This year's annual Kent Place Names Conference will be held at Kent History and Library Centre on the 19th October from 10.00am to 4.pm in conjunction with Kent Archives Service.

Programme

• 10.00am Registration tea/coffee

• 10.25am Chair to welcome

• 10.30am – 11.00am Paul Cullen – Place-names of the Maidstone area

• 11.00am – 11.30am John Death -Nettles,Gaps and Stumps: An Anglo-Saxon Estate in Meopham

• 11.30am – 11.50am James Lloyd – The Devil in Kentish Countryside

• 11.20am – 12.10pm Questions

• 12.15pm – 13.15pm Lunch

• 13.15pm – 13.45pm Abigail Lloyd – GIS, bergs and duns: A new approach to Kentish Hill-names in the national context

• 13.45pm – 14.15pm Linda Taylor – Philip Symonson’s 1596 map: A new Description of Kent

• 14.15pm – 14.35pm Questions

• 14.35pm – 15.05pm Nigel Price – Huguenot surnames in the Canterbury area

• 15.05pm – 15.35pm Paul Cullen – Kentish surnames; some patterns and puzzles

• 15.35pm – 15.55pm Question and CLOSE

Refreshments

Tea & Coffee will be provided on arrival

Lunch is not provided at this event so please make your own arrangements.

Location

Kent History and Library Centre, James Whatman Way, Maidstone, ME18 1LQ