Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Wives Lees like this:

OLD-WIVES-LEES, or Oldwoods-Lees, a place in the N E of Kent; 4¼ miles S W of Canterbury. Anannual race, on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham.

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Travel writing

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