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The History of Medieval Gravesend (eBook, ePUB)
~EN NW EBISBN: 9780955592539 bzw. 0955592534, vermutlich in Englisch, Echoes from History, neu, E-Book.
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The name Gravesham goes back to the tenth century and beyond; before the Domesday Book, and centuries before the plague came to England. The name Gravesham was the village belonging to the Greeve (Greeve's Ham) and showed where his authority ended (Greeve's End).This book looks at the parishes and manors of the borough before the time of the Tudors - an Anglo Saxon settlement was here, as was a royal palace. The rights to a market were granted by the king and rights to ferry goods and passengers to London was jealously guarded. Archbishops were bornhere the town was destroyed by an invasion from France and survivors from the Wars of the Roses built their homes here.Virtually everyone wanting to travel from London to Canterbury or Dover had to pass through Gravesham, one way or another.
The name Gravesham goes back to the tenth century and beyond; before the Domesday Book, and centuries before the plague came to England. The name Gravesham was the village belonging to the Greeve (Greeve's Ham) and showed where his authority ended (Greeve's End).This book looks at the parishes and manors of the borough before the time of the Tudors - an Anglo Saxon settlement was here, as was a royal palace. The rights to a market were granted by the king and rights to ferry goods and passengers to London was jealously guarded. Archbishops were bornhere the town was destroyed by an invasion from France and survivors from the Wars of the Roses built their homes here.Virtually everyone wanting to travel from London to Canterbury or Dover had to pass through Gravesham, one way or another.
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