Kentish Knock

Kentish Knock may refer to:

  • Kentish Knock, an area off the coast of Kent and Essex in England
  • Battle of the Kentish Knock, fought in October 1652
  • London Array, a wind farm near the Kentish Knock.
  • Lightvessels in the United Kingdom, LV Kentish Knock was a lightship

Famous quotes containing the words kentish and/or knock:

    The red-eyed scavengers are creeping
    From Kentish Town and Golder’s Green.
    Where are the eagles and the trumpets?
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I would not knock old fellows in the dust
    But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back
    His weapons were the old heart in his bust
    And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.
    John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)