Fairfield is a village that is part of the

Church of England parish The parish with its parish church(es) is the basic territorial unit of the Church of England. The parish has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the English Reformation largely untouched. Each is within one of 42 dioceses: divide ...

of ''Brookland and Fairfield'' on

Walland Marsh Walland Marsh is a part of Romney Marsh, mostly in Kent with part in East Sussex. The name means ''wall-land'': its north-eastern border, separating it from the rest of Romney Marsh, is the Rhee Wall.Romney Marsh Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about . The Marsh has been in use for centuries, though its inhabitants commonly suffered from malaria until the ...

) in the Folkestone and Hythe District of

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England. Until 1934 it was a

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, but was then absorbed into the civil parish of

Snargate Snargate is a village near New Romney in Kent, England. Snargate was home to artist Harold Gilman, sometimes called the English Van Gogh. He was a British Impressionist and a member of the Camden Town Group. He grew up at Snargate Rectory, where ...

. 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

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, in the

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. 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''

References

External links

St Thomas à Becket at Fairfield

Fairfield
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