Frittenden
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Frittenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the flood plain of one of the tributaries of the River Medway, 15 miles (24km) to the east of Tunbridge Wells: the village is three miles (4.8km) south of Headcorn. It is in a very rural part of Kent. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.
[edit] History
Roman remains have been found near an old Jutish track which ran through the area, along which pigs were driven into the forest of Andreadsweald. The village itself is named in a charter of 804, and the Anglo Saxon Chronicles of 839 relate that King Ethelwulf of Wessex gave the village land to St Augustines in Canterbury.
Lord Thomas Cromwell was given land in the village during the reign of King Henry VII.
Frittenden Church underwent extensive renovation in 1848 following a fire in the Church in 1790 when lightning struck the Church steeple.
Rumours of the Frittenden Treacle Mines were started by locals in the 1930s at the expense of gullible Londoners who would tour the area in their newly acquired motor cars, eager to visit the source of much of the world's treacle.
[edit] References
- Frittenden. VillageNet (2005). Retrieved on 2006-12-31. (source of History section)
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Ashurst • Benenden • Bidborough • Brenchley • Capel • Colliers Green • Cranbrook • Curtisden Green • Five Oak Green • Frittenden • Goudhurst • Goudhurst and Kilndown • Groombridge • Hartley • Hawkenbury • Hawkhurst • High Brooms • Horsmonden • Kilndown • Lamberhurst • Langton Green • Matfield • Old Groombridge • Paddock Wood • Park • Pembury • Rusthall • Sandhurst • Southborough • Speldhurst • Stone Cross • Sissinghurst • Swattenden |
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