Small Hythe
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Small Hythe (or Smallhythe) is a hamlet near Tenterden in Kent, England. The population is included in Tenterden.
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Small Hythe | |
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St John's Church | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Tenterden |
Postcode district | TN30 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
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51.0414°N 0.6994°E / 51.0414; 0.6994 |
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It stood on a branch of the Rother estuary and was a busy shipbuilding port in the 15th century, before the silting up and draining of the Romney Marshes. Small Hythe's quays and warehouses were destroyed in a fire in 1514 and were never rebuilt.[1]