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[[Image:Kent Arms.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Arms of Kent County Council, granted 17 October 1933]]

[[Image:Kent Arms.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Arms of Kent County Council, granted 17 October 1933]]

'''Kent''' (derivation from ancient [[Celt]]ic is either ''“coastal district”'' or ''“land of armies”'' - the [[Roman]]s called it ''Cantia''.) is a [[county]] in the extreme south-east of[[England]].  It is bounded on the north by the [[River Thames|Thames Estuary]], to the east and south by the [[English Channel]] to the west and north-west by [[Surrey]], East [[Sussex]] and [[London]].

'''Kent''' (derivation from ancient [[Celt]]ic is either ''“coastal district”'' or ''“land of armies”'' - the [[Roman]]s called it ''Cantia''.) is a [[county]] in the extreme south-east of [[England]].  It is bounded to the north by the [[River Thames]] and its estuary, across which lies Essex, to the south-east by the [[English Channel]], which forms the United Kingdom's maritime border with [[France]], to the south-west by [[Sussex]] and to the west by [[Surrey]], with a short border with [[Middlesex]] along the Thames to the north-east.

   

   

It is the closest part of England to the [[Europe]]an mainland and, therefore, has  been  the most favoured point of arrival for visitors and invaders alike from before history. [[Julius Caesar]] landed there in 55 BC as did the Germanic invader/settlers, the [[Jutes]], Tradition has it that two Jutish brothers, Hengist and Horsa, settled there and founded the [[Kingdom]] of Kent with its capital at [[Canterbury]] in the 5th century AD. History is more complicated than tradition with evidence of Romano-British revival, traces of lingering Christianity and the survival in parts of Roman administrative divisions among the detritus of Germanic invaders and signs that the land was not always united during this shadowy era.

It is the closest part of England to the [[Europe]]an mainland and, therefore, has  been  the most favoured point of arrival for visitors and invaders alike from before history. [[Julius Caesar]] landed there in 55 BC as did the Germanic invader/settlers, the [[Jutes]], Tradition has it that two Jutish brothers, Hengist and Horsa, settled there and founded the [[Kingdom]] of Kent with its capital at [[Canterbury]] in the 5th century AD. History is more complicated than tradition with evidence of Romano-British revival, traces of lingering Christianity and the survival in parts of Roman administrative divisions among the detritus of Germanic invaders and signs that the land was not always united during this shadowy era.