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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 is a [[county]] that covers the south east tip of [[England]], and is the closest part of England to mainland [[Europe]] (20 miles/33 km across the Strait of Dover).<ref>The Strait of Dover [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_topic.php3?topic=oceans&img_id=17367 Earth Observatory/NASA] Accessed July 16 2007</ref> Towns and cities include [[Maidstone]], [[Margate]], and [[Canterbury]]. Canterbury is the headquarters of the [[Church of England]]. On April 28, 2007 east Kent was struck by a magnitude 4.3 earth tremor.

Kent is a [[county]] that covers the south east tip of [[England]], and is the closest part of England to mainland [[Europe]] (20 miles/33 km across the Strait of Dover).<ref>The Strait of Dover [http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_topic.php3?topic=oceans&img_id=17367 Earth Observatory/NASA] Accessed July 16 2007</ref> Towns and cities include the [[Medway Towns]], [[Maidstone]], [[Margate]], [[Canterbury]], and the passenger ferry ports [[Dover]] and [[Folkestone]]. In addition, the [[Channel Tunnel]] runs from Cheriton, near Folkestone, to Sangatte, near [[Calias]] in northern [[France]]. Canterbury is the headquarters of the [[Church of England]].

 

Kent is known as 'the garden of England'.

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[[Category:United Kingdom Counties]]

[[Category:United Kingdom Counties]]