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Biddenden Place
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England. This page is a list of these buildings in the district of Ashford in Kent Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr .... List of buildings See also * Grade I listed buildings in Ashford (borough) Notes External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashford Lists of Grade II* listed buildings in Kent Grade II* listed buildings in Kent * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grade II* Listed Building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland. The classification schemes differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland (see sections below). The term has also been used in the Republic of Ireland, where buildings are protected under the Planning and Development Act 2000, although the statutory term in Ireland is "Record of Protected Structures, protected structure". A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charing
Charing () is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, in south-east England. It includes the settlements of Charing Heath and Westwell Leacon. It is located at the foot of the North Downs and reaches up to the escarpment. In 2011 the parish had a population of 2,766. The Pilgrims' Way, the M20 motorway and Charing railway station (between London Victoria and Ashford International via Maidstone) serve the parish. History The name Charing first appears in 799 as ''Ciorrincg''. The name probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word ''cerring'', which means a bend in the road, or it may be from ''Ceorra-ingas'', which is Anglo-Saxon, meaning ''people of Ceorra''. The village is sited on the Pilgrims' Way from London to Canterbury, and is one day's walk from Canterbury. There are a number of old manors located around the village, such as Newlands (now a horse stud) and Pett Place. The village had a market recorded in 1285, and a fair recorded in the fifteenth ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newenden
Newenden is a small village and civil parish in area and population in the Ashford District of Kent, England. Geography The village is clustered together along the south slope and at the foot of the end of a tall escarpment by the River Rother, six miles (6.4 km) south-west of Tenterden on the A28. Newenden is located immediately north of the Rother which forms the county boundary with East Sussex. The humpback bridge of 1736 has recently been repaired. As the land at the very edge of the parish and lowest points is marshy, the narrow hill escarpment itself is known locally as Frogs Hill. History Lossenham Friary was established northeast of the village in around 1242 but it was burnt down in 1275 and no remains are visible. In March 1300, wardrobe accounts of King Edward I of England include a reference to a game called "creag" being played at Newenden by Prince Edward, then aged 15.Altham HS (1962) ''A History of Cricket, Volume 1'', p.20. George Allen & Unwin. It ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molash
Molash is a civil parish and village in Kent, South East England. It contains a small part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) - the North Downs - and is on the A252 road between Canterbury, Ashford and Faversham. Each of these is centred away. Geography Molash is a scattered semi-rural community characterised by its own farmland and a borderland forest called ''King's Wood'' almost all part of the higher, more wooded village, Godmersham, which was historically a royal hunting forest. The hunt was for deer, and a large herd of Fallow Deer still run free in the wood. The far south is well-marked and maintained as the Pilgrims' Way and North Downs Way pass through the forest as they follow the ridge of the North Downs. Amenities In the village, St. Peter's Church, built in the 13th century, with a Norman font and mostly 14th-century stained glass windows, was probably built on the site of an earlier church. The Yew trees in the churchyard are 2,000 years old. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mersham
Mersham () is a mostly agricultural large village and civil parish near Ashford in Kent, England. The population of the civil parish includes the area of Cheesman's Green now known as Finberry. History In the mid 19th century, John Marius Wilson's ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Mersham in the following terms: Until the early 20th century Mersham was for its majority a farming and orchard-tending community with close ties to the local market town of Ashford. The small village dates back to Saxon times and is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book''. The village was owned by the Archbishops of Canterbury for over 500 years. The Anglican church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist and is in the highest category of listed building, at Grade I. retrieved 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Chart
Little Chart is a village and civil parish, situated north-west of Ashford, Kent, Ashford in Kent, South East England. The parish lies south of the M20 motorway. Geography Within the parish boundaries is the linear settlement village centre by the old water mill and two smaller neighbourhoods less than 500m east: *Little Chart Forstal (the term ''forstal'' means the land in front of a farm and farmyard; cp Painters Forstal). Colloquially known as The Forstal, it is home to Little Chart Cricket Club. *Rooting Street The river flowing eastwards, passing a long mill pond and mill on its way, is the West Stour, Kent, West Stour. History The secular property that would have had the highest grading of listed building in the parish, Surrenden Park, half in Pluckley, was owned by the Sir Edward Dering, 1st Baronet, Dering family for over 400 years; the family estate covered about four square miles of Kent. Part of their property was Calehill Park, to the north. Neither property now e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenardington
Kenardington is a small nucleated village, clustered village and the centre of a relatively small rural civil parish of the same name, in the Ashford (borough), Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is centred southwest of Ashford, Kent, Ashford on the B2067 Hamstreet to Tenterden road. Geography Kenardington is on the edge of Romney Marsh, which its church (building), church of Mary, mother of Jesus, St Mary (with its tower dated 1170 AD) overlooks from a hilltop. The site of the church was once the scene of a battle, being stormed by the Danes (Germanic tribe), Danes in the 10th century and it stands on the site of what seems to have been a small Anglo-Saxons, Saxon fortification, fort, the remains of its earthworks now largely ploughed out of sight in fields used as arable land. Amenities and long distance tour routes Kenardington had a village shop/post office until a date in the 1980s since which the nearest shops and railway station are in Hamstreet approximately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hothfield
Hothfield is a village and civil parish in the Ashford Borough of Kent, England and is 3 miles north-west of Ashford on the A20. It is split in two by Hothfield Common. Etymology In Kent and East Sussex the Old English term ''hǣð'', which became ''heath'' in Modern English, was replaced by an unmutated form, ''hāð'', which, over time, evolved into ''hoath''. The village's name is therefore the old local dialect form of '' Heathfield''. Geography In the north west is Hothfield Common, 58 hectares (143 acres) of heathland and lowland valley bogs: a nature reserve managed by Kent Wildlife Trust, To the immediate south is the private parkland of the former Hothfield House. This area is crossed by the Greensand Way passing the church en route to Godinton House. A small part of the neighbourhood of Ram Lane is in the far northern point of the civil parish. Small tributaries of the West Stour rise in the parish. Amenities The village has a shop and post office with internal ATM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Halden
High Halden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is on the A28 road between Ashford and Tenterden, 3 miles (5 km) north of the latter town. The Tenterden suburb of St. Michaels is included. History Fifty tons of oak was used to build the tower and spire of the 10th–14th-century church, St Mary the Virgin, in 1470–1490. The church was restored in 1835 through funds donated by Mrs. Amy Kynaston Sutton, widow of the former vicar Evelyn Levett Sutton and sister and sole heiress of her brother Sir John Roger Kynaston, Bart. The large pub ''The Chequers on the Green'', circa 1620, is known to have been used by smugglers and the various gangs such as the "Hawkhurst and Cranbrook gangs" that were active in the mid-18th century. The parish is recorded in the Domesday Book and parts of a Norman manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastingleigh
Hastingleigh is a small civil parish centred on an escarpment of the North Downs, Kent Downs. The parish is three miles east of Wye, Kent, Wye and ten miles south of Canterbury, extending to the hill-scape of the Devil's Kneading Trough, on the North Downs Way with views towards Ashford, Kent, Ashford, Romney Marsh and the patchy remnant forest of The Weald (between the Greensand Ridge and South Downs). Amenities Common amenities are a garage and a public house. History Hastingleigh gets its name from the Haestingas, a Jutes, Jutish tribe that lived in the area. The village was in existence before the Domesday Book of 1086, and originally lay in the valley by the Church of England Parish church, church (Mary, mother of Jesus, St. Mary the Virgin) but following the Black Death, plague, the main settlement was relocated to its current position. The church is made of stone, in the Early English style, and has a tower containing one bell: there is a brass to John Halke, d.1604, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Chart With Singleton
Great Chart with Singleton is a civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The parish population is mostly concentrated in the ancient village of Great Chart and the modern Singleton housing development, both located in the eastern part of the parish, near the town of Ashford. Singleton accounts for about 80% population of the entire parish and is directly adjacent to Ashford. The village of Great Chart is located to the west of Singleton, about two miles (3.2 km) from the centre of Ashford. The remaining area of the parish is largely agricultural, with several farms. Chilmington Green is also included in the civil parish. The medieval parish church is dedicated to St Mary; there is also Grace Fellowship (an independent evangelical church and member of the FIEC Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) which meets 10:30am on Sunday mornings at the old Methodist church building formally known as St John's. The historic Godinton House and Gardens are lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egerton, Kent
Egerton is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is on the Greensand Ridge 9 miles (14.4 km) north of Ashford and stretches three miles south into a lower plain towards the West Stour. The parish is a relatively scattered rural one; the settlement of Stonebridge Green, adjacent to Egerton village centre, is also in the parish. Geography A narrow escarpment of dense Greensand forms the north of the parish where the largest single residential area is. The Greensand Way runs in part through the churchyard of St James's Church in the village. The northern slopes of this are two named woods. Most of the slopes and plain below to the south is used for mixed farming and hedgerows, with a lower proportion of woodland and wider buffer areas between settled farmstead clusters of homes. The ecclesiastical parish and civil parish overlap. Amenities A large pub, The George, is joined by the village's community centre the Millennium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
