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10 unusual facts about Hythe


Buxheim Charterhouse

In 1960 the sisters relocated to their other convent at Hythe, Kent, taking the carvings with them.

George Willes

Born at Hythe, Hampshire in 1823, Willes was the son of Captain George Willes, RN, by his wife Anne Lacon, daughter of Sir Edmund Lacon, Baronet.

Griffon 2000TD hovercraft

Griffon Hoverwork (GHL) of Hythe, England has designed, manufactured and operated hovercraft for over 40 years.

HMS Diligence

HMS Diligence was a base at Hythe, Hampshire for the minesweepers and motor torpedo boats of the reserve fleet, which opened in 1953.

Julian Lewis

As MP for New Forest East, he successfully opposed the development of a large container port at Dibden Bay, between Marchwood and Hythe, and waged other high-profile local campaigns.

Roy Halliday

There followed several postings to naval units: commander of 813 Naval Air Squadron on HMS Eagle; commander of HMS Diligence (a base at Hythe, Hampshire); senior officer of the 104th Minesweeping Squadron in the Far East.

Supermarine Air Yacht

The Air Yacht made its first flight in February 1930 at Hythe, England.

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

During this period of inactivity and ill-health at the depot in Hythe, Harris recounts many stories told to him by his comrades and contemporaries of their service on the Peninsula, including tales of the Siege of Badajoz and the Siege of San Sebastian.

Wiebo Ludwig

Wiebo Ludwig (19 December 1941 – 9 April 2012) was the leader of a Christian community named Trickle Creek, just outside Hythe, Alberta, Canada.

In 1985, he led a group of his supporters to settle in a remote farming community near Hythe, Alberta, approximately 500 km northwest of the provincial capital of Edmonton.


Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

A railway in the Colne Valley was first proposed in 1846 when the "Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway Company" was incorporated to build a line from Marks Tey on the Eastern Counties Railway to Sudbury, with branches to Halstead and from Colchester to Hythe.

Hardley

Hardley, Hampshire, a suburb of the village of Hythe near Southampton in Hampshire, England

Hythe Bridge

This used to continue south of Hythe Bridge Street to a basin with wharves that in 1951 was filled in and is now a car park and part of Nuffield College.

Immediately to the northeast of Hythe Bridge is the current southern end of the Oxford Canal.

Hythe Pier, Railway and Ferry

A ferry has operated from Hythe to Southampton since the Middle Ages, and it is marked on a map by Christopher Saxton of 1575.

James Shaw Kennedy

He was commissioned into the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Light Infantry in 1805 joining the regiment at Hythe, Kent where it was training under Sir John Moore.

John Ramsden

Sir John William Ramsden, 5th Baronet (1831–1914), MP for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth, Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857–1858

Park Farm, Kent

Park Farm and its surrounding areas has easy access to the coast being less than 10 miles or 20 mins to the beaches and seaside towns of Dymchurch, St Mary's Bay, Hythe, Greatstone or Camber Sands.

Ramsden baronets

The fifth Baronet sat as Liberal Member of Parliament for Taunton, Hythe, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Monmouth and served as Under-Secretary of State for War from 1857 to 1858.

Riding officer

When Daniel Defoe rode through Hythe towards Rye in the 1720s he saw riding officers and dragoons searching the marshes for wool smugglers '... as if they were huntsmen beating up their game ...'

Shepway

The Royal Military Canal crosses the northern edge of the Romney Marsh; and the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway runs out to Dungeness from Hythe.

Simon Brint

Brint was born in High Ham, Somerset, moving to Hythe in Kent with his family when he was 16, and developing an interest in eccentric musical projects.

Sunshine Coast Line

On Mon-Fri, trains to and from Clacton on sea also call at Colchester Town, Hythe, Great Bentley and Alresford and Weeley during rush hour.

William Elliot

William Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto (1814–1891), British Whig politician, MP for Hythe, Greenock, and for Clackmannan and Kinross