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1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« on: Monday 14 January 08 15:30 GMT (UK) »

For a geographical perspective, if you were travelling from Essex to Ramsgate, Kent in the 1820's, I assume there would be some kind of passenger boat service available? Which ports in Essex sailed to Ramsgate across the Thames estuary?
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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #1 on: Monday 14 January 08 17:15 GMT (UK) »

Bagshaw's Directory of 1847 only lists conveyance by water to London and Ostend from Ramsgate.

http://www.hereshistorykent.org.uk/displayImageData.cfm?type=Directory&digref=BagshawRam-12&placename=Ramsgate&placeID=362&categoryID=23
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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #2 on: Monday 14 January 08 17:18 GMT (UK) »

I understand that carriage was the more common form of transport.

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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #3 on: Monday 14 January 08 17:47 GMT (UK) »

Pigot's Directory of 1840 only lists water conveyance services to London, and Boulogne and Calais.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shebra/pigots_1840_-_ramsgate.htm

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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #4 on: Monday 14 January 08 19:31 GMT (UK) »

Thanks for the input.
Looks like private small boat hire, or by carriage via London then. Seems unusual, but perhaps no business need to cross directly. Perhaps from the map there were ferry crossings further up from Greys or Woolwich?
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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #5 on: Monday 14 January 08 19:36 GMT (UK) »

There were (and still are) ferries between Woolwich and North Woolwich, and Gravesend to Tilbury.
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Re: 1820's travel by boat from ESX to Ramsgate
« Reply #6 on: Monday 14 January 08 20:32 GMT (UK) »

Possibly the ferry from Tilbury to Gravesend, then other form of transport to Ramsgate.
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