Hythe (Kent)

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Hythe
Hythe (England)
Hythe
Hythe
Location in England

Houses on the high street
Basic data
status Market Town and Civil Parish
surface 12.27 km²
population 14,516 (as of 2011)
Ceremony county Kent
District Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency Folkestone and Hythe
Website: www.hythetc.kentparishes.gov.uk

Hythe is a small town and a civil parish on the south coast of the English county of Kent near Folkestone with around 14,500 inhabitants (as of 2011). The place is known as a founding member of the Cinque Ports association of cities . The name “Hythe” or “Hithe” comes from Anglo-Saxon and means “landing place” or “harbor” (see also Hude-Orte ).

Today the village is considered a quiet place and a recreation area for both British and tourists. With a connection to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway , which was for a long time the smallest public railway in the world, and to regional trains ( Sandling station ), various cities such as Brighton, Canterbury and also London are easy to reach. Since the closure of the Sandgate branch line , Sandling is the next standard-gauge station.

History

Until 1939, Hythe was the location of a test station for the acoustic location of aircraft with concave mirror microphones . After the advent of radar technology in 1935, the research institute lost its importance.

Sons of the city

See also

Web links

Commons : Hythe, Kent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Grantham: Hythe sound mirrors . Retrieved June 19, 2016.
    Solveig Grothe: Forgotten Technologies - Giant Concrete Ears. one day on Spiegel Online , May 23, 2011, accessed on June 19, 2016.
  2. ^ Richard Newton Scarth: Echoes from the Sky: A Story of Acoustic Defense. Hythe Civic Society, 1999, ISBN 1-900101-30-0 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 1 ° 5 ′  E