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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The county of Kent has over 400 villages that range from very small to the size of a small town. The latter category includes those that designate themselves towns even though local government is by a civil parish council.
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 ...
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Boxley Abbey Barn is a large medieval barn in Sandling near Maidstone in Kent, England.. It is a remnant of the buildings of the mostly demolished Boxley Abbey.. The barn is 186 feet (57 m) long, aligned with its long axis roughly east–west, and was built in the late 13th or early 14th century.