretched from the coast to the
village of Blean, north of Canterbury. More...
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