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Patrixbourne is a rural
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village south-east of
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in Kent. It is mostly taken up by agricultural hills and along with almost contiguous Bekesbourne to the north it makes up the
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of
Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne Bekesbourne-with-Patrixbourne is a civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is located 4 miles south-east of Canterbury. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 868, increasing to 925 at the 2011 Census. ...
in the City of Canterbury district.


Geography

The village is about 3 miles from the city centre along the A2 road to Dover, on a ford over the River Nailbourne.


History

In the Domesday Book Patrixbourne was held by Bishop Odo, but in 1200 it was transferred to a cell of an abbey in Normandy and thereafter to
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. After the Reformation it passed to the Says and then the Cheyneys. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery is on the Bifrons estate or Bifron's Park in the south of the village. Bifrons took its name from a name for the Roman god Janus ("the two-faced") as well as having two wings and was built in the early 1600s by John Bargrave (Bargar) the Elder, brother of Isaac Bargrave Dean of Canterbury. The Bargrave family were staunchly
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during the Civil War and Bargrave's son John sold the estate in 1661 as he resumed his ecclesiastical career after the Restoration. In September 1694 the estate was bought by Sandwich MP John Taylor. It was remodelled by Edward Taylor in 1770 and in 1820 became the seat of
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, last mistress of George IV. The house was demolished in the late 1940s. The parish church dates from the late Norman period and is dedicated to St Mary. It is built of flint and
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imported from France and contains 16th and 17th century stained glass from Switzerland.


Amenities

Higham Park is a large neoclassical mansion, once the home of eccentric racing driver Count Louis Zborowski. His giant-engined "
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" cars were built there, as was Babs, the vehicle used in
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's attempt for the land speed record at
Pendine Sands Pendine Sands ( cy, Traeth Pentywyn) is a beach on the shores of Carmarthen Bay on the south coast of Wales. It stretches west to east from Gilman Point to Laugharne Sands. The village of Pendine ( cy, Pentywyn, link=no) is close to the west ...
in 1927. It is in the far south of the parish, so its nearest amenities are either those of Patrixbourne or of
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Notes on the village
Villages in Kent City of Canterbury {{Kent-geo-stub