Kent and Surrey Bylines celebrates its fourth anniversary

Kent and Surrey Bylines is four years old on January 5 2025 and we are celebrating with a quiz!

Kent Bylines published its first article on 5 January 2021. Renamed Kent and Surrey Bylines in 2023, it has now completed four years of publishing, with some 1300 articles now archived. We would like to thank all those who have contributed in those four years.

Happy fourth anniversary Kent and Surrey Bylines!

We encourage submissions from a variety of writers; some only write one article on whatever they are passionate about while others submit more frequently. Some shine the spotlight on a local event or campaign. Have you been following these local articles? If so, test yourself in the geography quiz below:

1 – Princes Parade is:

a) A shopping street  near the spa at Tunbridge Wells

b) Near the Royal Military Canal

c) In Canterbury

d) At Chatham naval docks

2 – Why did Horse Hill in Surrey hit the headlines?

a) Campaigners won their case to stop fracking there

b) Campaigners lost case to stop windfarm there

c) Travellers hold a horse fair there

d) A policeman accused of mistreating a cow in the street there

3 – Gravelines:

a) Is famous for World War 1 graves

b) Is about to get a giga battery factory

c) Is where the interconnector comes from France

d) Has a campaign against a solar farm

4 – Down House in Surrey was the home of:

a) Vita Sackville West

b) H.G. Wells

c) Charles Darwin

d) Winston Churchill

5 – Which of these species has Kent Wildlife not introduced to Kent:

a) Choughs

b) Beavers

c) Bison

d) Asian hornets

6 – MetrOpale is:

a) An extension of the Elizabeth line

b) A new coastal rail operation in northern France

c) A hotel in Calais

d) A casino in Ramsgate

7 – Hollingbourne railway station is famous for:

a) A rail accident when Charles Dickens was on the train

b) Winning the best-kept station competition

c) A café with homemade cakes

d) Leaves on the line

8 – Betteshanger is:

a) The site of an old RAF airfield

b) The site of an old coal mine

c) A funfair near Dover

d) An ice-rink in Folkestone

9 – There is a glamping site in Surrey at:

a) Leeds Castle

b) Hampton Court

c) Horse Hill

d) Milberry Green

10 – There were campaigns against sewage in the sea this year at:

a) Broadstairs

b) Whitstable

c) Folkestone

d) Camber Sands

Answers to yesterday’s Christmas quiz 10 about European cities:

1. Paris
2. Cologne
3. Rome
4. Brussels
5. Naples
6. Bristol
7. Marseille
8. Kiev/Kyiv
9. Geneva
10. Genoa

Answers to today’s quiz: 1b, 2a, 3b, 4c, 5d, 6b, 7c, 8b, 9d,10b

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