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The Ridgeway, HYTHE, CT21 4PW

The long distance path leads alongside the road heading towards Shepway Cross and then onwards to Pedlinge. It also leads right via a bridleway (and access road) to Lympne Castle.

This monumental cross (at the junction of Aldington Road and Lympne Hill) indicates what was from 1358, a meeting place of the confederation of the Cinque ports, several miles west of Hythe, known then as "the Shepway crossroads". Shepway cross, erected in 1923,is a monument to the Court of Shepway. The lathe of Shepway was the Saxon name for south east Kent, roughly corresponding with the modern District of Shepway, comprising Folkestone, Hythe, Romney Marsh and nearby villages as far north as Elham. Many historians think this monument marks where the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports held his court for Shepway, and it is referred to as the “Shepway Cross”. In fact the Shepway Cross is a civic war memorial erected in 1923. It was placed on the top of Lympne Hill because that was traditionally the site of the Court of Shepway. Shepway Cross was paid for and unveiled in August 1923 by Earl Beauchamp, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson, attended the ceremony. The memorial now shows signs of decay. The lettering denoting the monument's true purpose is hardly legible.

Grade II listed http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1251489 war memorial erected in 1923 to the fallen of the Cinque Ports.

The long distance path heads along Aldington Road heading towards Lympne Castle. Lympne Hill (on the left) heads downhill towards West Hythe. Image is in the background.