3-053-721 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Isle of Thanet [in Kent]: Daundelion, 1873. 'That corner of Kent which terminates with the North Foreland, the most easterly point of England in these southern counties, was once as truly an island as Anglesey or the Isle of Wight. It was completely divided from the English mainland by a navigable aim of the sea, from Richborough, near Sandwich, to Reculvers, near Herne Bay...There is Daundelyon, the ancient mansion of a knightly family, French or Flemish, called Dent de Lion from some feat of warlike prowess, who lived here in the reign of Henry IV. It passed from the Daundelyons to the Petits of Shalmesford, whose descendants, in the last century, sold it to Henry Fox, Lord Holland; and his son, Charles James Fox, conveyed it to the Powells. All now remaining of the old building is an embattled gateway, with loopholes for shooting, constructed of brick and flint in alternate rows; above this are the Daundelyon arms, three lions rampant between two bars, and on the left is a demi-lion with a label in his mouth bearing the family name. This relic of antiquity is a mile and a half from Margate'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.