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A new haven at Sandwich for the honour, advantage, and safety of England : faithfully discovered in a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Clarenden Lord High Chancellour of England. By J. S.
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Year: 1663 Publisher: London : printed for N. Brooks at the Angel in Cornhil,

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Sandwich : the "completest medieval town in England" : a study of the town and port from its origins to 1600
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ISBN: 9781842174005 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford : Oxbow books,

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Walks through historic Sandwich
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ISBN: 1842176242 1842176269 9781842176269 9781842174562 9781842176245 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford, U.K. Oxbow Books

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This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England. As a Cinque port, it served successive monarchs as a military and naval base for their overseas expeditions and its trading activities extended far and wide. The town still displays signs of those prosperous centuries: an unchanged street plan, a virtually intact circuit of town walls and an exceptionally large number of well-preserved medieval houses. Two walks, clearly described with maps and copious photos, unlock the features of this fascinating town. The f


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Revolt and emigration : refugees from the Westkwartier in Sandwich in the 16th century
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Year: 1988 Publisher: Dikkebus Westhoek

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Sandwich - the 'completest medieval town in england' : a study of the town and port from its origins to 1600
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ISBN: 1842177311 1299485227 1842174002 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Oakville, Canada : Oxbow Books,

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To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval fabric of the town has been preserved to a remarkable extent, but historians and archaeologists have never agreed on quite where the first settlement was located. Nor has there been close study of what the surviving medieval buildings can tell us

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