That year, Tamworth earned a 3 – 3 draw on the final day at Folkestone Invicta while Kettering Town won, passing Tamworth for first place and winning promotion to the Conference National.

Maidstone struggled in the new surroundings of the Isthmian League Premier Division and spent the majority of the season near the foot of the table, however they avoided relegation after beating Folkestone Invicta 1 – 0 on the last day of the season, a result that relegated Invicta in Maidstone's place.

After being knocked out of the FA Cup in November, Harrow Borough sparked an unbeaten run into January before losing to Folkestone Invicta.

* Cheriton Road is a nearby football stadium that is the home ground of Folkestone Invicta

In the 2009 – 10 season manager Chuck Martini led the side to the play-off final, where they lost 2 – 1 to Folkestone Invicta, and the Surrey Senior Cup final, where the G's beat Isthmian League Premier Division side Sutton United 2 – 1.

Folkestone Rugby Club was formed in 1974 and currently play in London and SE league 4.

Folkestone Cricket Club currently competes in the first division of the Kent Cricket League.

Folkestone Rowing Club is in Sandgate.

Image: Folkestone Rowing Club. jpg | Folkestone Rowing Club in Sandgate

Bentine was born Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, of a Peruvian father, Adam Bentin, and a British mother, Florence Dawkins, and grew up in Folkestone, Kent.

The station was founded in Dover as Neptune Radio in September 1997 but moved to Folkestone in 2003 and was consequently rebranded after a takeover by the KM Group.

After his death the William Harvey Hospital was constructed in the town of Ashford, several miles from his birthplace of Folkestone.

William's father: Tom Harvey, was a jurat of Folkestone where he served the office of mayor in 1600.

Harvey's initial education was carried out in Folkestone, where he learned Latin.

Until the 19th century Folkestone remained a small fishing community with a seafront that was continually battered by storms and encroaching shingle that made it hard to land boats.

Folkestone Harbour Company commissioned Foster Associates to produce a masterplan for Folkestone which was published in April 2006.

It was not until the mid 19th century that the spelling of " Folkestone " was fixed as such, with the Earl of Radnor requesting that the town's name be standardised ( although this tendency towards standardisation in the 19th century is true of English place names generally ).

Folkestone forms a part of Shepway District, which was established by the Local Government Act 1972.

The third and lowest tier was established as the civil parish: in Folkestone ’ s case, because it held a Town Charter, and when the then Folkestone Borough Council was abolished, Councillors elected to represent Folkestone's wards were designated as the Town's Charter Trustees, responsible for electing a Town Mayor.

Folkestone Town Council was established in 2004, comprising the area of the former Borough of Folkestone less Folkestone Sandgate ward, which was separately parished.

Folkestone was at one stage a resort town with a developed shipping trade.

In 2004 talks began between the leaders of Folkestone and Boulogne ( Folkestone's twin-town ), which was also facing similar economic problems.

The railway reached Folkestone on 28 June 1843 and a temporary station was built while the construction of the line to Dover continued.

Schools and colleges in Folkestone include The Folkestone Academy ( formed by the merger of Hillside School for Boys and Holywell School for Girls in the early 1970s, and formerly known as Wyndgate Secondary School in the 1970s, The Channel High School in the 1980s, and The Channel School in the 1990s ); and Pent Valley Technology College ( formerly Pent Valley Secondary Modern, formed by the merger of Harcourt Seconday School for Girls and Morehall Secondary School for Boys in the 1970s ).

There are two selective state secondary schools – The Folkestone School for Girls ( formed by the merger of The Folkestone Technical High School for Girls and The Folkestone Grammar School for Girls in the 1980s ) and the Harvey Grammar School for boys ; the latter was founded in 1674.

In August 2009 he played at the Hevy Music Festival in Folkestone, UK.

In August 2009 they played at the Hevy Music Festival in Folkestone, and in June 2010 they headlined the John Peel Stage on the last night of Glastonbury Festival.

At Folkestone 1933, he again played board one, and made 9 / 14, helping Czechoslovakia to the team silver, and earning a bronze medal for himself.

)) played similarly positioned English clubs ( Ashford, Folkestone and (?)).

* In July 1933, he played at the 5th Chess Olympiad in Folkestone (+ 5 – 3 = 6 ).

* In July 1933, he played at second board at the 5th Chess Olympiad in Folkestone (+ 6 – 5 = 3 ).

He played for Hungary in three Chess Olympiads: Folkestone 1933 ( scoring + 7 = 6 − 0 as the reserve, the fifth player on the team ), Warsaw 1935 ( scoring + 11 = 8 − 0 on second board ), and Stockholm 1937 ( scoring + 9 = 6 − 2 on first board, leading his team to the silver medal ).

The railway reached Dover from two directions: the South Eastern Railway's main line connected with Folkestone in 1844, and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway opened its line from Canterbury in 1861.

Today the domestic services from Folkestone use the Central and West stations on the South Eastern Main Line.

Since December 2009, high speed commuter services from Dover have called at Folkestone and then, using the South Eastern Main Line to Ashford International, the services join HS1 for the journey to Ebbsfleet, Stratford and London St Pancras.

Following the opening of the branch line from Lewes to Newhaven, the railway sought to develop a new shorter Continental route from London to Paris, via Dieppe, in competition to the South Eastern Railway routes from Dover to Calais and Folkestone to Boulogne.

The South Eastern Railway Company applied to have the castle demolished in 1911 to provide a rail link along the coastline from Hythe to Folkestone In 1960 another application for demolition and replacement with a block of flats was rejected by the planning authority.

Pearson also tendered for a seafront railway, to connect the Eastern and Western Docks by rail ; the Western were already directly linked to the main line from Dover to Folkestone.

The South Eastern Railway operated a number of ships from Folkestone and Dover to Boulogne, France and Ostend, Belgium.

When engineering work takes place on the South Eastern Main Line, services from London to Ashford International, Folkestone and Dover call additionally at Chislehurst, using Class 375 units.

The station is also west of Folkestone Central on the South Eastern Main Line.

The South Eastern Main Line reached Folkestone in 1843, with a station being opened at Folkestone Junction ( Folkestone East ) on 18 December 1843.

The South Eastern Main Line reached Folkestone in 1843, with a station being opened at Folkestone Junction ( Folkestone East ) on 18 December 1843.

The South Eastern Railway's ( SER ) first mainline went to Dover via Folkestone and Ashford.

The duplicate keys to the safes were held by confidential servants of the railway company in London and Folkestone, and also by the captains of the South Eastern railway's boats.

The South Eastern Main Line is a long-distance major railway route in South East England, UK, one of the two main routes crossing the county of Kent, via Sevenoaks, Tonbridge, Ashford and Folkestone to Dover.