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- proper noun A small
island of the north coast ofKent in theThames estuary
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In 832, the Danes, having made two descents before, landed a third time with great force at the Isle of Sheppey, in Kent; and in some few months afterwards at Charmouth, in Dorsetshire, with 18,000 men.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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I will simply remind him of the vast numbers of fossil fruits, and other remains of palms, in the London clay of the Isle of Sheppey.
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In the Isle of Sheppey there is not a single person who is drawing the unemployment donation.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919 Various
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These three were Brooklands, Hendon, and the Isle of Sheppey, and of the three Brooklands was chief.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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"For the first time for forty years," _The Daily Mail_ tells _us_, "a wild swan, supposed to have flown across the North Sea, has been shot in the marshes of the Isle of Sheppey."
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 Various 1898
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At the close of 1909, Mr. Frank McClean, who devoted his whole fortune to the cause of aviation, purchased a large tract of ground, level and free from ditches, in the middle of the Isle of Sheppey, close to the railway station at Eastchurch, and gave the use of it free to the
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson has promoted the idea of such a development - which would be built on floating islands off the coast of the Isle of Sheppey - as an alternative to the Government's controversial third runway at Heathrow.
Kos RSS Feed 2010
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Rifleman Holkham, who lived in the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, and two other soldiers, all killed in separate incidents in Helmand Province, were repatriated to RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
Home 2010
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A lifeboat was called to rescue him after his engine wound down off the Elmley Marshes on the Isle of Sheppey, which he had been sailing round all day and night.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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A ceremony and fly-past on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent will mark 100 years of aviation in the Royal Navy.
The Blog of Kev 2009
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