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Faversham and the Cinque Ports
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The Cinque Port tradition which inspires the civic pride of the Portsmen of this day has been built upon their former naval importance. We are accustomed to think of this group of towns, Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich, ringing the south-eastern coast of England, as sentinels of the channel, “the Gates,” as they liked to describe themselves, “that open and shutt to the perill or safety of this Kingdome.”
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