Preston in East Kent, a village on a tidal creek off the Wantsum Channel.

Preston, East Kent, is shown above on the Ordnance Surevy’s first published map of Kent in 1801, The County of Kent – map by William Mudge 1801, the first map published by the Ordnance Survey. I think that the area covered by the Wantsum Channel is essentially the marshes that are indicated so clearly on … Read more