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Snave is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Brenzett, in the Folkestone and Hythe district, in the county of Kent, England. It is on Romney Marsh in Kent , England centred close to the A2070 road 8 miles (13 km) south of Ashford .
Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. ... Snave: Although the church still stands ...
New Romney: Jim Field St Peter & St Paul Newchurch: Jim Field St Clement Old Romney: Jim Field St Mary Orlestone: Rod Whately, Patricia Fogden St Mary Magdalene Ruckinge: Rod Whately, Patricia Fogden St Dunstan Snargate: Keith Fazzani Snave Church Snave: Rod Whately, Patricia Fogden St Mary the Virgin St Mary in the Marsh: Jim Field All Saints ...
The village lies on the Romney Marsh, three miles (4.8 km) west of New Romney. The population of the civil parish includes the hamlet of Snave. The place-name 'Brenzett' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Brensete. The name is thought to mean 'burnt house' in Old English. [4]
Due to its size and space, St. George's is known as 'the Cathedral of Romney Marsh' and is mainly a 14th-century building with a seven bay arcade built in the late Decorated style of English architecture. The body of the church dates from around 1360 with the Perpendicular-style tower and west end being added about 100 years later.
Old Romney is a village and civil parish located in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent. Old Romney St. Clement is a parish dating back to ancient times and, as the name hints out, commenced the primitive settlement of Romney Marsh. It was, thus, the initial port of Romney which over time, stretched out along the Rother toward the sea ...
Robert de Auberville maintained connections with Robertsbridge Abbey, married the heiress of another of its patron families, and became settled at the western edge of Romney Marsh. Robertsbridge was originally founded in 1176 in the parish of Salehurst by Alvred de St. Martin, Sheriff of the Rape of Hastings, whose wife was Alice d'Aubigny ...
The village is located on the Romney Marsh, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Dymchurch. During the Second World War it was home to an RAF airfield, RAF Newchurch, that operated Hawker Tempest fighter aircraft under Wing Commander Roland Beamont which participated in the defence of the UK against the German V-1 flying bomb offensive of 1944.