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Borough Green
Borough Green is situated in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The central area is situated on the A25 road between Maidstone and Sevenoaks, with the M26 motorway running through the centre dividing Wrotham and Borough Green. The word 'Borough' relates to the fact that Borough Green was a developed suburban area of Wrotham village and the division spread in the 1980s. History The name of the community describes what it originally was – a green to which the people of what was then the borough of Wrotham went for recreation and Wrotham remains a village. There is also a view that "borough", which predates any borough council in the area, relates to the word barrow, possibly referring to the Roman remains near the station site. Its location at a crossroads with the old route from Gravesend to Hastings meant that inns were gradually opened. The ''Red Lion'', founded in 1586, is now closed. The 1592 ''Black Bull'' became the ''Black Horse'', then ''The Black Hors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borough Green & Wrotham Railway Station
Borough Green & Wrotham railway station is located in Borough Green in Kent, England. It is down the line from . Train services are provided by Southeastern (train operating company), Southeastern. History Wrotham station opened on 1 June 1874, as part of the Maidstone Line from to Maidstone East railway station, Maidstone. The station was later renamed Wrotham & Boro Green. The goods yard had three sidings. One of them served a goods shed, another extended northwards to serve a Kentish Ragstone, Ragstone quarry. A 5-ton capacity crane was provided. Freight facilities were withdrawn on 9 September 1968. East of the station, there was a private siding at Platt, Kent, Platt, and a public siding at Offham, Kent, Offham. This closed on 6 September 1961. In Spring 2008, the concrete footbridge spanning the tracks to link the platforms was condemned and replaced by a new bridge immediately to the west. The ticket office in the 'down side' station building is staffed for part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. The English church renounced papal authority in 1534 when Henry VIII failed to secure a papal annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. The English Reformation accelerated under Edward VI's regents, before a brief restoration of papal authority under Queen Mary I and King Philip. The Act of Supremacy 1558 renewed the breach, and the Elizabethan Settlement charted a course enabling the English church to describe itself as both Reformed and Catholic. In the earlier phase of the English Reformation there were both Roman Catholic martyrs and radical Protestant martyrs. The later phases saw the Penal Laws punish Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrotham Heath
Wrotham Heath is a settlement in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. It is part of the civil parish of Wrotham, and is approximately south-east of the village of Wrotham, east of Sevenoaks, and west of Maidstone Maidstone is the largest Town status in the United Kingdom, town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the c .... It is located on the A20 road, close to the junction between the M20 and M26 motorways. Wrotham Heath Golf Club was founded in 1906. External links Wrotham Heath Golf ClubBoiler Manufacturer based in Wrotham Heath Villages in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platt, Kent
Platt, or St. Mary's Platt is a village and civil parish in the local government district of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The hamlet of Crouch (pronounced Crooch) lies within the parish. The River Bourne flows through the western part of the parish. Basted paper mill was within the parish boundary. The Anglican parish church of St Mary's dates from 1843 and stands on a hill overlooking the village centre. The architects were Whichcord and Walker of Maidstone. BBC broadcaster Adam Curtis grew up in Platt. Interment Richard Hearne Richard Lewis Hearne (30 January 1908 – 23 August 1979) was an English actor, comedian, producer and writer. He is best remembered for his stage and television character Mr Pastry. Career Hearne was born in Norwich, Norfolk, in 1908, the son ... is buried in the churchyard. He was an actor, who lived at Platt Farm, a fifteenth-century property in Long Mill Lane in the village, from the 1940s, from where he ran a market garden."The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ightham
Ightham ( ) is a village in Kent, England, located approximately four miles east of Sevenoaks and six miles north of Tonbridge. The parish includes the hamlet of Ivy Hatch. Ightham is famous for the nearby medieval manor of Ightham Mote (National Trust), although the village itself is of greater antiquity. Ightham is not mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'', but place-name evidence implies the name is derived from the Saxon 'Ehtaham'. 'Ehta' is a Jutish personal name, while 'ham' means settlement. The parish church dates from the 12th century, and in 1336 Edward II granted a request for permission to hold an annual fair in the village. Ightham was famous for growing Kentish cob nuts. These seem to have been cultivated first by James Usherwood, who lived at Cob Tree Cottage. There was a public house nearby called the Cob Tree Inn, which has now reverted to a private house. There are still a number of cob trees in and around the village, but the work of pruning them and picking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trottiscliffe
Trottiscliffe ( ) is a village in Kent, England about north west of West Malling. It is often incorrectly spelled ''Trosley'' after Trosley Country Park at the top of the North Downs, which was once part of the Trosley Towers Estate. The spelling ''Trottesclyve'' appears with nearby '' Hallyng'' in 1396. Labelled as Trotterscliffe on the Ordnance Survey map published in 1870. Historic buildings Its most notable features are the neolithic Coldrum Long Barrow and the medieval Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Notable residents Trottiscliffe was the English home of artist Graham Sutherland Graham Vivian Sutherland (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was a prolific English artist. Notable for his paintings of abstract landscapes and for his portraits of public figures, Sutherland also worked in other media, including printmaking ... from 1937 until his death in 1980. He was buried by Trottiscliffe parish church. References External links Trottiscliffe History Projec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Kingsdown
West Kingsdown is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England, on the A20 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Swanley, 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of Sevenoaks and from London. The Area The parish was part of Axstane Hundred and later Dartford Rural District. The village, because of its situation near London, grew considerably after the First World War from a relatively small farming community to a commuter village of around 5000 residents, expanding mainly on the northeast side of the A20. To the southwest of the main village are the rural housing developments of Knatts Valley and East Hill. To the north of the village lies the Brands Hatch motor racing circuit. There are four churches in the village: the parish church of St Edmund King and Martyr; West Kingsdown Baptist Church; the Roman Catholic church of St Bernadette; and Kings Church, an Evangelical church established in 1996. History ;Village Kingsdown, the former name of West Kingsdown vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romney Street
Romney Street is a hamlet in the civil parish of Shoreham, in the Sevenoaks district, in the English county of Kent. Location It is about 4 miles north east of the town of Sevenoaks and about 1.6 miles north of the large village of Kemsing. Nearby hamlets Nearby hamlets include East Hill, Woodlands, Knatts Valley, Maplescombe, Knockmill and Cotmans Ash. Transport For transport there is the A20 road, the A225 road, the M20 motorway, the M26 motorway The M26 is a motorway in Kent, England. It is a short link between the M25 at Sevenoaks and the M20 near West Malling, which provides connectivity between southern England and the Channel ports in Kent. Route The motorway starts at junction ... and the M25 motorway nearby. The nearest railway station is Otford railway station, which is 1.7 miles away. References * A-Z Great Britain Road Atlas (page 181) Hamlets in Kent Sevenoaks District {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denton Welch
Maurice Denton Welch (29 March 1915 – 30 December 1948) was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions. Life Welch was born in Shanghai, China, to Arthur Joseph Welch, a wealthy British rubber merchant, and his American wife of Christian Science faith, Rosalind Bassett from New Bedford, Massachusetts. The youngest of four sons, Welch, was sent to a boarding school at the age of 11, after his mother died from wasting kidney disease. After a brief time at prep school in London, Welch was sent to Repton, where he was a contemporary of the writer Roald Dahl and actor Geoffrey Lumsden. By his and others' accounts, his time there was miserable, and he ran away prior to his last term. After leaving Repton, he studied art at Goldsmiths' in London with the intention of becoming a painter. Welch spent part of his pre-school childhood in China, and returned for a longer spell after he left Repton. He recorded this episode in his fictionalised auto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva McLaren
Eva Maria McLaren (née Müller; 1852 – 16 August 1921) was an English suffragist, writer and campaigner. She served as Superintendent of the Franchise department of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She was actively associated with the Woman's Liberal Federation, and was the Vice-President of the National British Women's Temperance Association. In this capacity, she presided over and lead the white ribbon forces in England when the President, Lady Henry Somerset, was absent from the post. McLaren was superintendent of the department for work among municipal women voters; was an authority on parliamentary drill, as well as rules and procedure in debate; wrote leaflets on the subject of "The Duties of Women on Parish and District Councils"; and had the cause of woman's franchise greatly at heart. She was also a fine speaker. Her husband, Walter McLaren, M. P., was a nephew of John Bright and one of the chief champions of woman's cause in the British Parliament. Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hearne
Richard Lewis Hearne (30 January 1908 – 23 August 1979) was an English actor, comedian, producer and writer. He is best remembered for his stage and television character Mr Pastry. Career Hearne was born in Norwich, Norfolk, in 1908, the son of Richard and Lily May Hearne. Richard senior came from a theatrical family – his mother had been on the stage and he himself was a performing acrobat. Hearne worked on and off for the BBC for thirty years; he became the first performer to be known as a "television star" and also the first to have his own television series. The series, with the theme tune "Pop Goes The Weasel", had episodes lasting 25 minutes in which Hearne assumed the character of "Mr Pastry" – an old man with a walrus moustache, dressed in a black suit or raincoat and with a trademark bowler hat. Each week, the bumbling old man would have adventures, partly slapstick, partly comic dance, with two young friends. Jon Pertwee also starred in the show in a variety of r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dixon (scientist)
Richard Newland Dixon (25 December 1930—25 May 2021) FRS was a British chemist noted for his work in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter. He was born in Borough Green, Kent the son of Robert T and Lilian Dixon He was educated at The Judd School, King's College London (BSc, 1951) and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (PhD, 1955). He married Alison Birks in 1954. From 1969, his career was based at the University of Bristol, starting as Chair of Theoretical Chemistry. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986 and awarded the Rumford Medal The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe". First awar ... in 2004. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Richard 1930 births 2021 deaths People educated at The Judd School Alumni of King's College London Alumni of St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
