Boughton Monchelsea
Boughton Monchelsea | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Maidstone | |
Postcode district | ME17 | |
Police | Kent | |
Fire | Kent | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Boughton Monchelsea is a village and
Apparently not so civil - https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/they-killed-our-pet-peacock-with-a-catapult-it-was-an-evi-305783/
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History
The village name comes from a corruption of the name of the Norman family given the manor after the Conquest: Montchensie who held the manor until 1287[3] and the Anglo Saxon Boc Tun (Beech Tree settlement). The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Boltone, then Bouton, Bocton, and probably via Bocton de Montchensie to the current Boughton Monchelsea. The suffix using the family name seems to have been added in this area of Kent, possibly to differentiate multiple Boctuns.[4]
Some of the earliest history of Boughton Monchelsea is in the
The foundations of a Roman bathhouse were discovered in 1841 near Brishing Court, also a Roman villa at Brishing and a cemetery at Lockham. The quarries were worked extensively in Roman times and the villa and bathhouse could well have belonged to the quarry owner. Ragstone (a type of
St Peter's Church is located in the village.
Local amenities
The village has a
The 16th-century
A similar property at nearby Wierton Place has in recent years operated as a
Other historic houses include the Grade II listed Tanyard,[6] Brishing Court and Lewis Court.
The Cock Inn, dating back to 1568, is situated at the junction of Heath Road and Brishing Lane. Featured in the classic 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets starring Alec Guinness and Dennis Price, The Cock is a typical old English pub featuring inglenooks, exposed beams and low ceilings.
Notable residents
- Sir Master of the Rolls in Ireland, of Wierton House, which he bought from the Norton family, lived here in c. 1610-13.
- Thomas Musgrave Joy, painter, was born here in 1812.[7]
- Benjamin Remington, first-class cricketer
- Michael Remington, first-class cricketer
- William Tomkin (William Stephen Tomkin) was born in the village on 25 November 1860 to farmer William Stephen Tomkin (Snr) and Elizabeth Harrison.[8]
Business
The
References
- ^ "Civil Parish 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
- ^ Parish council website Archived April 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ISBN 1-85306-571-4
- ^ Village name origination
- ^ Boughton Monchelsea Place
- ^ "Tanyard". British Listed Buildings.
- ^ Suzanne Fagence Cooper, ‘Joy, Thomas Musgrave (1812–1866)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 5 Oct 2013
- ^ From family records, and Harrison of Ightham published by Oxford University Press in 1928
External links
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