Editing Charles Kingsley (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Charles Kingsley - Bideford (2006-03-04).jpg|thumb|180px|right|A statue of Charles Kingsley at [[Bideford]], Devon (UK)]]
Charles Kingsley's novel ''[[Westward Ho! (novel)|Westward Ho!]]'' led to the founding of [[Westward Ho!|a village]] by the same name (the only place name in England with an exclamation mark) and inspired the construction of the [[Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway]]. A hotel in Westward Ho! was named after and opened by him. A hotel which was opened in 1897 in [[Bloomsbury]], London, and named after Kingsley was founded by [[teetotallers]], who admired Kingsley for his political views and his ideas on social reform. It still exists as ''The Kingsley by Thistle''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thistle.com/en/hotels/united_kingdom/london/the_kingsley/index.html |title=The Kingsley |website=thistle.com |access-date=2019-02-21 |archive-date=22 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722043010/http://www.thistle.com/en/hotels/united_kingdom/london/the_kingsley/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[Kingsley School, Bideford|Kingsley School]], a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] in [[Bideford]], the town in which ''[[Westward Ho! (novel)|Westward Ho!]]'' is set, took its name from him after it was founded in 2009 as a merger of [[Edgehill College]] and [[Grenville College]].

In 1905, the composer [[Cyril Rootham]] wrote a musical setting of Kingsley's poem ''Andromeda''. This was performed at the Bristol Music Festival in 1908. Like Kingsley, Rootham had been educated at Bristol Grammar School.<ref>[https://rootham.org/ Composer's website. Retrieved 2 May 2020.]</ref>