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Faversham was established as a settlement before the Roman conquest. [4] The Romans established several towns in Kent including Faversham, with traffic through the Saxon Shore ports of Reculver, Richborough, Dover and Lympne converging on Canterbury before heading up Watling Street to London.
1550: Thomas Arden, who was murdered by his wife, Alice Arden, and her lover, the subject of the play Arden of Faversham [1] 1580: Richard Tylman, mayor, became Faversham's leading corn, wheat and malt exporter to London. [2] [3] 1588 John Castlock Sr; 1598 Anthony Deale; 1603 John Castlock Sr; 1605 John Haywarde; 1612 John Caslocke Jr; 1619 ...
The ruins of Faversham Abbey in 1722. Faversham Abbey was a Cluniac style monastery [ 1 ] immediately to the north-east of the town of Faversham , in north Kent , England. History
The church is all that remains of a previously much larger religious community around Faversham Abbey which was established in 1147 by King Stephen and dissolved by Henry VIII. Although the church itself was founded in the medieval era, the flying spire, known as a crown or corona spire, by which it is recognised dates to the 18th century - a ...
The 1916 explosion at Faversham was the worst in the history of the British explosives industry. At 14:20 on Sunday 2 April 1916, a huge explosion ripped through the gunpowder mill at Uplees, near Faversham, when a store of 200 tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT) was detonated following some empty sacks catching fire.
Richard Tylman of Faversham [1] [2] was an English food commodity dealer and exporter. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He served as Mayor of Faversham in 1580 during the reign of Elizabeth I of England , [ 1 ] at an ancient sea port established before the Roman conquest.
He wrote a number of papers and books. 1774 saw his Plantae Favershemiensis appear, 1777 his History of the Town and Port of Faversham. He also re-published the anonymous 16th century play Arden of Faversham, and was the first person to suggest that Shakespeare had a hand in writing it. He was elected to the Society of Antiquaries in 1755.
The memorial to the victims of the 1916 Faversham Munitions Explosion is a Grade II* listed building in Love Lane cemetery, in Faversham, Kent. Unveiled in 1917, it incorporates a granite Celtic cross and the granite structures surrounding a mass grave for 73 people killed by the Faversham explosion on 2 April 1916, and a nearby freestanding ...