Pembury
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Pembury is a large village in the county of Kent in the south-east of England, UK, with a population of around 6000. It lies just to the north of the town of Tunbridge Wells. There have been settlements in the area since at least Saxon times in the 1000s, the name 'Pembury' deriving from the Saxon 'Pepingburh' or 'Pepingeberia'. The village church is estimated to have been at least initially built in the 11th century.
Pembury was the site of a British POW camp in the Second World War.
The British Olympic athlete Kelly Holmes was born at Pembury Hospital.
[edit] External links
- Pembury Village News Website
- Pembury Parish Council
- The Official Pembury School Website
- Pembury (The Ghost of Hawkwell)
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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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