Mount Hawke Wesleyan Methodist Chapel lies in the centre of the village, northwards from the parish church (see links). It sits on the right-hand side of the Fore Street junction, as the road curves ...

Higher Bal Methodist Church sits next door to the site of the former first and second Wesleyan Methodist chapels (see 'related links'), the second of which was superseded by this building. The site on ...

One of those castles which is not really a castle, the story behind Whitstable Castle (or Tankerton Towers as it has also been known) began in the fifteenth century. The mineral alum was in high need ...

Returning to St Agnes and Vicarage Road from the cemetery, St Agnes Old Goodfellows Hall sits on the left. Built in 1881 as the Oddfellow's Hall it is also recognised in records as a place of worship, ...

Deal Castle was built between 1539-1540 on the orders of Henry VIII. It was one of a series of coastal fortifications which also included Walmer Castle and Sandown Castle (see 'related links', below).

The independent kingdom of Laos emerged out of preceding French Laos and Japanese Occupation. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD the Thai established the principality of Muong Swa (now ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The Roman administration of Britannia officially came to an end in AD 410, although in practise the Romano-British had governed themselves for some time and had expelled that administration in 409 ...

The Picts occupied Britain north of the Antonine Wall, although in actual fact there never was a race or tribe called the Picts. No Picts existed as any sort of identifiably separate people The name ...

Modern Finland (Suomi to the Finns themselves) emerged into European history not only as Finland (in modern southern Finland) but also as Kvenland, a vast, ill-defined reach of Scandinavian and ...