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One of the most populous cities in the country, with over 4,500 communicants in 1676, Canterbury was the most important city in Kent, not least as the seat of the country’s senior archbishop.

The easternmost of the cinque ports, Sandwich, which incorporated Deal, Fordwich, Ramsgate and Brightlingsea, was located inland of the south Kent coast, on the banks of the River Stour and on the southern side of the Wantsum Channel which traditionally divided mainland Kent from the Isle of Thanet. D. Gardiner, Historic Haven (1954), 3. Like many ports in the region, its fortunes were threatened by encroaching sandbanks, but it fared worse than most.