Geology of Kent the northern slopes of the Downs where they are known as brickearths. Landslips are known along the north coast of the Isle of Sheppey, the coast near Reculver and either side of Folkestone and indeed the former coastline west of Folkestone overlooking Romney Marsh. Geology of Kent The geology of Kent in southeast England largely consists of a succession of northward dipping late Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentary rocks overlain by a suite of unconsolidated deposits of more recent origin. Kent is the south-easternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea,
Kingdom of Kent and Cambridgeshire. Archaeological evidence suggests that at some point in the sixth century, East Kent annexed West Kent. To the south lay the Weald, a dense forest of no value to the Kentish elite, leaving the fertile area west of the kingdom attractive for conquest, particularly the Darenth Valley and the dip slopes of the North Downs to the west of the Medway. Firmly in the control of an elite class, Kent is the first Anglo-Saxon kingdom to appear in the historical record in 597. The monk Bede refers to Kent as ruled by Æthelberht at this period, making him