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CRANBROOK , a See also:market-See also:town in the See also:southern See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, 45 M. S.E. of See also:London on a See also:branch of the See also:South-Eastern & See also:Chatham railway from Paddock See also:Wood. Pop. (1901) 3949• It lies on the See also:Crane See also:brook, a feeder of the See also:river Beult, in •a pleasant See also:district, hilly and well wooded. It See also:hasa See also:fine See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church (mainly Perpendicular) dedicated to St See also:Dunstan, which is remarkable for a See also:baptistery, built in the See also:early See also:part of the 18th See also:century, and some See also:ancient stained See also:glass. As the centre of the agricultural district of the Kentish See also:Weald, it carries on an extensive See also:trade in See also:malt, hops and See also:general goods; but its See also:present See also:condition is in striking contrast to the activity it displayed from the 14th to the 17th century, when it was one of the See also:principal seats of the broadcloth manufacture. Remains of some of the old factories still exist. The town has a See also:grammar school of Elizabethan See also:foundation, which now ranks as one of the smaller public See also:schools. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the old See also:mansion See also:house of Sissinghurst, or Saxenhurst, built in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Edward VI.
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