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Folkestone
Folkestone , town (1991 pop. 42,949), Kent, SE England. The town is a summer resort with an active port. The Leas promenade runs along the chalk cliffs overlooking the English Channel. Folkestone is one of the main passenger ports used by the English Channel ferry operators; Boulogne, France is 26 mi (42 km) away. It is also Great Britain's terminus of the Channel Tunnel . There are vestiges of Roman occupation in the vicinity, and a 13th-century parish church has been restored. Folkestone was a prosperous port in the Middle Ages and early modern period. |
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"Folkestone." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Folkestone." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Folkesto.html "Folkestone." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Folkesto.html |
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Folkestone
Folkestone, England/UK Folcanstan, Fulchestan ‘Folca's Stone’ from an Old English personal name and stān. The ‘stone’ here means a meeting place within the hundred (a territorial subdivision).
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JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Folkestone." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Folkestone." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Folkestone.html JOHN EVERETT-HEATH. "Folkestone." Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. 2005. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O209-Folkestone.html |
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Folkestone
Folkestone Kent. Folcanstan c.697, Fulchestan 1086 (DB). Probably ‘stone (marking a hundred meeting-place) of a man called *Folca’. OE pers. name + stān.
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A. D. MILLS. "Folkestone." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Folkestone." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Folkestone.html A. D. MILLS. "Folkestone." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-Folkestone.html |
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Folkestone
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•Shackleton • Appleton
•Hampton, Northampton, Rockhampton, Southampton, Wolverhampton
•Canton, lantern, Scranton
•Langton, plankton
•Clapton
•Aston, pastern
•Gladstone
•Caxton, Paxton
•capstan • Ashton • phytoplankton
•Akhenaten, Akhetaten, Aten, Barton, carton, Dumbarton, hearten, Parton, smarten, spartan, tartan
•Grafton
•Carlton, Charlton
•Charleston • kindergarten
•Aldermaston
•Breton, jetton, Sowetan, threaten, Tibetan
•lectern
•Elton, melton, Skelton
•Denton, Fenton, Kenton, Lenten, Trenton
•Repton
•Avestan, Midwestern, northwestern, Preston, southwestern, western
•sexton
•Clayton, Deighton, Leighton, Paton, phaeton, Satan, straighten, straiten
•Paignton • Maidstone
•beaten, Beaton, Beeton, Cretan, Keaton, neaten, Nuneaton, overeaten, sweeten, uneaten, wheaten
•chieftain
•eastern, northeastern, southeastern
•browbeaten • weatherbeaten
•bitten, bittern, Britain, Briton, Britten, handwritten, hardbitten, kitten, Lytton, mitten, smitten, underwritten, witan, written
•Clifton
•Milton, Shilton, Stilton, Wilton
•Middleton • singleton • simpleton
•Clinton, Linton, Minton, Quinton, Winton
•cistern, Liston, piston, Wystan
•brimstone • Winston • Kingston
•Addington • Eddington
•Workington
•Arlington, Darlington
•skeleton
•Ellington, wellington
•exoskeleton
•cosmopolitan, megalopolitan, metropolitan, Neapolitan
•Burlington • Hamilton • badminton
•lamington • Germiston • Penistone
•Bonington • Orpington • Samaritan
•Carrington, Harrington
•sacristan • Festschriften
•Sherrington • typewritten
•Warrington • puritan • Fredericton
•Lexington • Occitan • Washington
•Whittington • Huntington
•Galveston • Livingstone
•Kensington
•Blyton, brighten, Brighton, Crichton, enlighten, frighten, heighten, lighten, righten, tighten, titan, triton, whiten
•begotten, cotton, forgotten, ill-gotten, misbegotten, rotten
•Compton, Crompton
•wanton • Longton
•Boston, postern
•boughten, chorten, foreshorten, Laughton, Morton, Naughton, Orton, quartan, quartern, shorten, tauten, torten, Wharton
•Alton, Dalton, Galton, saltern, Walton
•Taunton • Allston • Launceston
•croton, Dakotan, Minnesotan, oaten, verboten
•Bolton, Doulton, molten
•Folkestone • Royston
•Luton, newton, rambutan, Teuton
•Houston • Fulton
•button, glutton, Hutton, mutton
•sultan
•doubleton, subaltern
•fronton • Augustan • Dunstan
•tungsten • quieten • Pinkerton
•charlatan • Wollaston • Palmerston
•Edmonton • automaton • Sheraton
•Geraldton • Chatterton • Betterton
•Chesterton • Athelstan
•burton, curtain, uncertain
•Hurston
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"Folkestone." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 13 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Folkestone." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 13, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Folkestone.html "Folkestone." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 13, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Folkestone.html |
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