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Hickmott was born at Boxley in Kent, the son of William and Mary Hickmott.His family ran The King's Arms public house in the village. He was taken on at Kent County Cricket Clubs Tonbridge Nursery in 1910 and played for Kent's Second XI from 1911. [1]
St Mary's and All Saints is a parish church in Boxley, Kent begun in the 13th century and with additions in the 14th and 15th centuries. The church was restored in the 1870s. The church was restored in the 1870s.
Remains of Boxley Abbey and North Downs. Boxley Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Sandling, near Maidstone in Kent, England. It sits at the foot of the North Downs and falls within the parish of Boxley. The abbey was founded around 1146, and dissolved in 1538. Its ruins can be found north of Maidstone, just northeast of the M20-A229 Sandling ...
Boxley village was used for scenes in the film version of Porridge. Within the parish are the Kent Life open-air museum, in Sandling, and Vinters Valley Nature Reserve. A 19th-century granary from Boxley was dismantled and re-erected at Kent Life. "Vinters" was a country house and home to the Whatman family until it was demolished in the 1950s. [3]
According to tradition, the Rood was brought to Boxley Abbey on a stray horse. Considering that a miracle, the monks of the abbey took the crucifix. William Lambarde, in his 1570 book, Perambulation of Kent, describes how the Rood was created by an English carpenter taken prisoner by the French in order to ransom himself. According to various ...
Sandling is a hamlet to the north of the town of Maidstone, Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs.It falls within the parish of Boxley.. Notable buildings in the hamlet include the remains of the twelfth century Boxley Abbey, the Hospitium or Boxley Abbey Barn, the fifteenth century gatehouse chapel of St Andrew's, the headquarters of the Kent Wildlife Trust at Tyland Barn, and Kent ...
This is a list of the kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent.. The regnal dates for the earlier kings are known only from Bede.Some kings are known mainly from charters, of which several are forgeries, while others have been subjected to tampering in order to reconcile them with the erroneous king lists of chroniclers, baffled by blanks, and confused by concurrent reigns and kings with ...
King's Arms, or Kings Arms or The King's Arms may refer to: Pubs. King's Arms, a popular pub name; Kings Arms, Hanwell, London, England;