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One of the best-known of Barham’s ‘Ingoldsby Legends’ (1840) reaches its dramatic climax in the hamlet of Acol, in the precipitous chalk pit whose present use as the ‘Smuggler’s Leap Residential Caravan Site’ reflects the legend’s title...

The dedication in the front of Baroness Orczy’s romantic novel, ‘the Nest of the Sparrowhawk’(1913), reads ‘In remembrance of the happy days I spent in Thanet…’...