"Hithe" is a Saxon word that means a landing place.
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It was a round- arched bridge with three arches. The current iron bridge was designed by John Galpin, an Oxford-based engineer, in 1861. The name "Hythe" is derived from the "hithe" (wharf) that used to be located by the bridge. "Hithe" is a Saxon word that means a landing place.
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There has been a road here since at least 1233. Previous names include Hide Brigge, Hithe Brigge, and Rewley Lane. It used to form part of the road between Oxford and Witney to the west. The name "Hythe" is derived from the "hithe" (wharf) that used to be located by the bridge on Hythe Bridge Street.
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It gave Cambridge monopoly of waterborne traffic and hithe tolls and recognised the borough court. The distinctive Round Church dates from this period. In 1209, Cambridge University was founded by Oxford students fleeing from hostility. The oldest existing college, Peterhouse, was founded in 1284.
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The Sussex coast has always suffered from occasional violent storms; with the additional hazard of longshore drift (the eastward movement of shingle along the coast), the coastline has been frequently changing. The original Roman port is likely now under the sea. Bulverhythe was probably a harbour used by Danish invaders, which suggests that -hythe or hithe means a port or small haven.
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Hythe () is a coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the district of Folkestone and Hythe on the south coast of Kent. The word Hythe or Hithe is an Old English word meaning haven or landing place. The town has mediaeval and Georgian buildings, as well as a Saxon/Norman church on the hill and a Victorian seafront promenade. Hythe was once defended by two castles, Saltwood and Lympne.
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This was rebuilt in the early 1990s and renamed The Ferry Inn and later The Ferryman.Christopher Winn: I Never Knew That about the River Thames (London: Ebury Press, 2010), p. 39. The poet Matthew Arnold described the area in his 1853 work "The Scholar Gipsy": :Thee, at the ferry, Oxford riders blithe, :Returning home on summer nights, have met :Crossing the stripling Thames at Bablock-hithe :Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet :As the slow punt swings round. The site is overlooked by the "Warm green-muffled Cumnor Hills", and is now an extensive caravan site.
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It takes its modern name from the de Cove family who held land there at that time, and the fact that it had a hithe, or quay, for loading and unloading small vessels. By the 17th century however it had fallen victim, like nearby Dunwich, to coastal erosion. The large church of St Andrew, which had been built on the back of its wealth, was largely pulled down, although its tall tower remains, and a smaller church was erected amongst the ruins in 1672. There is archaeological evidence of the linen industry having been carried out at Covehithe until the 18th century.
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56; Cockerill, Sara, Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen It depicts Eleanor as vain and violent: she demands of the king "that ev'ry man/That ware long lockes of hair,/Might then be cut and polled all"; she orders "That ev'ry womankind should have/Their right breast cut away"; she imprisons and tortures the Lady Mayoress of London, eventually murdering the Mayoress with poisonous snakes; she blasphemes against God on the common ground at Charing, causing the ground to swallow her up; and finally, miraculously spat up by the ground at Queen's Hithe, and now on her death-bed, she confesses not only to murder of the Mayoress but also to committing infidelity with a friar, by whom she has borne a child.Griffin, Eric, English Renaissance Drama and the Specter of Spain: Ethnopoetics and Empire, p. 56. This was followed in the 1590s by George Peele's The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First. The first version of this, written in the early 1590s, is thought to have presented a positive depiction of the relationship between Eleanor and Edward.
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