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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "OLD ROMNEY":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CANTERBURY	Kent Surrey	Old Romney, St. MaryRomney-Marsh, Newchurch-Romney-Marsh, Ruckinge, Sevington, Shadoxhurst, Snargate, Snave, Warehorne, Wittrisham, and Woodchurch; the vicarages of Appledore	Imperial
  Cinque Ports, or Five Ports	Kent	Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; to these were afterwards added the "Ancient Towns," of Winchelsea and Rye, and a great many other places, which, with the title of Link or Member, held a subordinate position. The C. P. were constituted to form a defence along the SE. seaboard of England. In the lack of any regular navy they furnished, until the reign of Henry VII., nearly all the ships and seamen requisite for the service of the State. In return for their services they enjoyed many important privileges. Their old	Bartholomew
  DYMCHURCH	Kent	Romney-Marsh district, Kent; on the coast, 4 miles NE of New Romney, and 5¼ SSW of Westenhanger and Hythe r. station. It has a post office‡ under Folkestone. Acres, 1, 534; of which 420 are water. Real property, £3, 163. Pop., 718. Houses, 142. The property is much subdivided. The surface is all on the level of Romney-Marsh; and, together with the rest of that low tract, is protected from sea-inundation only by means of Dymchurch wall. This is an embankment about 3 miles long, about 20 feet high, and from	Imperial
  KENDAL	Westmorland	Romney the painter; and it numbers among its natives Richard de Kendal the grammarian, Bishop Potter, Dean Potter, Sir G. Wharton, Walker the astronomer, and Hudson and Wilson the botanists. It was freed from villeinage by one of its early barons, and was made a borough by Elizabeth. Wordsworth describes it as "A straggling borough, of ancient charter proud, And dignified by battlements and towers Of a stern castle, mouldering on the brow Of a green hill." The town stands chiefly along the right side of the Kent; and it has a principal spacious street, about a mile in length	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	Romney Marsh is a fine, soft, rich loam and clay. That of the flat lands in the vicinity of Faversham, Sandwich, and Deal is a rich sandy loam, with diversified proportions of sand, and a stiff wet clay. That of the hop grounds, which extend from Maidstone to Canterbury and thence to Sandwich, is, for the most part, a rich deep loam, on a sub-soil of deep brick earth. That of most of the Isle of Sheppey is a deep, stiff, strong clay; while that of the rest of the Isle is a rich, black, vegetable mould	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  MAIDSTONE	Kent	Romney, about 1 mile to the E, was rebuilt by the third Lord Romney about 1795; took its name, not from any ancient moat around the previous edifice, but from the Auglo-Saxon word mót, signifying "a gathering-place; ''and stands in a fine park, containing some grand old	Imperial
  MARYLEBONE	Middlesex	MARYLEBONE , a parish, a district, and a borough, in Middlesex. The parish forms a compact portion of the metropolis; lies	Imperial
  Old Romney	Kent	Old Romney , par., Kent, partly within the Cinque Port liberty of New Romney, 2546 ac., pop. 150.	Bartholomew
  ROMNEY-MARSH	Kent Sussex	ROMNEY-MARSH , a district in the S of Kent, and a liberty partly also in Sussex. The district lies on the coast, between Hythe and the boundary with Sussex; is divided into the sub-districts of New Romney and Lydd; and contains the parishes of West Hythe, Burmarsh, Dymchurch, Blackmanstone, Orgarswick, East-bridge, Newchurch, St. Mary-the-Virgin, Hope-All Saints, New Romney, Ivychurch, Lydd, Midley, Old	Imperial
  Romney, Old	Kent	Romney, Old , par., Kent, 2 miles W. of New Romney, 2546 ac., pop. 150; is partly within the cinque port	Bartholomew
  ROMNEY (Old)	Kent	ROMNEY (Old) , a parish in Romney-Marsh district, Kent; 2 miles W by N of New Romney, and 5 S E of Appledore	Imperial

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