Goodnestone is a village and civil parish in the

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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. The civil parish is called Graveney with Goodnestone. The village is mainly on the road 'Head Hill Road' towards

Graveney Graveney is a relatively small but widely dispersed village located between Faversham and Whitstable in Kent, England. The main part of the village is located along the intersection of Seasalter Road, Sandbanks Road and Head Hill Road (at the rail ...

History

The village was referred to in 1242 as "Godwineston", meaning "the farm or settlement of Godwin". The antiquarian

Edward Hasted Edward Hasted (20 December 1732 OS (31 December 1732 NS) – 14 January 1812) was an English antiquarian and pioneering historian of his ancestral home county of Kent. As such, he was the author of a major county history, ''The History and T ...

refers to it in 1798 as 'Goodneston'. St Bartholomew's Church is an unspoilt Grade I listed,

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church, built about 1100. The church has not been used for regular worship since 1982, but in 1996 it was vested in the

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. It was extensively repaired in 1997, and in 2006 it was understood to be still consecrated. The other Grade II* listed building in the hamlet, is 'Goodnestone Court'.

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* Villages in Kent Civil parishes in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub