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Stone In Oxney
Stone in Oxney is a village south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony near Appledore. The village is south east of Tenterden, and stands in a position on the eastern side of the Isle of Oxney. The stone that gives the village its name is preserved in the village church, and is of Roman origin. Often thought to be an altar of Mithras, it in fact depicts Apis. The Saxon Shore Way, a long-distance walking route tracing the old Saxon The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic * * * * peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ... shoreline, passes through the parish. References File:Roman Altar at Stone in the Isle of Oxney.jpg, Roman Altar at Stone in the Isle of Oxney Villages in Kent Villages in the Borough of Ashford {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone-cum-Ebony
Stone-cum-Ebony is a large mostly rural and marshland civil parish centred SSW of Ashford in Kent, South East England. It includes the village of Stone in Oxney and tiny community of Ebony. Its population expanded by 69 in the ten years to 2011. Geography The parish is south east of Tenterden, and stands mostly slightly elevated on the eastern side of the Isle of Oxney. The Saxon Shore Way, a long-distance walking route tracing the old Saxon shoreline, passes through the parish. Wholly within the greater Isle of Oxney, the far north of the parish is marked by a small tributary of the Rother. It has one long street lined community at its centre. History Being almost flat and rectangular in area, the current bounds are those reflecting the centuries-old church parish boundaries: the south-east of the parish has the Royal Military Canal which helps to drain what was otherwise an almost impenetrable marsh, and the west of the parish reaches to include about a quarter of Witt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxon Shore Way
The Saxon Shore Way is a long-distance footpath in England. It starts at Gravesend, Kent, and traces the coast of South-East England as it was in Roman times as far as Hastings, East Sussex, in total. This means that around Romney Marsh the route runs significantly inland from the modern coastline. History The line of the Roman fortification that the route traces includes ancient forts, modern towns, nature reserves and coastline: four Roman forts built in the fourth century lie along the route, at Reculver, Richborough, Dover and Lympne. At Seasalter there is an internationally important area for geese, ducks, and waders. The diversity of scenery along the route includes the wide expanses of marshland bordering the Thames and Medway estuaries, the White cliffs of Dover, and panoramic views over Romney Marsh from the escarpment that marks the ancient coastline between Folkestone and Rye. The Saxon Shore Way was originally opened in 1980, but has since been re-established, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebony, Kent
Ebony is a hamlet south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony, on the Isle of Oxney in the Ashford district of Kent. EBONY (St. Mary), is a parish, in the union of Tenterden, partly in the hundred of Tenterden, Lower division of the lathe of Scray, W. division, but chiefly in the hundred of Oxney, lathe of Shepway, E. division, of Kent, 4 miles (S. E.) from Tenterden. The place-name 'Ebony' is first attested in a Saxon charter of 833, where it appears as ''Ebbanea''. The name means 'Ebba's or Ybba's stream'. Notable residents (past & present) *Norman Forbes-Robertson – distinguished Victorian Shakespearean actor * Dave McKean – illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician * Sir Donald Sinden CBE – distinguished actor *Marc Sinden – film director, actor and West End theatre producer *Maria Ann Smith – orchardist and cultivator of the Granny Smith apple was married here. Ebony was form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading Street, Ashford
Reading Street is a hamlet approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of Tenterden in Kent, England. It is situated on the B2080 road between Tenterden and Appledore at a point where a bridge crosses the ''Reading Sewer'', and tributary of the River Rother. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of Wittersham Wittersham is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It is part of the Isle of Oxney. History The Domesday Book of 1086 does not mention Wittersham, but it does assign the manor of Palstre to Odo, Bishop .... Its church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was originally moved from the nearby hamlet of Ebony in the 19th century. References External links Notes on village Villages in Kent Tenterden {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wittersham
Wittersham is a small village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. It is part of the Isle of Oxney. History The Domesday Book of 1086 does not mention Wittersham, but it does assign the manor of Palstre to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Palstre was only one of four places in the Weald, apparently, that had a church. The Domesday Book entry reads:- "In Oxenai hundred, Osbern Paisforiere holds Palestrei, from the Bishop. It is taxed at three yokes. Arable land for two ploughs. In demesne, nine smallholders have half a plough. There is a church, 2 servants, of meadow, 5 fisheries at twelve pence, woodland for the pannage of 10 hogs. In the time of Edward the Confessor, it was worth forty shillings, now sixty shillings. Edwy the priest held it for King Edward." An early variation of the village name may be ''Wyghtresham''. Manor Early in the 18th century, the manor came into the ownership of Thomas Brodnax or May of Godmersham Park, Kent. May changed his na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peasmarsh
Peasmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Rother district, in the county of East Sussex in England. It is located on the A268 road between Rye and Beckley, some north-west of Rye. The village church, dedicated to St Peter and Paul, lies about one mile (1.6 km) from the village; it is thought the village centre was moved after the Black Death plague. There are three public houses and a motel in close proximity to the village; and a country house hotel with a leisure centre. The village is also home to an independent supermarket, although the proprietors choose not to open their store on Sundays. Peasmarsh Place, now a residential care home, is to the south-east of the village. Every year, in June, the ''Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival'', bringing world-class concerts of chamber music, is held in the church. Governance The lowest level of government is the Peasmarsh parish council. The parish council is responsible for local amenities such as the provision of lit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houghton Green
Playden is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England. The village is located one mile (1.6 km) north-west of Rye. History Playden is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Pleidena; it is a largely rural parish, having no village centre, and the hamlet of Houghton Green is included in the parish. Playden's main occupation was fishing: the fish were salted in a one-time settlement known as ''Saltcote'', after the fact that it had a fish salting industry based there. ''Saltcote Street'' is now all that remains of that industry. Governance Playden Parish Council has four councillors, and meets monthly at the WI Hall in the village. The parish is within the Rother District of East Sussex. In the United Kingdom Parliament, it is part of the Hastings & Rye constituency, represented since the 2019 UK general election by Sally-Ann Hart, of the Conservative party. Landmarks The Norman church is dedicated to St Michael. It was begun in 1190, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfield, Kent
Fairfield is a village that is part of the Church of England parish of ''Brookland and Fairfield'' on Walland Marsh (part of Romney Marsh) in the Folkestone and Hythe District of Kent, England. Until 1934 it was a civil parish, but was then absorbed into the civil parish of Snargate. The area lies west of the village of Brookland. Church of St Thomas a Becket The area is most notable for the isolated church of St Thomas a Becket, a Grade I listed building, in the Romney Deanery. The church has been used as a filming location, including for: * a 2011 BBC adaption of ''Great Expectations'' * a 2012 BBC adaption of ''Great Expectations'' *''Parade's End ''Parade's End'' is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford, written from 1924 to 1928. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is mainly ...'', a 2012 BBC serial * a 1972 film adaptation of ''The Canterbury Tales'' Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenzett
Brenzett is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe District of Kent, England. The village lies on the Romney Marsh, three miles (4.8 km) west of New Romney. The population of the civil parish includes the hamlet of Snave. The place-name 'Brenzett' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as ''Brensete''. The name is thought to mean 'burnt house' in Old English. Eilert Ekwall, ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names'', p.63. It is the home to the Romney Marsh Wartime Collection incorporating the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum Trust, which as well as exhibiting the remains of various World War II combat aircraft that have been excavated from the surrounding marshland also includes a de Havilland Vampire T.11 and an English Electric Canberra B.2 on display in the museum grounds. Brenzett was also the site of a Royal Air Force Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) airfield during the Second World War, RAF Brenzett Royal Air F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Appledore Heath
Appledore is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is on the northern edge of the Romney Marsh, 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Ashford town. The northerly part of this village is Appledore Heath. History The name Appledore comes from the Old English ''apuldre'' (meaning apple tree) and is first recorded in the 10th century. Although a Brythonic origin is more likely (given the widespread survival of Brythonic names in Kent) e.g. from or connected with "dwr/dor" meaning water. Appledore was once a port on the estuary of the River Rother. Famously, the greater part of the Danish army (280 ships - 5000 men) wintered at Appledore in 892–93, before moving into Wessex and suffering defeat at the hands of the Saxons led by King Alfred's son Edward the Elder at Farnham in Surrey. The defeated Danes fell back to Benfleet in Essex where they were again defeated in battle. The importance of Appledore as a port diminished sud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglo-Saxons
The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo-Saxons happened within Britain, and the identity was not merely imported. Anglo-Saxon identity arose from interaction between incoming groups from several Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes, both amongst themselves, and with Celtic Britons, indigenous Britons. Many of the natives, over time, adopted Anglo-Saxon culture and language and were assimilated. The Anglo-Saxons established the concept, and the Kingdom of England, Kingdom, of England, and though the modern English language owes somewhat less than 26% of its words to their language, this includes the vast majority of words used in everyday speech. Historically, the Anglo-Saxon period denotes the period in Britain between about 450 and 1066, after Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apis (Greek Mythology)
Apis (; Ancient Greek: Ἄπις derived from ''apios'' "far-off" or "of the pear-tree") is the name of a figure, or several figures, appearing in the earliest antiquity according to Greek mythology and historiography. It is uncertain exactly how many figures of the name Apis are to be distinguished, particularly due to variation of their genealogies. A common element is that an Apis was an early king in the Peloponnesus that had a territory named after himself and that Apis was often, but not always, ascribed an Egyptian origin. For the sake of convenience, the variant myths are presented here as if they dealt with separate characters. * Apis, king of Argos. He was a son of Phoroneus by the nymph Teledice, and brother of Niobe. During his reign, he established a tyrannical government and called the Peloponnesus after his own name Apia, but was eventually killed in a conspiracy headed by Thelxion, king of Sparta, and Telchis. * Apis, king of Sicyon and son of Telchis. * Apis, acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
