3-053-722 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Isle of Thanet [in Kent]: cliffs near Margate, 1873. 'Thanet was indeed an island; and its ancient name of Tanet was derived from the word tent, a beacon-fire, because it was the custom of the Britons to light such a beacon-fire, in case of warlike peril, on the cliff of the North Foreland. It is eleven miles in length, from east to west, and from seven to nine miles broad, from north to south'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.