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HERNE BAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 372 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERNE
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  , a seaside resort in the St Augustine's
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parliamentary division of Kent, England, 8 m . N. by E. of Canterbury, on the South Eastern and Chatham railway . Pop. of urban
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district (1901) 6726 . It has grown up since 183o, above a sandy and pebbly
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shore, and has a pier ; m. long . The church of St Martin in the
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village of Herne, 14 m. inland, Ridley (1538), afterwards Bishop of
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London . At Reculver, 3 M . E. of Herne
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Bay on the coast, is the site of the
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Roman station of Regulbium . The fortress occupied about 8 acres, but only traces of the south and east walls remain . In Saxon times it was converted into a palace by King Ethelbert, and in 669 a monastery was founded here by Egbert . The Early
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English church was taken down early in the 19th century owing to the encroachment of the sea, and parts of its fabric were preserved in the
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modern church of St Mary . But its twin towers, known as the Sisters from the tradition that they were built by a
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Benedictine abbess of
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Faversham in memory of her
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sister, were preserved by Trinity House as a conspicuous landmark .

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