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  • proper noun A coastal town in Kent, England

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Examples

  • In the church of St Peter on the East Cliff in Folkestone, Kent, this morning, the sermon was of battles.

    Church of England parish sings battle hymns as it plans move to Rome Stephen Bates 2010

  • • Finsbury could offer its services to Father Stephen Bould, whose parish in Folkestone, Kent, may be the first to defect wholesale from the Church of England to Rome because of the former's embrace of female bishops.

    Diary Hugh Muir 2010

  • I understand from friends in Folkestone that Michael Howard will announce this evening at a meeting in his constituency that he is to stand down from the House of Commons at the next election.

    Michael Howard to Step Down 2006

  • Autogena's project aims to build two new mirrors - one in Folkestone, the other 25 miles away at Wimereux in France - for listening to the sea and, ideally, communicating between the two stations by voice, as these modern mirrors span a canal.

    Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004

  • Autogena's project aims to build two new mirrors - one in Folkestone, the other 25 miles away at Wimereux in France - for listening to the sea and, ideally, communicating between the two stations by voice, as these modern mirrors span a canal.

    Listening Ears Ray Girvan 2004

  • We stopped in Folkestone until Tuesday, and then Richard and I got into a sleigh, which took us over the snow from the hotel to the boat.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • I then incorrectly suggested he was the Lib Dem candidate in Folkestone.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Stephen Tall 2007

  • I then incorrectly suggested he was the Lib Dem candidate in Folkestone.

    Detritus: 18 Doughty Street, liberal blogging and David Cameron Stephen Tall 2007

  • Some kids in this area even get offered places at Sittingbourne or Folkestone, which is 50 miles away.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Graeme Paton 2012

  • Some kids in this area even get offered places at Sittingbourne or Folkestone, which is 50 miles away.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Graeme Paton 2012

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