Folkestone seems to have been built on 70″— a site which at least adds to the picturesque qualities of the town, the oldest part of which stands in a narrow valley, formed by the termination of the great chalk and sandstone ranges. The name (no doubt Fulke’s town) has been variously interpreted Folks-stane (the people’s rock) — the rock of the small people {fairies), thinks Baxter — or Flos-stane, a ‘flaw in the rock,’ which, says Lambarde, ‘beginneth here.’ A handbook for travellers in Kent and Sussex (1858), 139.