Hythe (Kent)
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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
- Hamo Hythe (around 1270 – after May 1357), Bishop of Rochester
- Francis Pettit Smith (1838-1874), inventor
- Robert Holdstock (1948-2009), author
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ 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. - ^ 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