Hernhill
Hernhill | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Faversham | |
Postcode district | ME13 | |
Dialling code | 01227 | |
Police | Kent | |
Fire | Kent | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament | ||
Hernhill is a village and civil parish between Faversham and Canterbury in southeast England. The parish includes the hamlets of Crockham, Dargate, The Fostall, Lamberhurst, Oakwell, Staple Street, Thread, Waterham and Wey Street.
Churches
During the
St Michael's Church
In about 1450 the church was replaced again, this time with a stone and flint church building on the same site. This 15th-century structure, dedicated to St Michael, incorporated some of the masonry from the 12th-century building. St Michael's is
The churchyard contains a monument to parishioners killed in the nearby
Hamlets
Dargate
Dargate | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Faversham | |
Postcode district | ME13 | |
Dialling code | 01227 | |
Police | Kent | |
Fire | Kent | |
Ambulance | South East Coast | |
UK Parliament |
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Dargate is a hamlet near Faversham in Kent, England. It consists of mainly farmland containing of fruit trees and shrubs, and hops in the past. It is also on the edge of Blean Woods. It has 42 houses.
In April 1999 Dargate was made into a conservation area, which means that it is protected. This means that any building or development has to be approved and must be the same as how they imagined Dargate to look historically. In the centre of the hamlet is the Dove Public House.
The name Plumpudding Lane came from the fruit trees and the desert of the same name. When the new Thanet Way dual carriageway was built, it split the hamlets of Hernhill.
Dargate had a post office which closed in 1990. There was also regular deliveries by a milk float and a weekly visit from a coal man and the Library van. All of which have now stopped. Oakleigh Manor Landscape design used to be a Motor museum and Belvedere farm (originally Dargate Farm) had a farm shop which sold amenities, fruit and vegetables as well as Easter Eggs and Christmas gifts.
When Sir William Courtney came to Hernhill in 1838, he persuaded 44 people in Hernhill and Dunkirk to Revolt, which has been described as ‘The Last Rising of The Agricultural Labourers’. They killed a policeman and then six of them were then shot, including Courtney or John Tom which was his real name, in woods nearby. They are buried in Hernhill church. A lot of the rioters came from Dargate. Goodwin ran the Dove and John Spratt lived in what is now called ‘The Old Post Office.’
Waterham
Waterham is a hamlet in the borough of Swale in Kent, England.
In popular culture
Author Russell Hoban repurposes Dargate as "Dog Et" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.[4]
References
- ^ "Civil Ward population 2015". Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ^ St Michael, Hernhill Faversham town website Archived 2007-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 2007-05-06; also 2009-06-15
- ^ History of Dunkirk Faversham town website Archived 2007-05-04 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 2009-06-15
- ^ "Places - Riddley Walker Annotations". Errorbar. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
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