Editing Folkestone (section)

==Toponymy==
[[File:View of Folkestone, West End.jpg|thumb|right|Views of Folkestone]]
Although Kent was the first part of the British mainland to be conquered and settled by the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the middle of the 5th century AD, after the departure of the Romans, the name ''Folcanstan'' did not appear until the late 7th century. There is general agreement that this means ''Folca's stone'', the stone possibly marking the meeting place of the local [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=A.D. |title=A Dictionary of British Place Names |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199609086 |url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-5571 |access-date=10 February 2018 |archive-date=11 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211071953/http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199609086.001.0001/acref-9780199609086-e-5571 |url-status=live}}</ref> It was not until the mid 19th century that the spelling of "Folkestone" was fixed as such, with the [[Earl of Radnor]] requesting that the town's name be standardized (although this tendency towards standardisation in the 19th century is true of English place names generally). Folkestone is often misspelled with variants including Folkston, Folkstone & Folkestone.