Kenardington is a small
clustered village
A ''Haufendorf'' is an enclosed village with irregular plots of land and farms of greatly differing scale, usually surrounded by a stockade fence (German: ''Ortsetter''). They are typically found in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, whence the nam ...
and the centre of a relatively small rural
civil parish of the same name, in the
Ashford District of
Kent, England. The village is centred southwest of
Ashford Ashford may refer to:
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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on the B2067
Hamstreet to
Tenterden road.
Geography
Kenardington is on the edge of
Romney Marsh, which its
church of
St Mary
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(with its tower dated 1170 AD) overlooks from a hilltop. The site of the church was once the scene of a
battle, being stormed by the
Danes
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Danes generally regard t ...
in the 10th century and it stands on the site of what seems to have been a small
Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
fort, the remains of its earthworks now largely
plough
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ed out of sight in fields used as
arable land.
Amenities and long distance tour routes
Kenardington had a village shop/post office until a date in the 1980s since which the nearest shops and railway station are in
Hamstreet approximately two miles away. The south-west of the parish is a wooded public park and has picnic areas.
The
Saxon Shore Way and
Royal Military Canal pass through.
References
External links
Village websiteNotes on facilities, historyStatistical civil parish overview - map
Villages in Kent
Villages in the Borough of Ashford
Civil parishes in Ashford, Kent
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