Warehorne is a village and

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in the south of the Ashford Borough of

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, England. It is a scattered community centred on the

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road (B2067) around seven miles SSW of Ashford. The

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passes through the south of the civil parish. The first recorded mention of Warehorne is in an Anglo-Saxon charter of

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of 820 AD, where it is called ''Werehornas''. The

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of 1086 mentions Warehorne by name and states that a church existed there. The present church (St Matthews) shows no sign of Saxon or of Norman work. Warehorne was also where Reverend

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, the author of ''

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'', resided for a short while.

Geography

The settlement is in four main parts: *The main part of Warehorne is near the central village green. *The

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St Matthew's ChurchBritish listed buildings
retrieved 20 July 2013 and The Woolpack Inn are linked by a tunnel built by smugglers. *A second part of the village is known as the Leacon. This is sited at the crossroads on the B2067 and contains the former schoolhouse and now abandoned cricket field. *The remainder of mostly forested Warehorne (one third of the area and all in the northern half) contains the former World's Wonder pub and borders on the village of

Kenardington Kenardington is a small clustered village 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 on the B2067 Hamstreet to Tenterden road. ...

. *Part of the larger village of

falls within Warehorne's parish boundaries, enabling the village to have sufficient population to retain its own civil parish council. The

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links Warehorne with Hamstreet where the nearest shops and railway station can be found.

References

Villages in Kent Villages in the Borough of Ashford Civil parishes in Ashford, Kent {{Kent-geo-stub

Geography

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