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SITTINGBOURNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 162 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SITTINGBOURNE , a See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Faversham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, on a navigable See also:creek of the Swale, 44; in. E.S.E. of See also:London by the See also:South Eastern and See also:Chatham railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 8943. It consists principally of one See also:long See also:street (the See also:Roman Watling Street) and the See also:northern suburb of See also:Milton, a See also:separate urban district (pop. 7086), celebrated for its oysters, the See also:fishery of which used to employ a large number of the inhabitants. See also:Brick and See also:cement making is an important See also:industry, and there are See also:corn and See also:paper See also:mills. The export See also:trade in corn and import trade in See also:coal is considerable. St See also:Michael's See also:church, originally See also:Early See also:English, underwent extensive restoration in 1873. An earthwork known as See also:Castle Rough, in the marshes below Milton, was probably the See also:work of Hasten the Dane in 892, and Bayford Castle, a mile distant_ occupies the site of one said to have been built in opposition by See also:King. See also:Alfred. Tong Castle is about 2 M. E. of Sitting-See also:bourne It consists of a high See also:mound surrounded by a See also:moat, and is said to have been erected by See also:Hengest.

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masonry exist about the mound. The See also:story of the See also:founding of the castle resembles that connected with the See also:city of See also:Carthage. See also:Vortigern is said to have granted Hengest as much See also:land as an ox-hide could encompass, and the hide being cut into strips the site of Tong Castle was accordingly marked out. The same tradition attaches to Tong Castle in See also:Shropshire. Tradition also asserts, according to the 12th See also:century chronicler, See also:Geoffrey of See also:Monmouth, that it was in Tong Castle that Vortigern met Rowena, Hengest's daughter, and became so enamoured of her as to resign his See also:kingdom to her See also:father. In the See also:time of See also:Richard II. Tong Castle belonged to See also:Edmund See also:Mortimer; See also:earl of See also:March. Sittingbourne (Scedungburna, Sidyngbourn) is mentioned in Saxon documents in 989 and frequently In contemporary records of the 13th and 14th centuries. The first See also:charter was not obtained until 1573, when it was incorporated by See also:Elizabeth under the See also:title of a " See also:guardian and See also:free tenants " of the town of Sitting-bourne. A weekly market was granted, two fairs yearly at Whitsuntide and Michaelmas, and many other privileges. This charter obtained until in 1599 a second one incorporated thetown by the name of " See also:mayor and jurats " and regranted the market and fairs together with some additional privileges, among others that of returning members to See also:parliament, which, however, was never exercised.

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