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The Kingston Brooch, now World Museum Liverpool. The Kingston Brooch, an important piece of Anglo-Saxon jewellery dating from the 7th Century, was discovered in a tumulus on Kingston Downs in 1771 by the Reverend Bryan Faussett (1720–1776), then Rector of Kingston. It is 8 cm in diameter, made of gold, with garnet, blue glass and shell settings.
Civil Parish Civil Parish Population 2011 Area (km 2) 2011 Pre 1974 District District; Acol: 295 [1] 2.15 Eastry Rural District [2] Thanet: Acrise: 172 [3] 5.43 Elham Rural District [4] Folkestone and Hythe: Addington: 769 [5] 3.35 Malling Rural District [6] Tonbridge and Malling: Adisham: 645 [7] 11.82 Bridge-Blean Rural District [8 ...
Harbledown is a village in Kent, England, immediately west of Canterbury and contiguous with the city. At local government level the village is designated as a separate civil parish, that of Harbledown and Rough Common. The High Street is a conservation area with many listed buildings, including a tall and intact Georgian terrace on the south ...
Bridge is a village and civil parish near Canterbury in Kent, South East England. Bridge village is in the Nailbourne valley in a rural setting on the old Roman road, Watling Street, formerly the main road between London and Dover. The village itself is centred 2.5 miles south-east of the city of Canterbury.
It was established as a planned coalmining village in the 1920s and is on the A28 road between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. Work in the Kent Coalfield was the main source of employment in the village until the closure of the Kent colliery in the 1980s. The parish was formed on 1 April 2019 from parts of Sturry, Chislet and Westbere. [2]
Blean is a village and civil parish [2] in the Canterbury district of Kent, England.The civil parish is large and is mostly woodland, much of which is ancient woodland.The developed village within the parish is scattered along the road between Canterbury and Whitstable, in the middle of the Forest of Blean.
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. [2]According to the 2001 census it had a population of 868, increasing to 925 at the 2011 Census.
From the 12th century, Kingston was a chapelry of nearby Corfe Castle, served by a chapel of ease in the east of the village. [3] In 1833, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, demolished the old chapel and rebuilt it, at his own expense, on the same site to become the parish church.