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Ulcombe
Ulcombe is a village near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book and is thought to derive from 'Owl-coomb': 'coomb' (pronounced 'coo-m') meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' (Chambers Dictionary) in Old English. The original deserted Medieval village site lies to the east of the parish church in a valley. There is also a water-mill below this site, probably of early origins. It stands below the Greensand Way. There is much evidence from recent archaeological fieldwork, undertaken under the direction of Neil Aldridge, for prehistoric and later occupation. A number of Palaeolithic hand-axes have been found to the east of Great Tong Bank, and are the result of solifluction over the last 70,000 years from an earlier river system. Lithic implements from the Mesolithic, Bronze Age and Neolithic periods show that the landscape was being used by early settlers. The Iron Age is the period when the local deposits of iron o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Saints Church, Ulcombe
All Saints is a parish church in Ulcombe, Kent. It was begun in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building. Building The church was begun in the 12th century, with alterations made during the next three centuries. Internal alterations were made in 1956–63 and the church was restored in the 1980s. The church is constructed variously of course (architecture), coursed and rubble masonry, rubble stonework and plain tiled roofs to the nave and chancel. It is a Grade I listed building. The nave is adjoined along its south side by an Aisle#Architecture, aisle and on the eastern end of the north side by a chapel. The chancel has chapels on the north and south sides. The 15th-century west tower is in three stages on a plinth with a battlemented parapet above a molding (decorative), moulded Course (architecture)#String course, string with gargoyles. A taller stair turret, also with battlements and gargoyles, is attached to the south-east corner. The bell tower, belfry openings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John St Leger (died 1441)
Sir John St Leger (died 1441) of Ulcombe in Kent, was Sheriff of Kent in 1430 and 1433. Family He was a son of Arnold St Leger, of Ulcombe, MP for Kent (UK Parliament constituency), Kent. He married Margery Donet, daughter and heiress of James Donet (died 1409) of Silham in the parish of Rainham, Kent, Rainham, Kent, by whom he had children including: *Ralph St Leger (died 1470) (''alias'' Randolf, etc.), eldest son and heir, of Ulcombe, Sheriff of Kent in 1467/8 and Constable of Leeds Castle in Kent, grandfather of Sir Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland), Anthony St Leger (died 1559), Knight of the Garter, KG, Lord Deputy of Ireland and ancestor of the St Leger Viscount Doneraile, Viscounts Doneraile. *Sir Thomas St Leger (c. 1440 – 1483) second husband of Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, Anne of York (1439–1476), daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (by his wife Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Cecily Neville) and thus an elder sister of Kings Edward IV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatch Bell Foundry
The Hatch bell foundry at Ulcombe, near Maidstone, in Kent, England, was operated by three generations of the Hatch family from 1581 or earlier until 1664. The Bellfounding, bellfounders were based at nearby Broomfield, Maidstone, Broomfield from about 1587 until at least 1639. Joseph Hatch, bellfounder from 1602 to 1639, cast at least 155 Bell (instrument), bells, including "Bell Harry", after which the central tower of Canterbury Cathedral is named. Most Hatch bells were used in churches east of the River Medway in East Kent. The bellfounders The first recorded member of the Hatch family of Bellfounding, bellfounders, named Thomas, received payment for work in the church at Cranbrook, Kent, in 1581 and 1593. He also made bells for the church at Lyminge in 1585 and for St Margaret's Church, Canterbury, and the churches at Bearsted, Langley, Kent, Langley and Margate in 1599. In 1887, according to J. C. L. Stahlschmidt, the only remaining bells made by Thomas Hatc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headcorn
Headcorn is a village and civil parish in the borough of Maidstone in Kent, England. The parish is on the floodplain of the River Beult south east of Maidstone. The village is 8 mi (13 km) southeast of Maidstone, on the A274 road to Tenterden. In addition to the parish church, dedicated to saints Peter and Paul, there are also churches and chapels for the Methodist, Baptist and Roman Catholic congregations. There is a small airfield located nearby, where there is an aviation museum and a parachuting centre. Headcorn Parachute Club is the only skydiving club in Kent and is home to national champions and world-record holders. Headcorn railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line between London and Dover. It was opened on 31 August 1842. On 1 December the same year, the South Eastern Railway opened the second section of its main line onward to Ashford. By 1844, trains were running from London to Dover. In June 1865 Charles Dickens was involved in a serious rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkenbury, Maidstone
Hawkenbury is a hamlet in the Maidstone (district), Maidstone district of Kent, England, in the civil parish of Staplehurst. Hawkenbury is approximately 2 miles north-east of Staplehurst and 2 miles north-west of Headcorn. Amenities include a pub with rooms, campsite and garden centre. Villages in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Design Awards
These awards were created to celebrate design excellence in Kent and were first staged in 2003 and are usually held every two years. They were then renamed 'Kent Design and Development Awards' in 2012. Then have stayed as the 'Kent Design and Development Awards' in 2014. 2003 * Commercial and Industrial Building winner - Holiday Extras HQ Building, Newingreen, Hythe * Public Building winner - Riverhead Infant School, Sevenoaks * Urban Design and Town Centre Renewal winner - St. Mildreds Lavender Mews, Canterbury * Best Individual House - Lynwood, Tunbridge Wells (private residence) * Housebuilding for Quality winner - Ingress Park, Greenhithe * Overall winner - Lynwood, Tunbridge Wells (private residence) Highly Commended was Romney Warren Visitor Centre 2004 * Housebuilding for Quality winner - Vista (private residence), Dungeness * Public Building/Education winner - St Augustine's RC School, Hythe * Town and Village Renaissance - Horsebridge and Brownings Yard, Whitstable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Of Kent Life
Kent Life (formerly the Museum of Kent Life) is an English open-air museum located at Sandling, Maidstone, Sandling, next to Allington, Kent, Allington Locks, on the east bank of the River Medway. History Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake bequeathed the Cobtree Manor Estate to Maidstone Borough Council in 1966. A part of the estate was Sandling Farm, on the banks of the Medway. In 1984 a decision was made to restore the derelict farm as part of a rural life museum. The museum opened to the public on July 6, 1985.Kentish Oasts p159 Farming At the museum, various aspects of farming are recreated. There are two small hop gardens, growing Fuggles and Goldings hops. Apple and plum orchards, a herb garden, a soft fruit garden and various livestock. Buildings The museum has a variety of buildings, most of which have been dismantled and re-erected at the museum. Barn A five bay barn dating from the eighteenth century and originally at Vale Farm, Calcott, near Sturry. The barn has an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Sutton
East Sutton is a parish approximately 6 miles south-east of Maidstone in Kent, England. East Sutton is small in number of dwellings but relatively large in area: the parish has a women's prison, a council estate of 16 houses and the Grade I listed 13th-century St Peter's and St Paul's Church. The population is included in the civil parish of Sutton Valence. HMP East Sutton Park is a prison and Young Offenders Institution for females, situated in a manor house, located just outside the village. King Edward VII used to visit the village for liaisons with his mistress, Alice Keppel at Pleasure House, on the border with Sutton Valence Sutton Valence (in the past also called Sudtone, Town Sutton and Sutton Hastings, see below) is a village about five miles (8 km) SE of Maidstone, Kent, England on the A274 road going south to Headcorn and Tenterden. It is on the Greensand .... External links East Sutton website Civil parishes in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Butler, 1st Marquess Of Ormonde
Walter Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, KP (5 February 1770 – 10 August 1820) was an Irish peer and politician. Partly to sustain his extravagant lifestyle, Walter gave up his hereditary right to the grant of the prisage of the wines of Ireland for an enormous sum of money. The right had been made to the 4th Chief Butler of Ireland by Edward I of England. Between 1789 and 1796, he sat for Kilkenny County in the Irish House of Commons. He served as Governor and Custos Rotulorum of County Kilkenny and was a Privy Counsellor in Ireland. He was also Colonel of the Kilkenny Militia. Family He was the son of John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde and Frances Susan Elizabeth Wandesford. He married Anna Maria Catherine Clarke, daughter of Joseph Hart Pryce Clarke, on 17 March 1805. She was the heiress, as niece to Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, to the Sutton Scarsdale estate. As they had no children, the Marquessate became extinct; the Earldom of Ormonde, however, devolved upon his brother Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faversham And Mid Kent (UK Parliament Constituency)
Faversham and Mid Kent is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2015, the seat has been represented by Helen Whately of the Conservative Party. Constituency profile Faversham and Mid Kent covers a mainly rural sweep around the North Downs, including part of Swale and Maidstone boroughs. Some of the traditional farming industry remains. Residents' health and wealth are around average for the UK. Boundaries 1997–2010: The Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Boughton & Courtenay, Davington Priory, East Downs, St Ann's, Teynham and Lynsted, and Watling, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boxley, Detling, Harrietsham and Lenham, Headcorn, Hollingbourne, Langley, Leeds, Park Wood, Shepway East, Shepway West, Sutton Valence, and Thurnham. 2010–present: The Borough of Swale wards of Abbey, Boughton and Courtenay, Davington Priory, East Downs, St Ann's, and Watling, and the Borough of Maidstone wards of Bearsted, Boughton Monchelsea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 centre of the town, linking it with Rochester, Kent, Rochester and the Thames Estuary. Historically, the river carried much of the town's trade as the centre of the agricultural county of Kent, known as the Garden of England. There is evidence of settlement in the area dating back before the Stone Age. The town, part of the borough of Maidstone, had an approximate population of 100,000 in 2019. Since World War II, the town's economy has shifted from heavy industry towards light industry and services. Toponymy Anglo-Saxon period of English history, Saxon charters dating back to ca. 975 show the first recorded instances of the town's name, ''de maeides stana'' and ''maegdan stane'', possibly meaning ''stone of the maidens'' or ''stone of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pluckley
Pluckley is a village and civil parish in the Ashford (borough), Ashford district of Kent, England. The civil parish includes the nucleated village, adjacent hamlet of Pluckley Thorne. Geography The landscape of the area itself is the edge of a well-drained plain, with the lowest slopes of the North Downs, Kent Downs to the north-west. Pluckley is mostly agricultural in land use and centred west of Ashford, Kent, Ashford. History References to Pluckley can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was a more significant settlement than the now considerably larger town of Ashford. The village's parish church, dedicated to Saint Nicholas, St Nicholas, dates primarily to the 13th and 14th centuries. The Dering Chapel, separated from the rest of the church by two screens and found at the east end of the south aisle, was built in 1475. The nave contains brasses dedicated to members of the Dering family, all of which were made in the 1630s by Sir Edward Dering, 1st Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
