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Wingham / ˈ w ɪ ŋ əm / is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village lies along the ancient coastal road, now the A257, from Richborough to London , and is close to Canterbury .
The Palmer Baronetcy, of Wingham in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1621 for Thomas Palmer. [1] The third Baronet was High Sheriff of Kent in 1691. The fourth Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Kent and Rochester. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1838.
Thomas Palmer was the third son of Sir Henry Palmer of Wingham, Kent, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Richard Windebank of Guisnes, and was nephew of Sir Thomas Palmer (died 1553) and Abbess Katherine Palmer of Syon Abbey. [2] He was High Sheriff of Kent in 1595, and in the following year went on the expedition to Cadiz, when he was knighted.
The Old Canonry, Wingham. Possibly one of the residences for the Canons of the College. In 1282 a College of Canons was founded by John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury. The college originally consisted of a Provost and six canons, and they used St Mary's as their church.
Arms of Palmer of Wingham: Or, two bars gules each charged with three trefoils of the first in chief a greyhound currant sable [1] Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham (5 July 1682 – 8 November 1723) was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1723.
In the 1870s, Preston-next-Wingham was described as: "A village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands on a rising-ground, above the marshes of the Little Stour river, 1½mile S E of Grove-Ferry r. station, and 6¾ E N E of Canterbury; bears the name of Preston-street, and has a postal pillar-box under Wingham". [3]
After his marriage William lived at his wife's manor of Preston-next-Wingham, Kent. Sir William de Leybourne served as a military commander under the English kings Edward I [6] and Edward II. In 1265, for his services during the Second Barons' War, he was given lands taken from Simon de Montfort's rebels.
Wingham Town railway station was a railway station on the East Kent Light Railway, which served the village of Wingham. It opened in 1920 and closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October 1948. There was a loop when the station first opened, but this was removed when the line was extended to the Canterbury Road station in 1925. [2]