Hoath is a semi-rural village and

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in the City of Canterbury

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. The

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of Knaves Ash, Maypole, Ford, Old Tree, Shelvingford and Stoney Acre are included in the parish.

History

Hoath was part of the estate granted by King

Ecgberht of Kent Ecgberht I (also spelled Egbert) (died 4 July 673) was a King of Kent (664-673), succeeding his father Eorcenberht. He may have still been a child when he became king following his father's death on 14 July 664, because his mother Seaxburh was ...

in 669 for the foundation of the church at Reculver, and remained part of that estate when King

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granted it to Archbishop

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in 949. A

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either in or connected with Hoath is recorded in the 14th century, with John Gardener as the chaplain, successor to Henry atte Were. On 9 December 1410 Archbishop

Thomas Arundel Thomas Arundel (1353 – 19 February 1414) was an English clergyman who served as Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of York during the reign of Richard II, as well as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken op ...

dedicated a chapel to the Virgin Mary and consecrated a burial-ground at Hoath at the request of the inhabitants and his tenants there who, led by Sir

Nicholas Haute Sir Nicholas Haute (20 September 1357 – c. 1415), of Wadden Hall (Wadenhall) in Petham and Waltham, with manors extending into Lower Hardres, Elmsted and Bishopsbourne, in the county of Kent, was an English knight, landowner and politician. ...

, Peter Halle Esq. and Richard Hauk, then chaplain of the chantry, promised to observe his ordinances. The hamlet of Ford was the location of

Ford Palace Ford Palace was a residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury at Ford, about north-east of Canterbury and south-east of Herne Bay, in the parish of Hoath in the county of Kent in south-eastern England. The earliest structural evidence for t ...

, a residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury from at least the 14th century to the 17th. Robert Hunt, chaplain to the expedition that founded the first successful English colony in the

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, at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, was born in Hoath in the late 1560s or early 1570s.

Amenities

Within Hoath there is a small

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, a camp site called Southview Camping, a public house named the Prince of Wales, and a village hall. A late medieval church, Holy Cross, stands on Church Road, and was originally a

chapel-of-ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently. Often a chapel of ease is deliberately bu ...

for St Mary's Church, Reculver. The building was renovated by Joseph Clarke between 1866 and 1867, when a north aisle was added. Hoath has a small general aviation airfield west of the village near Maypole.

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External links

www.hoath.org
- village website with news, upcoming events and a history of the village Villages in Kent City of Canterbury Civil parishes in Kent {{Kent-geo-stub