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Shoreham Cross

Shoreham, Kent

A chalk cross remembering the village's First World War dead.

After the First World War, the villagers of Shoreham cut a large cross into the hillside opposite the village as a memorial to their men who had died. A stone at the bottom reads: 'Remember the men of Shoreham who gave their lives for their country.'

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When
Cut 1920
Where
51.3300, 0.1800
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Seen from the village and the Darent Valley Path.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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