Hackington is an area of

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, England, also known (especially historically) as St Stephen's, incorporating the northern part of the city, as well as a semi-rural area to the north. It is an ancient

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, with the

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dedicated to

St Stephen Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ''Stéphanos'', meaning "wreath, crown" and by extension "reward, honor, renown, fame", often given as a title rather than as a name; c. 5 – c. 34 AD) is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first ...

. It is also the name of a modern

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immediately north of Canterbury, the main community of which is Tyler Hill. The ecclesiastical and civil parishes overlap geographically, but are not identical. The original village of Hackington was centred on a village green at the current day location of St Stephen's Church Hackington, the Manwood Almshouses, and Ye Olde Beverlie

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, a location still known as St Stephen's Green. Ye Olde Beverlie served as the clubhouse of the Berverley Cricket Club from its formation in 1835. The club changed its name in 1842 to become

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, now based at the

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in Canterbury. The village of Hackington is today entirely subsumed into the northern suburbs of the city of Canterbury.

Ecclesiastical parish

The church was built around 1050 AD, with the tower about a hundred years later, and the transepts in the 16th century by

Sir Roger Manwood Sir Roger Manwood (1525–1592) was an English jurist and Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Birth Sir Roger was the second son of Thomas Manwood (d. 1538, draper) and Katherine (d.1566, daughter of John Galloway of Cley, Norfolk). He was bor ...

. The parish stretches right into the city centre (ending in the Westgate Ward) and is contiguous with the parish of St Dunstan to the south and the parish of

Blean Blean is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury, Canterbury district of Kent, England. The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland. The village, developed village within the parish is scattere ...

to the north. The church and parish are mentioned in the

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(1086) where the village is called Latintone, a name subsequently corrupted to Hackington. A site here was projected in the 1180s by Archbishop Baldwin for a new college, which was to contain the archiepiscopal ''cathedra'' and stalls for the king and the bishops of the province of Canterbury, but the monks of Canterbury procured a veto for the scheme from

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. The parish is still active, with a full time parish priest (rector), and is not held in plurality or united in a wider benefice. The population of the ecclesiastical parish (according to the Research & Statistics Unit of the

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in 2020) is 9,309 people living in 2,724 households.

Civil parish

The modern civil parish of Hackington does not include the ancient village centre of the same name, nor most of the original ecclesiastical parish, although there is an area of overlap north of Hales Place. The greatest part of the civil parish in further north, centred around the community of Tyler Hill, which is located in the ecclesiastical parish of Blean. The population of the civil parish is much smaller than that of the ecclesiastical parish. It rose by more than 10 per cent between the census reports of 2001 and 2011, from 522 to 589.

Hales Place

An early sixteenth century house and estate, owned by the

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, and located in the parish of Hackington, fell into the hands of the Crown at the

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, and was given to Sir Roger Manwood. Manwood endowed the community's almshouses (still extant), and carried out extensions and repairs to the parish church of St Stephen, in which he is buried. The property later passed to the Culpepper family, and became known as St Stephen's House. In 1675 it was sold to Sir John Hales, who demolished the house and built a new one, known as Hales Place. A very few traces of the estate remain, but it is now largely developed as a residential housing estate, the original house having been demolished around 1930.

Famous residents

*Sir

Christopher Hales Sir Christopher Hales (died 1541) was an English judge and Master of the Rolls. Family The family of Hales was a most ancient one, deriving its name from Hales in Norfolk, where the ancestor of the father of Roger de Hales (1274–1313), Ralph d ...

, eminent judge and

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, died at Hackington in 1541 *

Sarah Dixon Sarah Dixon (baptised 28 September 1671 – 23 April 1765) was an English poet, probably born in Rochester, Kent, where she was baptised.Orlando, CambridgRetrieved 14 May 2017./ref> She took to writing "during a Youth of much Leisure", although ...

, poet, lived in the parish and died there on 23 April 1765.Orlando, Cambridg
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and

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, lived in the parish and endowed it greatly. *

Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet (28 September 1645 – October 1695) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England from 1679 to 1681. He became a Catholic and supported King James II at the time of the Glorious Revolution. Ba ...

, and assorted other members of the Hales family, resided at

Hales Place The residential area known as Hales Place is part of the civil parish of Hackington, and lies to the north of the city of Canterbury in Kent, England. The residents include large numbers of students from the nearby University of Kent. History T ...

References

* Stubbs, William (1865).
Epistolae cantuarienses
the letters of the prior and convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, from A.D. 1187 to A.D. 1199'', accessed 29 September 2014 at Internet Archive.

External links

* {{authority control Villages in Kent City of Canterbury Civil parishes in Kent