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Folkestone

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

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

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

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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Folkestone

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

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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