Goodnestone, Dover

Goodnestone

Holy Cross Church from the Walled Garden of Goodnestone Park
Goodnestone
Goodnestone shown within Kent
Population 378 {2011 Census including Knowlton}[1]
OS grid reference TR255545
• London 60 mi (97 km) ESE
Civil parish
  • Goodnestone
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Canterbury
Postcode district CT3
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament

Goodnestone is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, England. The village is situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) east-southeast from the city of Canterbury, and 5 miles (8 km) west-southwest from Sandwich. The civil parish also contains the villages of Chillenden and Knowlton, and the hamlets of Rowling and Tickenhurst.

Goodnestone's Grade I listed parish church of the Holy Cross is in the Diocese and Archdeaconry of Canterbury and the Deanery of East Bridge.[2] The church is set adjacent to Goodnestone Park, and dates from the 12th century, with additions and alterations to the 19th. Hussey and Rickman rebuilt the nave, chancel, and south porch in 1839–41. Within the church chancel is a 1752 monument by Peter Scheemakers to Brook Bridges (died 1717), of Goodnestone Park.[3][4] A curate of Holy Cross was Herbert James, the father of the ghost story writer M. R. James who was born at Goodnestone Parsonage in 1862.

Goodnestone Park

At the south-west of the village is Goodnestone Park, a mansion with estate and gardens. Only the gardens are open to the public. The home was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges, 1st Baronet. Elizabeth, the daughter of the 1st Baronet's grandson Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet, married Jane Austen's brother. Austen visited her brother and Elizabeth at the estate regularly during their early married life.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Goodnestone", The Church of England. Retrieved 2 March 2015
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Cross (1070258)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Goodnestone, near Sandwich", Kent Archaeological Society. Retrieved 2 March 2015
  5. ↑ "History of Goodnestone", Goodnestone Park Gardens. Retrieved 2 March 2015
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