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River Eden, Kent, the Glossary

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Back-formation

In etymology, back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via inflection, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed affixes from a lexical item, in a way that expands the number of lexemes associated with the corresponding root word.

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Board of Ordnance

The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.

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Bough Beech

Over Bough Beech Reservoir Bough Beech is a hamlet in the county of Kent, England, and is south of the Bough Beech Reservoir. River Eden, Kent and Bough Beech are Sevenoaks District.

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Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

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Cast iron

Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.

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Charcoal

Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents.

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Charlwood

Charlwood is a village and civil parish in the Mole Valley district of Surrey, England.

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Cheam

Cheam is a suburb of London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Clacket Lane services

Clacket Lane services is a motorway service station on the M25 motorway midway between junctions 5 and 6, in Surrey, United Kingdom, adjacent to the parish borders between Limpsfield, Surrey and Westerham, Kent, a small village and a town respectively. River Eden, Kent and Clacket Lane services are Tandridge.

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Crowhurst, Surrey

Crowhurst is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England. River Eden, Kent and Crowhurst, Surrey are Tandridge.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Edenbridge, Kent

Edenbridge is a town and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. River Eden, Kent and Edenbridge, Kent are Sevenoaks District.

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Elizabethan era

The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603).

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Environmental Change Network

The Environmental Change Network (ECN) was established in 1992 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to monitor long-term environmental change and its effects on ecosystems at a series of sites throughout Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Fiberglass

Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.

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Firle

Firle (Sussex dialect: Furrel) is a village and civil parish in the Lewes district of East Sussex, England.

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Fulling

Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelled waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate (lanolin) oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it shrink by friction and pressure.

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Godstone

Godstone is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. River Eden, Kent and Godstone are Tandridge.

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Greensand Ridge

The Greensand Ridge, also known as the Wealden Greensand, is an extensive, prominent, often wooded, mixed greensand/sandstone escarpment in south-east England.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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Gunpowder

Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.

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Haxted Watermill

Haxted Watermill is a much-restored Grade II listed watermill in Surrey, England, close to the border with Kent, and is powered by the River Eden.

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Heathfield, East Sussex

Heathfield is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Heathfield and Waldron, in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Hever Castle

Hever Castle is located in the village of Hever, Kent, near Edenbridge, south-east of London, England.

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Hever, Kent

Hever village is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. River Eden, Kent and Hever, Kent are Sevenoaks District.

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Horne, Surrey

Horne is a rural village and civil parish in the District of Tandridge in Surrey, England. River Eden, Kent and Horne, Surrey are Tandridge.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn (31 October 162027 February 1706) was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, who is now best known as a diarist.

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John Rocque

John Rocque (originally Jean; –1762) was a French-born British surveyor and cartographer, best known for his detailed map of London published in 1746.

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Kent

Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.

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Lewes

Lewes is the county town of East Sussex, England.

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Limpsfield

Limpsfield is a village and civil parish in Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs close to Oxted railway station and the A25.

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Lingfield Park Racecourse

Lingfield Park Racecourse (commonly referred to as Lingfield) is a horse racing course at Lingfield in Surrey, United Kingdom.

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Lingfield, Surrey

Lingfield is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, approximately south of London. River Eden, Kent and Lingfield, Surrey are Tandridge.

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Marden, Kent

Marden is a village and civil parish in the Kent borough of Maidstone approximately south of Maidstone.

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Medway watermills

The Medway and its tributaries and sub-tributaries have been used for over 1,150 years as a source of power. River Eden, Kent and Medway watermills are rivers of Kent and watermills in Kent.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, used for triturating, crushing or, more specifically, grinding wheat or other grains.

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Museum

A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.

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Norman Conquest

The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Norman, French, Flemish, and Breton troops, all led by the Duke of Normandy, later styled William the Conqueror.

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North Downs

The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills in south east England that stretch from Farnham in Surrey to the White Cliffs of Dover in Kent.

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Old English

Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Ordnance Survey National Grid

The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isles of Scilly.

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Oxted

Oxted is a town and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, at the foot of the North Downs, south-east of Croydon, west of Sevenoaks, and north of East Grinstead. River Eden, Kent and Oxted are Tandridge.

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Penshurst

Penshurst is a historic village and civil parish located in a valley upon the northern slopes of the Kentish Weald, at the confluence of the River Medway and the River Eden, within the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. River Eden, Kent and Penshurst are Sevenoaks District.

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Post mill

The post mill is the earliest type of European windmill.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough

Reynold Cobham, 1st Baron Cobham of Sterborough, KG (c.1295–1361) was a medieval English knight and diplomat.

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River Medway

The River Medway is a river in South East England. River Eden, Kent and river Medway are Medway catchment and rivers of Kent.

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Robert Thurston Hopkins

Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.

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Roller mill

Roller mills are mills that use cylindrical rollers, either in opposing pairs or against flat plates, to crush or grind various materials, such as grain, ore, gravel, plastic, and others.

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Royal Tunbridge Wells

Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London.

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SES Water

Sutton and East Surrey Water plc, trading as SES Water, is the UK water supply company to its designated area of east Surrey, West Sussex, west Kent and south London serving in excess of 282,000 homes and businesses and a population of approximately 675,000 people.

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Smelting

Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product.

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Soke (legal)

The term soke (in Old English: soc, connected ultimately with secan, "to seek"), at the time of the Norman conquest of England, generally denoted "jurisdiction", but its vague usage makes it lack a single, precise definition.

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Southern Water

Southern Water is the private utility company responsible for the public wastewater collection and treatment in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent, and for the public water supply and distribution in approximately half of this area.

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Surrey

Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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Titsey

Titsey is a rural village and a civil parish on the North Downs almost wholly within the M25 London Orbital Motorway in the Tandridge District of Surrey, England. River Eden, Kent and Titsey are Tandridge.

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Tributary

A tributary, or an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (main stem or "parent"), river, or a lake.

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Trout

Trout (trout) is a generic common name for numerous species of carnivorous freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of which are members of the subfamily Salmoninae in the family Salmonidae.

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Turners Hill

Turners Hill is a village and civil parish in the Mid Sussex District of West Sussex, England.

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Water wheel

A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill.

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Watermill

A watermill or water mill is a mill that uses hydropower.

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Weald Clay

Weald Clay or the Weald Clay Formation is a Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rock unit underlying areas of South East England, between the North and South Downs, in an area called the Weald Basin.

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Wealden iron industry

The Wealden iron industry was located in the Weald of south-eastern England.

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Windmill

A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called sails or blades, by tradition specifically to mill grain (gristmills), but in some parts of the English-speaking world, the term has also been extended to encompass windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications.

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