Top 10 Best Tourist Places to Visit in Kent, Washington State | USA - English
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Kent is one of the biggest tourist attractions in USA having many best places in Kent. Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest municipality in greater Seattle and the sixth-largest in Washington state. So to help you figure out the places you need to try, we've gathered up a bucket list of the best Places in Kent that you won't regret going to.
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Top 10 Best Street Foods to Visit in Kent | USA - English
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Kent is a city in King County, Washington, United States. It is part of the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue metropolitan area and had a population of 136,588 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-largest municipality in greater Seattle and the sixth-largest in Washington state. In this video, we are going to discuss top 10 Street Foods in Kent and the finest places to eat in Kent. Our esteemed viewers are in for a treat today, and they must dine in these best Street Foods to visit in Kent to get the real taste of some of the most delicious dishes ever cooked.
There are countless Street Foods in Kent and eateries which includes Kent best Street Foods for everyone no matter what their taste buds are craving. These Kent Street Foods provide top quality food with superb taste, and an amazing environment for dining in with family and friends. Visit Kent best Street Foods in Kent, and enjoy an amazing food tourism. Make unlimited memories and cherish some of these amazing menus, cuisines, and themes.
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Rochester, KENT England | Historic Place to visit
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Our first visit to a beautiful historic Rochester, Kent .
Rochester is a town in the unitary authority of Medway, in Kent, England. It is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles (50 km) from London. Rochester was a city until losing its status as one in 1998 following the forming of Medway and failing to protect its status as a city. There have been ongoing campaigns to reinstate the city status for Rochester.
Rochester was for many years a favourite of Charles Dickens, who owned nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, basing many of his novels on the area. The Diocese of Rochester, the second oldest in England, is centred on Rochester Cathedral and was responsible for the founding of a school, now The King's School in 604 AD, which is recognised as being the second oldest continuously running school in the world. Rochester Castle, built by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best preserved keeps in either England or France, and during the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it.
Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages form a single large urban area known as the Medway Towns with a population of about 250,000. These places now make up the Medway Unitary Authority area. It was, until 1998, under the control of Kent County Council and is still part of the ceremonial county of Kent, under the latest Lieutenancies Act.
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Most Dangerous Place to Live in Kent! Most Dangerous Town in Kent!
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Welcome back! Today are you ready for an eye-opening journey through the perilous corners of England and Kent? Brace yourself as we unveil the dark side of these otherwise beautiful locations. From crime-ridden streets to places you'd never want to call home, this video will expose the most dangerous town in kent, giving you a glimpse into the chilling realities that lurk within.
Living in England has its perks, but it's not all tea and crumpets. Discover the treacherous neighborhoods and uncover why these places have gained a notorious reputation. We'll explore the most dangerous places to live in England and delve into the shocking crime rates that keep residents on edge. It's a wild ride you won't want to miss!
But wait, there's more! We'll zoom in on the infamous county of Kent, revealing its darkest secrets. From crime-infested corners to areas that will make you want to pack your bags, Kent has its fair share of trouble spots. Learn about the worst places to live in Kent, and trust us, you'll think twice before settling down in these risky areas.
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Best Attractions & Things to do in Chatham, Massachusetts MA
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Rochester Castle History & Tour / The Great Siege & Forty Fat Pigs
Rochester Castle History & Tour / The Great Siege & Forty Fat Pigs
For over 800 years Rochester Castle has stood overlooking the River Medway in the historic town of Rochester. The castle is widely regarded as one of the most exceptional examples of Norman architecture in England. Its keep, in particular, stands as the tallest surviving tower of its kind in Europe. The castle played a critical role during the Barons Wars, the siege of Rochester Castle by King John in 1215 is one of the most renowned and well-documented episodes in English history.
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Discovering Massachusetts - Ashland to Northbridge (19)
Welcome to my series of discovering Massachusetts. I will travel to every town and city in Massachusetts showcasing the history, natural beauty and uniqueness of every one of our towns and cities. There are a total of 351 towns and cities in the state of Massachusetts.
In this video I head southwest of Boston exploring everything from state parks to town commons. I head to Hopkinton where the Boston Marathon starts and visit the beautiful Ashland State Park. Make sure to check out in 4K quality.
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Welcome To Medway
Where the hell is Medway, Massachusetts anyway?
As a child of Medway, I decided it was about time to make a travel video of the town I lived a good chunk of my life in. And like any person revisiting their middle and highschool hometown, we are very non-PR about the whole thing. Ha ha ha.
With my current Medway Travel Expert - Bella Pagliazzo, we explore the vast excitement that is Medway, Massachusetts. And we play in Ocean State Job Lot a lot. Cause really, in Medway, there is not much else to do besides go get something to eat, then play in Ocean State.
This video is probably going to be hated publicly by the Town of Medway, and laughed at privately in their homes. But let's be honest people, it's Medway, not Disney Land. But somehow Medway does have a surprising history of having amazing food places. I have no idea why.....
If you are not from Medway this may not be as funny. If you are from a small suburbia-cow town, then just insert your own town name and it may be close. If you are from the city, you suck cause im jealous and you had so much stuff to actually do.
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UPNOR CASTLE | RIVER MEDWAY KENT
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Myself and Candice returned to Upnor on the banks of the River Medway in Kent to visit Upnor Castle and later (in a separate video) to wild camp at the remains of Cockhamwood Fort.
There was a wedding being held in the castle, so we only had an hour or so before it started, so apologies if it seems like a rushed video, plus I wanted an easy video to edit and post! Work has been very busy, as has work on the channel, so I only did a couple of voice overs on this one. I have included photos and allowed for viewers to pause to read through the MANY information boards regarding the history of the castle and it's role in the infamous Dutch raid of 1667 on the Medway.
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MEDWAY WALK | Gillingham Victory Pier to Universities
A walk from the new riverside apartments Victory Pier, along the River Medway and marina then past Asda and the Mast & Rigging Pub before going over the bridge into the universities.
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00:00 - Pier Quay/Pearl Lane
05:50 - Pier Approach Road
10:00 - Asda
11:50 - Mast & Rigging Pub
13:50 - Gillingham Gate Road
14:25 - Pier Road A289
15:45 - Bridge to Universities
19:00 - University of Kent/University of Greenwich
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The White Cliffs of Dover are cliffs which form part of the British coastline facing out to sea towards continental Europe and France. The cliff face, which reaches up to 110 metres owes its striking façade to its composition of chalk. They spread both East and West from the town of Dover and because crossing at Dover was the primary route to the continent before air travel, the white line of cliffs also formed the first or last sight of the UK for travelers. The ancient Port of Dover still thrives to this day and is the gateway to one of Britain's prettiest counties. The County of Kent, is often called the Garden of England. It earned that reputation from the growing of apples and hops. Hops are used in the brewing of beer to give it its distinct bitter taste flavour and aroma and were once processed in coastal houses where the hops were dried. These coastal houses can still be found dotted throughout Kent, but nowadays many have been converted into upmarket homes. Today the county is beginning to make a name for itself for producing wine rather than beer, with its soil conditions similar to that of the Champagne region in France combined with one of the mildest climates in Britain vines thrive here. Major landmarks of the county include Leeds Castle whom some call the loveliest castle in the world and historic Hever Castles, the childhood home of Anne Boelyn who would later go on to marry King Henry VIII. However one of the oldest and most impressive landmarks in Kent is to be found here in the picturesque city of Canterbury. It is of course Canterbury Cathedral. First built in 597 AD Canterbury Cathedral is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion. After the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in the Cathedral in 1170 by knights working for King Henry II, Canterbury became an important place of pilgrimage and people came from all over Europe to worship here. Over the decades the pilgrims and the money they brought with them transformed this Cathedral. Thomas Beckett was made a saint soon after his death and these 12 glorious stained glass windows are dedicated to his life and works. The Cathedral still dominates the city's skyline to this day and is as impressive now as it has always been.
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Plymouth, Massachusetts Historic Landmarks 🇺🇸 [4K]
Plymouth is a coastal town in Massachusetts, south of Boston. It is the site of the first Pilgrim settlement, founded in 1620. Plymouth Rock, a boulder in Pilgrim Memorial State Park, marks the place where settlers are thought to have landed on shore. The Mayflower II, a full-scale replica of the ship that carried the Pilgrims across the Atlantic, is usually anchored at the park.
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Medway Megaliths | Kit's Coty | Little Kit's Coty | White Horse Stone | Oh and Some Wine Obvs
A Sunday afternoon stroll around the Medway Megaliths, a group of Neolithic monuments including Kit's Coty, Little Kit's Coty and the White Horse Stone.
By happy coincidence there's a vineyard of the same name next to the Kit's Coty stones, so the talk of dolmens and long barrows is intermingled with some observations on English Wine - particularly the two main producers in Kent: Chapel Down and Gusbourne.
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I recorded way too much footage on this outing, and tried to keep the main video under 20 minutes, but couldn't quite bear to throw away the other bits, so if you're a real glutton for punishment here's a further three videos with deleted/extended scenes from this outing:
Some musings about Open Access Land in Kent (or the lack thereof) and the North Downs Way:
Extended wine babble about the Gusbourne Pinot Noir over on the @BurgundyWithTweedy channel:
The Walk back to Chatham, featuring what I thought was quite an interesting strip of woodland sandwiched between the M2 and the A2045:
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Located in the county of Kent, and around 30 miles east, and slightly south, of central London, is the town of Rochester (although formerly a city up until 1998).
Geographically Rochester is situated at the confluence of the River Medway and River Thames. This has been strategically significant for millennia. The ancient Celtic trackway which later became part of the Roman Watling Street, forded the River Medway here. A Roman settlement existed here from 43 AD with the Claudian invasion of Britain, and was known as Durobrivae, meaning 'The Stronghold by the Bridge'. The Battle of the Medway took place during that same year. Roman victory forced the British tribes to retreat towards the Thames.
Following the Roman departure of Britain in the 5th century, the Anglo-Saxons settled here around the early 7th century, and renamed it 'Hrofesceaster', from which the present name derives. In 604 AD Augustine, the first archbishop of Canterbury, sent Justus to found a cathedral and become the first Bishop of Rochester. Thus, Rochester is the second oldest bishopric in England after Canterbury. During the same year of 604 AD, in addition to Rochester's first cathedral, town walls were constructed, as well as The King's School, which is believed to be the second oldest continuously operating school in the world after its namesake, The King's School, Canterbury.
During the 9th and 10th centuries, Rochester endured multiple attacks from the Danes. Following the Norman Conquest of 1066, a castle was built at Rochester on the site of an earlier Saxon fort. Construction began in the 1080s - making it one of the earliest buildings in England to be constructed in stone. In 1127 King Henry I granted the castle to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who ordered the building of the great keep.
During the 1080s work began on constructing a new cathedral. In 1130 it was consecrated, with Henry I attending the ceremony. Directly opposite the cathedral, Rochester Castle endured multiple sieges through the years. One notable occasion was in 1215 when King John retook the castle from rebel barons, using the fat of forty pigs to burn down the southeast tower. The castle would eventually fall into ruin by the 17th century, although the keep and parts of the walls remain standing.
Adjacent to the castle and cathedral is Rochester High Street. This is home to a number of stunning genuine Tudor buildings. Eastgate House, for instance, was built in the 1590s, and today serves as a museum and wedding venue. Also along the same street are a number of buildings that inspired Charles Dickens, who grew up in Chatham from the age of five (as can be seen at the start of the walk, Chatham and Rochester form one continuous urban area). Two buildings feature in Dickens's final novel: The Mystery of Edwin Drood, namely Mr Sapsea's House and Mr Tope's (see the timestamps for reference). The story is set in Cloisterham, a thinly disguised fictional version of Rochester.
Since the Roman era, there has been a bridge across the River Medway linking Rochester on the east bank to west bank where the town of Strood stands today. The Roman stone bridge was replaced around 960 AD with a wooden bridge. During the late 14th century a new stone bridge was built. A Victorian cast iron bridge was built and opened to the public in 1856. This was followed by a first, then second, railway bridge soon after. This led to the opening of Rochester Station as part of the East Kent Railway in 1892. Today this provides direct access to London to the west and the Kent coast to the east.
In 1998 the local government districts of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham were merged to form the unitary authority of Medway. Due to an administrative oversight, it lost its city status in the process, a mistake that was apparently only discovered by the Rochester Society four years later when it noticed it had been omitted from the Lord Chancellor's list of UK cities.
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0:00 Gundulph Road
0:08 High Street
10:22 Mr Sapsea's House from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
10:41 High Street
10:52 Eastgate House (built 1590s)
11:06 High Street
14:00 Rochester Cathedral
14:07 High Street
14:53 Mr Tope's from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
15:00 High Street
16:13 30-32 High Street (built early 16th century)
16:20 High Street
16:33 Rochester Guildhall (built 1687)
16:50 A rare GREEN Victorian Penfold letterbox!
16:53 High Street
17:04 12-14 High Street (built early 16th century)
17:09 High Street
17:52 Esplanade
19:03 Rochester Castle
24:16 Epaul Lane
24:21 Rochester Cathedral
25:09 Boley Hill
25:25 Rochester Cathedral
25:45 Boley Hill
25:55 Rochester Castle
🚢USS Midway: The longest-serving aircraft carrier of the 20th century🇺🇸
Commissioned on September 10, 1945 — just 8 days after the end of World War II — the USS Midway is an aircraft carrier that served an impressive 47-year career in the United States Navy. She was the flagship of Carrier Division 1 (now “Carrier Strike Group 1”), and served in a number of peace-keeping missions including the Vietnam War and Operation Desert Storm.
Since 2004, the USS Midway has been operating as the largest naval ship museum in the world in San Diego, CA. If your travels ever bring you to San Diego, make sure you cruise down to the Embarcadero and check out the USS Midway Museum for yourself!
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The Final Cruise of the Paddle Steamer Medway Queen
Paddle Steamer Medway Queen was built at the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company in Troon, Scotland, in 1924 at a cost of £21,500 for service on the Medway and in the Thames Estuary. Trialled on the River Clyde, she was delivered to be part of the Queen Line fleet of the New Medway Steam Packet Company based at Rochester, Kent. She steamed the Thames on the routes from Strood and Chatham, to Sheerness, Herne Bay and Margate in Kent; and Clacton and Southend in Essex.
A bow rudder was later fitted, in 1936, to better enable the ship to manoeuvre in harbour and the boiler was replaced and converted to oil firing in 1938. The new boiler was constructed by Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Company in Newcastle and installed in Chatham Dockyard.
Requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a minesweeper, she was renumbered No N 48 (1939-1942) and later J 48 (1942-1947), serving for the duration of World War II in the 10th minesweeping flotilla, protecting the English Channel.
On Monday 3 June Vice Admiral Ramsey gave the order that all ships were to leave Dunkirk by 14.30 the following morning. This was the Medway Queen's seventh trip. She was at the mole in Dunkirk when a destroyer moored astern of her was driven forwards by an explosion and smashed her starboard paddle box, she sustained considerable damage. Medway Queen limped back to Dover with 400 French soldiers on board. By then, she had rescued 7,000 men.
In view of this remarkable achievement in rescuing so many Allied troops from France, she earned the title of The Heroine of Dunkirk. In 1942 she was converted to a mine sweeping training ship, and served out the war in this capacity.
Return to service
Rebuilt by Thorneycrofts of Southampton in 1946, she returned to civilian service with New Medway Steam Packet Company for the 1947 season. When Elizabeth II was crowned, PS Medway Queen attended the 1953 Coronation Review at Spithead.
She made her last sailing on 9th September 1963, and was scheduled to be scrapped in Belgium. The Belgian ship-breaker, upon discovering that the vessel he was expecting to break up was none other than The Heroine of Dunkirk, declined to continue (it is reported that he felt that no one should dare to destroy such a gallant and important little ship). The Daily Mail newspaper campaigned to save her.
Use as nightclub
Having been saved from scrapping, Medway Queen was eventually sold for use as a nightclub and marina clubhouse, and was moored at the Medway Queen Marina (now known as the Island Harbour Marina) on the Isle of Wight. The club opened in 1966. In 1970, a larger ship, PS Ryde, renamed as Ryde Queen, joined Medway Queen at the marina site, also operating as a nightclub. The two premises operated alongside one another for a period, until the Medway Queen was eventually closed and fell into disrepair.
Preservation
In 1978 the Medway Queen was bought by private owners with the aim of preserving her. She was moved out of the marina to the adjacent River Medina, but sank in the river when the hull sprang a leak. There she remained, in a state of increasing deterioration, until in 1984 she was salvaged, moved to Cowes at the river’s mouth, and thence towed back to Chatham in Kent on a salvage barge. In 1985 the Medway Queen Preservation Society formed, with the intention of preserving the historic ship.
In 1987 she was moved to Damhead Creek, Kingsnorth on the Hoo Peninsula, but the trust lacked funds to bring her back to service, and struggled to preserve the structure. After a series of near disasters, in 2006 the National Lottery Heritage Memorial Fund agreed a £1.8 million funding package to restore her structure, subject to the society raising £225,000. Having completed the fund raising, the trust was disappointed that neither the insurance company nor marine engineers were confident that her hull was seaworthy and able of sustaining lifting on to a pontoon.
In October 2006, the Trust agreed to the deconstruction of the hull, and salvageable pieces were moved to Gillingham Pier (and a National Lottery funded warehouse) in Chatham Dockyard, in preparation of the hull being professionally restored to seaworthy condition.
Rebuilding the hull
In October 2008, the society signed a contract with David Abels Shipbuilders to restore the hull at the Albion Dry Dock in Bristol. This to be done using plate riveting by a team of 10, and was envisaged to take two years. Work began in April 2009 and was due to be completed in the summer of 2010. On 27 July 2013 the ship was rededicated.
At around 3pm on Friday 15 November 2013 the Medway Queen departed Avonmouth towed by the tug Christine. Benefiting from the good weather the tow continued throughout the weekend with her arriving back on her home territory on the River Medway 2 days later. She is now moored at Gillingham Pier.
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Ledge Falls, East Branch Penobscot River, Medway, Maine
Here is a quick video of Ledge Falls on the East Branch Penobscot River. It's easy to get here and looks like a great place for swimming and fishing (downstream!).
Don't ask what my kids are doing in the video...I think the long drive up to Medway got to them!