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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]
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Francis was the son of George Wyatt and his Jane Finch (daughter of Sir Thomas Finch). [5] He was born at Boxley Manor in Kent, and attended St Mary Hall, Oxford, (from 1 July 1603) and Gray's Inn (1604).
founded c.633 by Ethelburga, daughter of Æthelberht, King of Kent, on the site of a possibly Roman villa; monks and nuns refounded before 736 under Abbot Cuthbert; ravaged in raids by the Danes, but continued to after 964 (the time of Archbishop Dunstan); Saxon church, rebuilt c.965, incorporating remains of abbey church Liming Abbey [59] [60
Faversham and Mid Kent is a constituency [n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. Since 2015 , the seat has been held by Helen Whately of the Conservative Party . [ n 2 ]