Harrison was a descendant of Robert Carter I, Benjamin Harrison IV, William Randolph, and Isham Randolph of Dungeness.

Believing that the war was all but over, the English divided their forces and in December were routed by the fleet of Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness in the English Channel.

Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.

Historically, much of the area was an open oak-studded prairie supported by somewhat excessively drained gravelly sandy loam soil, though agriculture and development of the Dungeness valley have changed this ecosystem.

Howey was not happy with just from New Romney to Hythe and he extended from New Romney to Dungeness.

An ambitious construction programme of five twin reactor stations, Dungeness B, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B, Hartlepool and Heysham was quickly rolled out, and export orders were eagerly anticipated.

The lead station, Dungeness B was ordered in 1965 with a target completion date of 1970.

He was also responsible for the partially completed Watkin's Tower and an abortive attempt in the 1880s to create a new south-coast resort and deep-water port at Dungeness in Kent.

When it became clear that Napoleon was planning an invasion of England, Moore was put in charge of the defence of the coast from Dover to Dungeness.

The victory meant that the English control over the English Channel, regained by the Battle of Portland in March after it had been lost in the Battle of Dungeness, was now extended to the North Sea.

The one-time branch to New Romney from Appledore ( its small offshoot to Dungeness closed in 1937 ) was closed to passenger traffic in 1967.

It was possible to travel directly from Dungeness to London, and the 2 h journey time was quicker than by road and rail today.

It was formed by members of S ' Klallam communities along the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca in 1874 when, faced with the threat of forced relocation by white settlers, a group purchased a tract of and established a community near Dungeness named " Jamestown " in honor of village leader James Balch.

Isham Randolph of Dungeness, one of Thomas Jefferson's grandfathers and son of William Randolph, was married in St. Paul's church.

Another of the four was caught and it was discovered he had hidden radio equipment in a tree not far from the Lydd to Dungeness road.

A pumping station was built at Lydd, linking Dungeness with a Petroleum pipeline from Walton-on-Thames.

Isham Randolph of Dungeness was the grandfather of both Randolph Jefferson and Ann Jefferson Lewis.

Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station, that was connected to the National Grid in 1965 and has reached the end of its life.

Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed, the design being based on the much smaller Windscale AGR prototype ; the WAGR.

On 15 April 2009 Dungeness was included in a list of 11 potential sites for new nuclear power stations, at the request of EDF Energy, which owns and operates Dungeness B.

The Dungeness B restraint couplings-mechanical linkages that held the graphite core in place whilst allowing it to expand and contract in response to temperature changes-were made of mild steel and could be subject to the same corrosion.

It is to be reintroduced at Dungeness.

The Dungeness area will potentially be affected by plans to lengthen the runway of London Ashford Airport to accommodate large passenger jets.

Dungeness crabs can typically be purchased either live or cooked.

He was in failing health and was returning from the West Indies when he asked to be taken to his old friend's estate of Dungeness.

Dungeness is the headland of a shingle beach in Kent, England, which must be rounded to approach the Thames Estuary.

The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.

The CEGB conducted a detailed economic appraisal of the competing designs and concluded that the AGR proposed for Dungeness B would generate the cheapest electricity, cheaper than any of the rival designs and the best coal-fired stations.

Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station.

The two fleets met for the first time in a major battle at the Battle of Dungeness, November 1652.

As a migrant it leaves its breeding areas and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes of the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, northern Germany and the Low Countries, with small number reaching Great Britain ( for example, at Dungeness ), mostly at regular sites.

She walked across Britain from Dungeness in Kent to Conway in Wales for the series Coast to Coast in 1998.

Fairey Engineering Ltd also made Nuclear Reactor cores and fuelling machines for Dungeness B and Trawsfynydd.

Destinations served include the UK nuclear power stations at Heysham, Valley ( for Wylfa ), Bridgwater ( for Hinkley Point ), Berkeley ( for Oldbury ), Hunterston, Torness, Seaton-on-Tees, Dungeness and Sizewell.

From 1961 to 1984, Dungeness power station also housed the mercury arc valves of the static inverter plant converting AC into DC for transmission on HVDC Cross-Channel, the high-voltage direct current power cable carrying electric power across the English Channel to France.

Dungeness appears on the covers of albums as diverse as So much for the city by The Thrills and Aled by Aled Jones.

In the 2010 film Robin Hood, Dungeness is the landing point for King Phillip of France's siege on England, and the subsequent battle at the climax of the film.

* dungeness-nnr. co. uk-Official site for Dungeness National Nature Reserve

The river was named for Dungeness Spit.

Morally broken, he remained ill at home for many months, while Tromp replaced him for the Battle of Dungeness and the Battle of Portland.

* BCU South-responsible for nuclear sites in the south of England ; Culham, Dungeness, Harwell, Hinkley Point, Oldbury, Sizewell

Carnegie offered to buy Dungeness on August 25, 1880, for $ 25, 000 but his offer was rejected.

The cornerstone for the new Dungeness was laid on February 26, 1884, and the $ 285, 000, mansion ( fully furnished ) completed on January 1, 1885.

Fisherman's Wharf has served local specialty Dungeness crab for decades.