Royal Military Canal
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The Royal Military Canal is a canal running for 28 miles between Seabrook near Folkestone and Cliff End near Hastings, following the old cliff line bordering Romney Marsh, which was constructed as par
The canal at Hythe
A modern sculpture of soldiers of Royal Staff Corps at Hythe, commemorating the construction of the canal
One of the numerous surviving pillboxes built on the Napoleonic era rampart of the canal in 1940.
A view over the canal near Rye
Hythe, Kent
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Hythe is an old market town and civil parish on the edge of Romney Marsh in Kent, England. Hythe is an Old English word meaning haven or landing place.
Royal Military Canal
…appointed consultant engineer, and Pitt personally persuaded the local landowners to agree to the new canal. Construction was started at Seabrook, near Hythe in Kent on 30 October 1804. By May 1805 only six miles of the canal had been completed; William Pitt intervened and the contractors and Rennie were…
Hythe Town Hall
View of Hythe ca. 1830, showing the military canal and four Martello towers near the shoreline. Source: Ireland's History of Kent.
Saltwood Castle, Kent