Oxen Hoath manor house dates from the C16 and in 1621, when in the ownership of Thomas Choune, a survey was made which shows the house approached via a grand gateway to the west. By 1719 the property had passed into the ownership of Leonard Bartholomew and was illustrated by Badeslade who records a multi-gabled house standing in a formal setting approached via a double avenue to the south (Badeslade 1719, published 1750s). The house and grounds were again remodelled at the end of the C18 when the architect John Meadows was commissioned by the then owner Sir William Geary to update the mansion. A contemporary engraving by W Green, from a painting by J G Wood (see Hall 1993) shows the Georgian house in an informal setting of sweeping grass lawns. The property remained in the Geary family into the C19 and in c 1846 Sir William R P Geary brought in Anthony Salvin (1799-1881) to restyle the house in the French fashion, and William Andrews Nesfield (1793-1881) to lay out a formal garden. One of Nesfield's plans for a parterre and rosarium, signed and dated 1847, has survived; this shows that the southern part of the gardens survives almost unchanged today (2001). In the C20 the estate was sold into divided private ownership.

 

DESCRIPTION

 

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING Oxen Hoath occupies a rural location c 7km north-east of Tonbridge and c 15km south-west of Maidstone. The c 110ha site is bounded to the east by farmland, to the south-west by Carpenters Lane, to the west by Oxenhoath Road, and to the north by farmland and woodland where the northern tip of the site meets Gover Hill. The ground falls significantly from north to south, the house standing on the dip-slope of the greensand ridge overlooking the Weald of Kent.

 

ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES The house can be approached from all the main boundaries. From the north, a drive leads from Gover Hill, past a lodge, down the track of an old avenue, formerly planted with a double row of Cornish elms and terminating with a row of ancient limes, concluding with a gateway flanked by stone gate piers (listed grade II) c 100m north-west of the house. The eastern drive commences at East Lodge, on the corner of Forge Lane and Matthews Lane c 700m north-east of the house, and runs west between newly planted (late C20) walnuts, replacing a double row of limes lost in the 1987 storm. The present (2001) main approach is from the west, the drive branching off from Oxenhoath Road at the mid C19 West Lodge (listed grade II), c 400m south-west of the house, leading to C18 gate piers (listed grade II) at the commencement of the Cedar Avenue where the latter bends north to meet the north drive before crossing undulating lawn, edged by a bank planted with shrubs and specimen trees and bordered by mature planes and limes, to the west front of the house. From the bend in Cedar Avenue the track of the old south drive descends across the park and the lower flat fields towards Hadlow, ending at the junction of Carpenters Lane and Common Road. The Cedar Avenue is flanked by a series of iron gates of a variety of dates and provenance. The elaborate wrought-iron gates and overthrow (listed grade II) to the main entrance leading to the west front are said to have been bought in the late C18 by Sir William Geary from the pre-fire Palace of Westminster.

 

PRINCIPAL BUILDING Oxen Hoath (listed grade II*) is a large country house built of coursed rubble stone under a hipped slate roof. The three-storey building has central projecting bays on the west front with a central arched doorway and balcony above. The garden front to the south has eight bays with a bay tower on the south-east corner and a one-storey billiard room extension to the east, added by Burn and McVicar Anderson in 1878. The house contains remains of a late C16 building on a site that had been occupied earlier. It was extensively remodelled after 1757 and again in c 1846 by Anthony Salvin.

 

Some 100m to the south-west of Oxen Hoath stands the Dower House (listed grade II), a red-brick and tile building of C17 origin, possibly part of the outbuildings associated with the early C17 main house.

 

GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS The gardens at Oxen Hoath lie to the west and south of the house. The south gardens occupy the site of the early C18 walled enclosures although these had been removed some time before the mid C19 gardens were laid out. Grass terraces lead south down to a formal parterre which retains much of the planting and decoration given it by William Andrews Nesfield in the late 1840s, as well as the original basic design with scrollwork beds outlined with cast-stone kerbing originally set in white gravel and red-brick dust. There are further urns of cast stone on the parterre and adjacent principal paths, and the upper terraces to the east of the parterre support yew topiary. The southern end of the top terrace is extended southwards as a viewing bastion. While the two Yucca gloriosa flanking the main north/south axis of the parterre design have survived, as have the clipped yews, the row of standard rhododendron set in white pebbles which ran along the west and east sides of the main gardens have gone (Hall 1993). The low, stone retaining south wall dividing the gardens from the park continues to the east, separating the formal gardens from the C20 tennis courts and an extension of the pleasure ground, in the south-east corner of which stands a hexagonal thatched summerhouse.

 

The terrace walk below the south front of the house extends east, up a flight of steps, past a plane tree which appears to pre-date the mid C19 layout of the gardens, to a wrought-iron gate set in an C18 ornamental stone gateway (listed grade II) through the eastern wall. Immediately to the east of the house, and north of this cross-walk, was the site of Nesfield's rosarium, largely removed when the billiard room was built in 1878, leaving only Nesfield's bordering terraces and walls.

 

The walk along the south side of the parterre continues westwards between mature plane and lime, forming a link with the Dower House, the Cedar Avenue, and the avenue to the kitchen garden beyond. Flanking this south walk is a short formal avenue of juniper and round-headed clipped yews, surrounded by informally planted specimen trees and shrubs. The gates (listed grade II) to the south of the Dower House, leading from the south garden, are reputed to have come from Eltham Palace (qv) and are of late C17 or early C18 date.

 

On the west side of the Cedar Avenue the path, ornamented with round-headed clipped standard Portugal laurels and recently planted with Irish pyramid juniper, continues on a stone causeway to the cast-iron gate, the 'Auvergne Gate'. It bears the monogram of Sir William Geary, and was brought from France in the 1920s to be hung within an ornamental surround at the entrance to the kitchen garden. Through the gate is a stone-walled enclosure, laid out as a flower garden which is divided off from the main walled area. To the north of the stone causeway walk lies the Dell Garden, planted up as an informal pleasure ground in the C19. To the west of the entrance to the Dell Garden is a further wrought-iron gateway (listed grade II) of mixed origin.

 

In the Badeslade engraving of 1719 (Badeslade 1750s) the area below the west front, now (2001) occupied by lawns and shrubs, is shown as two walled gardens. A stone table top, dated 1724, which stands on a knoll seems to be a relic from the banqueting house illustrated by Badeslade. The table top bears a Latin inscription which, translated, reads: 'For wine sometimes, for friendship always'. A gate through a balustraded wall along the south side of the west front provides access to the main formal gardens below the south front.

 

PARK The park lies to the north, east, and south of the house, the major area being that to the south, stretching down as far as Carpenters Lane. Forming part of the view from the south front is the serpentine lake, located c 300m south of the house, which runs from west to east across the centre of the south park and is crossed in the centre by a stone bridge. The lake was formed from an existing oval-shaped canal shown on a plan of 1750, enlarged at some point during the later C18, and the house is designed to make full use of the views. The great gothic folly of Hadlow Tower forms an eyecatcher in the distant rural landscape.

 

KITCHEN GARDEN The brick-walled C18 kitchen garden lies c 300m south-west of the house. It has a central pool and whitewash on the walls indicates the position of glass ranges, only a small portion of which survive. The main orchard area is outside the wall to the south.

For the half-marathon (21.1 km) results, here are the local (Ottawa & area) participants -- sorted by cities and first name -- in the September 18, 2011, Canada Army Run held in Ottawa, Ontario. There were 6,397 runners in the 21.1 km race, an increase of about 900 runners compared to 2010.

 

Click here and enter the bib numbers (see below) for the full individual race results. Thank-you to Sportstats.

 

* Also, click here for race photos by Brightroom™, Inc.

 

Lists of local half-marathon race participants:

 

Part A. Ottawa, A-L (see below)

Part B. Ottawa, M-Z (Click here.)

Part C. Other Communities (Alexandria to Magog) (Click here.)

Part D. Other Communities (Maitland to Woodlawn) (Click here.)

 

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Part A: (Ottawa, bib number & name)

 

556…Aaron Auyeung

5174…Aaron Guzman

1386…Abbey Saunders

1387…Abdulhak Nagy

5177…Achint Sandhu

1397…Adam Dawe

5179…Adam Desjarlais

1390…Adam Hamilton

3743…Adam Harris

1394…Adam Orton

34107…Adam Struthers

1389…Adam Welcher

7617…Adria Patzer

3427…Adriana Zeleney

3404…Adrienne Mertin

1400…Ahsan Ahmed

572…Al Okroy

5998…Al Stewart

3352…Alain D'arbelles

147…Alain Gauvin

1404…Alain Gendron

116…Alain Therriault

588…Alain Vermette

867…Alan Chaffe

5055…Alan Chan

679…Alan Yeadon

5184…Alana Fong

3750…Alana Morin

1410…Alec Forbes

3752…Alec Wong

1415…Alex Bota

1416…Alex Burnet

5187…Alex Eloise

6103…Alex Havers

3755…Alex Ho

426…Alex Lavoie

5060…Alex Renwick

3758…Alexander Gribbon

6542…Alexandra Averbeck

4978…Alexandra Bushell

1419…Alexandra Gruca-Macaulay

1422…Alexandra Skupek

6105…Alexandra Vallianatos

5189…Alexandra Weirich

1425…Alexis Bosse

3764…Alexis Bunny Conrad

3765…Alice Donachey

6089…Alice Kwong

5193…Alice Retik

6547…Alicia Ch Nier

1427…Alison James

6548…Alison Mccray

3767…Alison Salhany

1021…Allan Crisford

3513…Allan Gauci

1430…Allan O'connor

6551…Allison Grimsey

1434…Allison Lainey

6107…Allison Mackenzie

3639…Allison Meek

6552…Allison Sephton

1440…Alp Oran

3772…Alyson Byrne

5202…Amanda Amaratunga

3781…Amanda Brown

3779…Amanda Macfarlane

5200…Amanda Robertson-Smiderle

5206…Amanda Sully

1339…Amanda Van Beinum

3776…Amanda Watson

3786…Amin Mirzaee

3787…Ammar Riaz

1447…Amy Hiltz

5208…Amy Hum

1446…Amy Plint

1452…Anabela Barreira

3472…Anais Lussier-Labelle

6564…Andr E Morin

1461…Andr St-Laurent

6116…Andre Boivin

1459…Andre Charbonneau

901…Andre Dion

1312…Andre Hiotis

1454…Andre Pharand

1465…Andrea English

1466…Andrea Ferrari

3797…Andrea Fitzgerald

1234…Andrea Holland

6562…Andrea Lau

1306…Andrea Letham

1090…Andrea Matthews

5212…Andrea Mccaffrey

7385…Andrea Mills

5214…Andrea Pietila

3796…Andrea Seaby

3798…Andree Deslauriers

1223…Andree-Anne Girard

7620…Andree-Anne Lamothe

155…Andrew Archibald

3802…Andrew Bellamy

7434…Andrew Buzza

3800…Andrew Chatham

16298…Andrew Colautti

1481…Andrew Feltham

1475…Andrew Ha

3357…Andrew Keleher

156…Andrew Leikucs

1470…Andrew Lenz

3806…Andrew Marble

976…Andrew Mendes

603…Andrew Ng

3803…Andrew Niefer

889…Andrew Parker

7621…Andrew Patzer

1482…Andrew Spurrell

3417…Andrew Staples

1473…Andrew Weekes

1490…Andy Wilson

3575…Angela Hardy

931…Angela Koskie

7397…Angela Lamb

6572…Angela Marcantonio

1121…Angela Scanlon

3809…Angela Steele

3810…Angelo Garcia

5111…Angy Dauth

5226…Anick De Sousa

762…Anika Clark

825…Anita Choquette

7438…Anita Portier

1145…Ann Gregory

6007…Ann Lanthier

3448…Ann Marie Fyfe

7440…Ann Mccaffrey

1497…Ann Piche

5229…Ann Walton

3817…Anna Aylett

1500…Anna Hardy

1289…Anna Hoefnagels

6576…Anna Pham

1502…Anne Bailliu

7624…Anne Biscope

6578…Anne Bowker

3820…Anne Francis

1504…Anne Houston

3449…Anne Mcnamara

1236…Anne Pearce

3821…Anne Strangelove

3826…Anne-Marie Desormeaux

1505…Anne-Marie Fraser

7625…Annie Corriveau

6583…Annie Oger

1507…Annie Plouffe

695…Ann-Marie Reid

5113…Anthea Garrick Menard

1510…Antoine Guimond

1511…Antonio Zappavigna

6123…Antoun Rahal

5232…Anya Pavlova

6588…April Dickson

158…Arif Aziz

4948…Arleigh Romyn

1515…Arthur King

1516…Arthur Winnik

6589…Ashlee Linton

3833…Ashley Brennan

1517…Ashley Browne

6590…Ashley Butcher

1518…Ashley Mulroney

5233…Ashley Proceviat

34117…Ashley Towns

693…Audrey Taylor

1523…Avdo Nalic

527…Aveta Graham

1524…Aydin Mirzaee

6593…Azhra Mcmahon

1526…Barbara Campbell

7428…Barbara Campbell

3461…Barbara Dundas

5062…Barbara Jovaisas

6034…Barbara Mingie

3839…Barnabas Fung

1529…Barry Le Grys

640…Bart Bakker

159…Ben Howe

406…Ben Lawson

6598…Ben Tobali

6601…Beno T Pag

3846…Benoit Goulet

905…Ben-Zion Caspi

1029…Bernard Charlebois

1540…Bernard St-Laurent

1542…Bernie Car

5242…Bernita Butler

727…Betty Bulman

3847…Betty-Jane Horton

6136…Bev Denison

3851…Bill Horne

908…Bill Mceachern

6604…Bill Salminen

6605…Bill Wilson

3852…Billie Hillis

5247…Blair Malcolm

3515…Blake Davis

161…Blake Poirier

6137…Bob Fraser

3585…Bob Mcculloch

927…Bob Mcgillivray

5248…Bob Moquin

6608…Bob Muise

3856…Bob Stevenson

5250…Bonita Martin

6610…Bonnie Mechefske

3859…Bonnie Nelson

5252…Brad Austin

7429…Brad Lobregt

5253…Bradley Fleming

1559…Brandon King

4976…Brenda Bethune

5258…Brenda Jenkins

1562…Brenda Makowichuk

6612…Brenda Primmer

1563…Brenda Quinlan

5256…Brenda Ryan

6525…Brent Burton

1568…Brent Edwards

1567…Brent Russell

1566…Brent Wakeford

3868…Brian Arscott

1580…Brian Berube

5262…Brian Bowering

3680…Brian Davis

1584…Brian Double

428…Brian Harding

1583…Brian Mcneill

3867…Brian Nolet

100…Brian O'higgins

1571…Brian Radey

1575…Brian Rolfe

3431…Brian Sanford

658…Brian Senecal

1572…Brian Tweedie

3346…Brianna Saunders

1585…Brianne Bota

5266…Brigit Jessup

1586…Brigitte Cossette

8…Brigitte Jackstien

1587…Brigitte Joly

6621…Brigitte Martel

5267…Brittany Gallant

1588…Brittany Hinds

1589…Brittany Leblanc

1590…Britt-Mari Sykes

3872…Brodie Fraser

6622…Bronwyn Burke

620…Bruce Jackson

3874…Bruce Moquin

1596…Bruce Moran

6094…Bruce Muise

1595…Bruce Squires

996…Bryan Morris

1599…Bryan Norrie

1597…Bryan Sirois

6145…Bryan Wright

1056…Byron Holland

7630…C Line Beaudoin

7450…C Line Houle

892…Caitlin O'higgins

6147…Caitlin Viitamaki

165…Caleb Walker

3878…Calvin Mak

3879…Calvin Reid

3573…Cameron Beare

3691…Cameron Fraser

1606…Candice Dandurand

343…Candice Hilder

1607…Cara Thibault

6150…Cari Minogue

1608…Carl Marcotte

3882…Carla Harding

1611…Carmen Vierula

1613…Carol Bennett

6154…Carol Doiron

3887…Carole Barabe

3886…Carole Chenard

1197…Carole Harrison

3888…Carolene Preap

3889…Caroline Glynn

5277…Carolyn Brown

5276…Carolyn Phillips

5278…Carolyn Tapp

3897…Carrie Johnston

6156…Carrie Roussin

6641…Carrie Stewart

3899…Carrie-Ann Pierce

3901…Casey Carswell

3900…Casey Thomas

990…Cassandra Chouinard

5997…Cassandra Lively

6074…Cassie Hodgins

7327…Catherine Beacher

1040…Catherine Caron

3678…Catherine Khordoc

3904…Catherine Lacroix

3906…Catherine Milley

5286…Catherine Nesbitt

903…Catherine Peirce

6645…Catherine St. Louis

5288…Catherine Yarker

1630…Cathlin Antonello

1632…Cathy Blanchard

3911…Cathy Gloade

3627…Cathy Takahashi

3913…Celeste Morley

172…Chad Wilson

5091…Chanel Huard

1224…Chantal Campbell

19…Chantal Evans

1637…Chantal Fallows

6651…Chantal Lacroix

3920…Chantal Lanthier

5294…Chantal Nault

1175…Chantal Pilon

7451…Chantal Proulx

5296…Charbel Choueiri

6653…Charlene Mathias

1644…Charlie Rate

6162…Chelsea Bull

6029…Chelsea Macdonell

3932…Cherinet Seid

3937…Cheryl Bateman

3516…Cheryl Birker

1649…Cheryl Giles

3936…Cheryl Kardish-Levitan

3935…Cheryl Mcgrath

5162…Cheryl Mcintyre

7453…Cheryl Perry

5300…Cheryl Shore

5301…Chiara Andrisani

6023…Chloe Macdonell

3946…Chris Bark

1659…Chris Bartholomew

3947…Chris Best

1664…Chris Bowen

130…Chris Bright

6512…Chris Campbell

1667…Chris Davies

6658…Chris Gardner

5306…Chris Garrioch

6075…Chris Hale

1653…Chris Hayes

1663…Chris Henderson

3944…Chris Hill

6659…Chris Liebenberg

3948…Chris Macdonald

5304…Chris Minogue

871…Chris Moule

906…Chris Nestor

1657…Chris Phelan

3954…Chris Rath

3945…Chris Reid

5074…Chris Renwick

5007…Chris Salter

1660…Chris Sliwka

5302…Chris Spiteri

1658…Chris Steele

6661…Chris Sutherland

6662…Chris Weicker

7454…Chris White

7455…Chris Wojcik

6664…Christene White

1674…Christian Boucher

99…Christian Del Valle

1672…Christian Maillet

6666…Christiane Laperri Re

6667…Christie Swann

6668…Christina Gubbels

6669…Christina Jutzi

1676…Christina Romanin

3964…Christine Atwood

3958…Christine Benne

7457…Christine Fortier

778…Christine Geraghty

1681…Christine Halliburton

3673…Christine Hodge

5320…Christine Leung

5315…Christine Marshall

3962…Christine Mayer

1684…Christine Racicot

3361…Christine Rivas

4961…Christine Robbins

3356…Christine Stilborne

1678…Christine Turmaine

934…Christopher Barber

1697…Christopher Cook

3967…Christopher Elliott

528…Christopher Fennell

1698…Christopher Hassall

1703…Christopher Jones

1700…Christopher Linton

3494…Cindy Maraj

6675…Cindy Mcalpine

1705…Cindy Qu

1709…Cindy Scott

1706…Cindy Warwick

5323…Claire Lehan

1713…Claire Millington

1173…Claire Samson

3503…Claude B Land

6680…Claude Papineau

791…Claudia Rutherford

3977…Clemence Allard

1721…Cliff Martin

1725…Colette Kenney

1724…Colette Nault

3978…Colin Baril

1730…Colin Kiviaho

1729…Colin Langille

1728…Colin Martel

1726…Colin Welburn

3563…Colleen Bigelow

1731…Colleen Crane

5992…Connie Acelvari

5330…Connor Grimes

3985…Conrad Kupniewski

816…Constance Craig

1734…Corey Crosby

1002…Cori Dinovitzer

6686…Corinna Simmons

6687…Cory Martin

1027…Court Curry

1737…Courtney Henderson

6688…Courtney Kalbfleisan

3988…Courtney Watson

1739…Craig Bascombe

1743…Craig Blair

106…Craig Carney

1745…Craig Crant

5004…Craig Mantle

3990…Craig Roberts

3383…Craig Rosario

4918…Craig Williams

1747…Cristina Santostefano

1749…Crystal Gottfried

3993…Currie David

1329…Curtis Mcgrath

1751…Cyndi Kennedy

5336…Cynthia Desnoyers

5337…Cynthia Larue

1758…Dale Pike

3999…Dalelle Mensour

1764…Dan Cowan

1762…Dan Dalby

6563…Dan Mcglinchey

4002…Dan Mclaughlin

4000…Dan Moore

1766…Dan Pihlainen

4001…Dan Rolfe

4003…Dan Seekings

6076…Dan Shea

1358…Dan St-Arnaud

178…Dan Steeves

16292…Dan Ziniuk

4005…Dana Van Gulik

1769…Dani Gaucher

7465…Danica Seguin

5340…Daniel Albahary

1777…Daniel Burke

499…Daniel Charlebois

4008…Daniel Gosselin

3595…Daniel Guerrette

5338…Daniel Leonard

4006…Daniel Minor

352…Daniel Pharand

1783…Daniel Reifler

4007…Daniel Suh

1776…Daniel Vincent

6699…Danielle Cote

3648…Danielle Halloran

5346…Danielle Hoegy

7467…Danielle Simard

1785…Danielle Wehbi

1786…Danny Gagne

1788…Darcia Bunny Kmet

6037…Darlene Hackett

697…Darlene Joyce

6707…Darlene Sabourin

6708…Darrell Williams

6503…Darren Boomer

1792…Darren Uchman

5028…Darryl Bilodeau

181…Daryl Howes

1112…Dave Bergeron

1806…Dave Bossmin

1302…Dave Goods

182…Dave Kary

1801…Dave Langlois

1804…Dave Morin-Pelletier

111…Dave Saville

1800…Dave Silvester

552…Dave Spagnolo

3533…Dave Yarker

1796…Dave Yarwood

1835…David Dawson

6188…David Delaney

1823…David Eggleton

6714…David Gagnon

1152…David Gregory

6716…David Gulas

4032…David Hennessy

1822…David Henry

935…David Jackson

1…David Johnston

4023…David Kirk

1829…David Leech

1816…David Liimatainen

1825…David Macquistan

1819…David Mccaw

5353…David Migicovsky

1826…David Nash

3600…David Perry

1242…David Rain

1831…David Rampton

1821…David Sproule

842…David Thomson

3698…David Tobin

1812…David Tuck

1837…Davina Gordon

4035…Davina Walker-Priebe

6190…Dawn Boudreau

1054…Dawn Montgomery

6723…Dawn Styan

1075…Dean Justus

3692…Deb Hogan

4037…Deb Quayle

4038…Debbie Bloom

6727…Debbie Carrick

5144…Debbie Ling

6729…Debby Duford

7470…Debby Simms

7472…Deborah Chamney

3517…Deborah Newhook

6730…Deborah Potter

1843…Deborah Taymun

5150…Dee Sullivan

5064…Deidre Kelly

6733…Demi Kotsovos

4047…Denis Binette

5365…Denis Niles

1846…Denis Thompson

6193…Denise Deschenes

6194…Denise Gillam-Gledhill

4051…Denise Plaa

3732…Denise Thibault

6734…Denise Walter

801…Dennis Bulman

1850…Dennis Waite

1853…Derek Dobson

1854…Derek Fildebrandt

1855…Derek Gledhill

4054…Derek Hille

5372…Derek Lanouette

184…Derek Mcmaster

1852…Derek Parent

504…Derek Smith

7475…Des Keon

1857…Desmond Gosse

1859…Devin Dreeshen

1858…Devin Harrington

6738…Devon Forde

5011…Diana Harrison

4058…Diana Schembri

5374…Diane Dupuis

6090…Diane Mackinder

4062…Diane St-Laurent

1866…Diane Wilson

7478…Dianne Panarella

649…Dick Gunstone

6746…Dillon Vahey

1868…Dion Edmonds

1870…Dj Roy

1874…Dominique Chiasson

4069…Dominique Keuthen

789…Don Andersen

7479…Don Evoy

1876…Don Moors

6749…Don Orr

5119…Dona Hill

7480…Donald Darrell

5966…Donald Henry

1879…Donald Mcfarling

1877…Donald Taylor

6200…Donald Tupper

1022…Donald Waldock

6201…Donna Dandele-Macnabb

7481…Donna Perry

5382…Doris Leung

5084…Doris Mclean

4077…Dorothy Dalton-Smith

1883…Dorothy Kessler

1014…Doug Eagle

4079…Doug Mirau

4080…Douglas Brecknell

1891…Douglas Carles

669…Douglas Cooper

6755…Douglas Loader

1886…Douglas Macaulay

1890…Douglas Mcginn

1887…Douglas Petryk

1889…Douglas Thomas

6757…Drew Clipperton

1893…Drew Dodington

1894…Drew Mcnair

187…Duaine Simms

5384…Duane Forward

1898…Duncan Bunny Shaw

1895…Duncan Mackintosh

1323…Dung Bui

6038…Dvora Rotenberg

4083…Dwayne Aylward

1901…Dwayne Lemon

1902…Dwight Obst

4084…Dylan Price

1136…Dylan Shields

1906…Ed Clouthier

5386…Edith Bostwick

4088…Edith Greenlee

753…Edith Knight

4087…Edith Tam

1913…Edward Fox

7483…Edward Jun

1914…Edward Livingstone

1244…Edward Vonk

5387…Eileen Vincent

1915…Eira Macdonell

5389…Elaine Petrie

5120…Elaine Yardley

7399…Eleanor Ford

7485…Eleanor Hastings

6763…Eleanore Brickell

4093…Eli Tannis

6764…Elisabeth Baechlin

4096…Elissa Renaud

5393…Elizabeth Burn

4101…Elizabeth Howe

1921…Elizabeth Kerr

4100…Elizabeth Murray

4098…Elizabeth Richards

4097…Elizabeth Rodgers

6766…Elizabeth Rose

3651…Elke Keating

4103…Ellen Bunny Campbell

5083…Ellen Carter

1923…Ellen Curtis

3601…Ellen Lamarre

6514…Ellen Nikonorova

5097…Ellen O'halloran

90…Elyse Pratt-Johnson

1925…Elysia Van Zeyl

3311…Emilee Lloyd-Krusky

6768…Emilie Lavigne

4104…Emilie Porlier

1926…Emilie Tougas

1932…Emily Burton

1928…Emily Gildner

3726…Emily Joyce

6769…Emily Larocque

1930…Emily Sharples

4107…Emma Doucet

4108…Emmanuelle Deaton

6770…Enjoli Stevens

6771…Eric Arnold

188…Eric Arseneault

5399…Eric Belchamber

339…Eric Bourlier

4110…Eric Bradbury

3469…Eric Burpee

123…Eric Charland

7423…Eric Sewell

680…Eric Weaver

4921…Erik Husband

3727…Erik Laflamme

6774…Erin Beasley

6213…Erin Beck

6775…Erin Collins

1955…Erin Enros

4122…Erin Ferraris

4119…Erin Holtby

6214…Erin Langton

5409…Erin Mutterback

1958…Etienne Goudreau

4124…Eva Burnett

6777…Evamarie Weicker

6778…Evan Clarke

3373…Evan May

5412…Evelyn Wheeler

1961…Faye Goldman

4126…Fern Lima

189…Fiona Johnston

4127…Flavia Pontes Nascimento

1969…Frances Enright

6783…Frances Muldoon

3384…Frances Ryan

3730…Francesca Craig

593…Francesca Macdonald

1970…Francesca Tauvette

6050…Francine Gaulin

5415…Francine Vachon

1972…Francis Ouimet

6784…Francisco Fernandes De Sousa

965…Francisco Salazar

1973…Franco Pasqualini

660…Francois Dumaine

1979…Francois Lavertu

1099…Frank D'angelo

4138…Frank Gelinas

393…Frank Maloney

4141…Frank Rayal

1985…Franz Ferraris

191…Franz Kirk

1984…Franz Kropp

4142…Fraser Cole

1987…Fraser Pearce

1988…Fred Pelletier

1989…Fred Smith

5420…Frederic Levesque

394…Frederic-Francois Desmarais

1996…Fuen Leal-Santiago

6789…Gabby Moser

6790…Gabe Batstone

763…Gabriela Balajova

6793…Gabrielle Nadeau

4143…Gaby Moreau

6092…Gail Baker-Gregory

6223…Garrett Maurstad

894…Gary Mckenna

84…Gary Wilkes

2004…Gaspare Mangiaracina

2005…Gavin Hunt

6225…Gavin Kelly

4146…Gavin Lemoine

194…Geb Marett

2006…Geneva Collier

2010…Genevieve Ashton

2008…Genevieve Butler

3420…Genevieve Le Jeune

4148…Genevieve Lemieux

5425…Genevieve Paris

2007…Genevieve Pineau

4150…Genevieve Tanguay

792…Gennifer Stainforth

582…Geoff Cooper

636…Geoff Dunkley

3717…Geoff Dunn

4151…Geoff Mroz

2013…Geoff Roth

1287…Geoffrey Dudding

7400…Geoffrey Ford

2017…George Condrut

1003…George Ferrier

975…George Garrard

6511…George Hajecek

5427…George Mcleod

2015…George Wehbi

6798…Georges Rousselle

5428…Georgette Demers

196…Gerald Aubry

4154…Gerry Clarke

2020…Gerry Nigra

6799…Gil Brunette

6226…Gilbert Lepine

1246…Gilbert Nkusi

2028…Gilles Beauparlant

2024…Gilles Lafleur

2030…Gilles Menard

860…Gillian Andersen

2034…Gillian Reid-Schachter

5124…Gillianne Beaulieu

3520…Gina Charos

2035…Gino Rinaldi

6229…Girard A-C

2037…Giuseppe Agnello

1059…Glen Gobel

2039…Glen Trevisani

2042…Glenn Boustead

16259…Glenn Cheney

6802…Glenn Cowan

5430…Glenn Franklin

2041…Glenn Poirier

719…Gloria Baeza

5431…Gloria Teague

674…Gord Baldwin

960…Gord Coulson

2043…Gordon Mcgillivray

2044…Grace Harju

1101…Grace Howland

2046…Graeme Hamilton

2045…Graeme Wardlaw

2051…Graham Acreman

2047…Graham Schuler

2052…Grant Macleod

5435…Greg Brockmann

4167…Greg Haspect

2056…Greg Hussack

6231…Greg Klump

2054…Greg Macdougall

2059…Greg Mcneill

2053…Greg Penner

6806…Greg Zinck

3636…Gregg Reddin

2060…Gregory De Knoop

2063…Guillaume Croisetiere

2062…Guillaume Proulx

2071…Guy Boyd

1017…Guy Pelletier

5437…Guy Warwick

4169…Guylain Thorne

2074…Gyro Inman

2075…Hai Nguyen

342…Harold Boudreau

909…Harold Geller

6812…Harry Fischer

7490…Hazel Ullyatt

1089…Hazen Harty

2081…Heather Bigelow

4170…Heather Carriere

4173…Heather Chew

4172…Heather Cudmore

6235…Heather D Wilson

995…Heather Dye

7491…Heather Gerrior

3375…Heather Mccready

6816…Heather Nixon

3500…Heather Paulusse

1102…Heather Watts

6817…Helen Francis

2084…Helen Wright

6818…Helene Boucher

7386…Helene Leduc

5075…Henri St-Martin

4953…Hidetaka Nishimura

3369…Hieu Nguyen

6819…Hilary Chaiton

2092…Hilary Mellor

6820…Hillary Rose

737…Hollie Anderson

3558…Holly Johnson

4180…Holly Skelton

4181…Holly Stoss

506…Howard Smith

2096…Hugo Whitfield

7493…Iaian Docherty

590…Iain Macdonald

9580…Ian Anderson

2108…Ian Bunny Joiner

6821…Ian Crawford

3699…Ian Graham

5447…Ian Iacovitti

554…Ian Krepps

1311…Ian Malcolm

2099…Ian Mcfarland

2106…Ian Pace

2104…Ian Pickard

500…Ian Roney

2101…Ian Shea

5448…Ian Siegert

2102…Ian White

1248…Ian-Guy Dupuis

6238…Ingrid Berljawsky

6824…Ingrid Neufeld

2109…Ione Jayawardena

1103…Ir Ne Dionne

597…Irvin Hill

5451…Iryna Abramova

2111…Iryna Karpova

2112…Isaac Wesley

6240…Isabelle Beach

5453…Isabelle Cantin

5454…Isabelle Carriere

4190…Isabelle Gosselin

4188…Isabelle Saint-Laurent

5455…Isagani Valencia

2116…Ivan Stefanov

4194…J Carson

5457…J Lahaie

1070…Jack Gilmer

5458…Jack Murta

3459…Jacki Sachrajda

5459…Jaclyn O'Brien

2119…Jacques Olivier

4198…Jaffer Majeed

2132…James Beaupre

2138…James Bunny Sauve

3629…James Campbell

2125…James Derosenroll

2131…James Harvey

2129…James Mcnamee

2130…James Price

6838…James Vannier

710…Jamie Bell

1125…Jamie Hurst

4205…Jamie Mccarthy

7499…Jan Riopelle

2146…Jana Veltheim

2150…Jane Anne Brown

1316…Jane Gibson

2147…Jane Hazel

2148…Jane Latham

5467…Jane Marie Obst

4207…Jane Morris

3531…Jane Rooney

6024…Jane Schofield

1344…Jane Spiteri

6839…Janelle Denton

3675…Janet Cooper

2154…Janet Curran

4981…Janet Hardcastle

4210…Janet Hart

3451…Janet Nuutilainen

542…Janet Perkins

6841…Janet Sol

4213…Janice Chan

6843…Janice Mccoy

2160…Janick Aquilina

113…Jared Broughton

2164…Jasmine Clancy

4224…Jason Adair

4219…Jason Arbuthnot

2167…Jason Baertschi

4221…Jason Bond

1110…Jason Chouinard

2173…Jason Downey

2179…Jason Gagnon

2174…Jason Haug

207…Jason Mah

2180…Jason Meahan

2171…Jason Moodie

2166…Jason Pantalone

6846…Jason Raymond

2168…Jason Riordon

3353…Jason Saunders

1113…Jason Stewart

781…Jason Verner

4222…Jason Walker

1391…Jaswant Singh

2181…Jay Lymer

1360…Jayme Pettit

2186…Jean Bouffard

2187…Jean Lacroix

2185…Jean Lapointe

4228…Jean Mcdonell

4229…Jean Wright

2189…Jean-Christophe Bund

2197…Jean-Francois Brideau

6851…Jean-Guy Perron

4234…Jean-Marc Gionet

2201…Jeanne Millons

4235…Jeanne Percival

389…Jeanne Robitaille

1159…Jeannie Daly

2202…Jeannine Bailliu

80…Jean-Philippe Dion

1249…Jean-Pierre Ch Nier

4236…Jean-Pierre Cote

2206…Jean-Pierre Morin

8019…Jean-Pierre Simard

3534…Jeff Bardell

2217…Jeff Frobel

5480…Jeff Hawn

5481…Jeff Hunt

214…Jeff Mccue

2208…Jeff Moore

6855…Jeff Ross

213…Jeff Smart

4238…Jeff Smart

4241…Jeff Stoss

217…Jeffery Vanderploeg

4243…Jeffrey English

4244…Jeffrey Lafontaine

2218…Jeffrey Macdonald

218…Jeffrey Smith

818…Jenna Blois

5484…Jenna Jessup

6856…Jenna Lacharity

606…Jenna Ladd

2231…Jennifer Adams

4258…Jennifer Balao

3712…Jennifer Balcom

6859…Jennifer Bergeron

711…Jennifer Beyak

2220…Jennifer Biondi

4964…Jennifer Blattman

1076…Jennifer Brenning

6001…Jennifer Bucknall

2222…Jennifer Clinton

4264…Jennifer Degouffe

6861…Jennifer Dumoulin

3616…Jennifer Fergusson

6862…Jennifer Harnden

2223…Jennifer Hartley

5046…Jennifer Hood

3718…Jennifer Leblanc

5493…Jennifer Lim

4265…Jennifer Mccabe

4263…Jennifer Moher

1349…Jennifer Moores

2228…Jennifer Morris

2229…Jennifer Morrison

6863…Jennifer Morse

4253…Jennifer Murphy

3539…Jennifer Nutt

4260…Jennifer Paul

2226…Jennifer Payne

5103…Jennifer Shortall

5485…Jennifer Stadler

2225…Jennifer Taillefer

6868…Jennifer Tighe

4262…Jennifer Tindale

4256…Jennifer Wenzel

16294…Jenny Koumoutsidis

4268…Jenny Lewis

219…Jeremy Irving

6872…Jeremy Kerr

2236…Jeremy Mansfield

2237…Jeremy Mcgee

5497…Jess Keller

4271…Jesse Blondin

4272…Jesse Craig

3559…Jessica Brown

2244…Jessica Devries

2250…Jessica Eamer

1252…Jessica Kight

5498…Jessica Lanouette

2243…Jessica Moss

2249…Jessica O'gorman

4275…Jessica Pancoe

6874…Jessica Roche

4273…Jessica Wilson

690…Jesula Drouillard

4278…Jez Fletcher

6877…Jf Fauteux

6878…Jian Wu

1026…Jill Ainsworth

5500…Jill Frook

4280…Jill Perry

4282…Jill Pomeroy

220…Jill Stapleton

4281…Jill Thompson

2253…Jill Turner

828…Jillian Osborne

120…Jim Carter

4287…Jim Hogan

2254…Jim Lothrop

6267…Jim Mcinnes

4285…Jim Steel

7643…Jimmy Cox

4304…Jo Lle Sabourin

4292…Joan Bard Miller

7380…Joan Carpini

5505…Joan Kam Cheong

6269…Joan Norgren

1181…Joan Tourangeau

6043…Jo-Ann Brault

6887…Joann Garbig

831…Jo-Anne Belliveau

6890…Joanne Bradley

5510…Jo-Anne Guimond

6271…Joanne Johnson

4298…Joanne Merrett

1155…Joanne Ritchie

2257…Joanne Schmid

3555…Jocelyn Kearney

71…Jodi Wendland

6895…Jodi Wilson

6896…Jody Bergen

2261…Jody Delwo

1132…Joe Gunn

2262…Joe Paraskevas

6898…Joel Allaert

2264…Joel Edwards

2265…Joel Elliott

2270…Joel Le Floch

6273…Joel Neuheimer

6900…Joel Pennycook

2267…Joel Weaver

668…Joel Westheimer

98…Joey Rogowy

6902…Johanne Dery

898…John Beaudoin

2281…John Bowen

3657…John Brady

2274…John Carson

2285…John Downey

2293…John Gillissie

2276…John Hamilton

5522…John Hawkins

3658…John Horvath

6280…John Leblanc

989…John Ledo

2273…John Lymer

2284…John Meikle

6904…John Mitchell

3709…John Oliver

4318…John Patrick Sloan

5519…John Pemberton

6905…John Rajman

2287…John Sobey

5520…John Sowiak

5518…John Swift

4312…John Sylvestre

222…John Timmermans

618…Johnathan Macdonald

3364…Jolene Savoie

4915…Jon Mcdougall

316…Jon Neill

2305…Jonathan Carreiro

2299…Jonathan Cox

4321…Jonathan Dawe

862…Jonathan Godin

226…Jonathan Moher

2298…Jonathan Murphy

4319…Jonathan Noynay

5024…Joni Ogawa

4325…Jonny Sullivan

2306…Jon-Rhys Evenchick

2307…Jordan Freed

6907…Jordan Mcleod

5524…Jordan Menzies

5527…Josee Boudreault

7510…Josee Bradley

628…Josee Picard

810…Josee Surprenant

2313…Joseph Kozar

2315…Joseph Smith

567…Josette Day

5964…Josh Larocque

6283…Josh Pringle

4330…Joshua Burrill

16271…Joshua Karanja

7511…Josip Basar

4332…Joy Halverson

2323…Joy Kim

390…Judah Leung

4937…Judy Patterson

7393…Judy Taylor

607…Julia Barss

2327…Julia Bernier

2330…Julia Bunny Fournier

6288…Julia Gardiner

5047…Juliann Castell

1198…Julie Burke

4341…Julie Croteau

2335…Julie Dale

3609…Julie Gourlay

5544…Julie Greenspoon

4344…Julie Laflamme

7392…Julie Lafleche

6923…Julie Laplante

3418…Julie Lefebvre

2331…Julie Murdock

2336…Julie Pickering

2333…Julie Rollwagen

1336…Julien Beauchamp

4346…Julien Bourgeois

7514…June Fawaz

602…Justin Ferns

964…Justin Laroche

6930…Kaari Hukkala

5548…Kaelen Bray

5549…Kaila Mctavish

4982…Kailena Van De Nes

2341…Kailey Mclachlan

5550…Kait Reeves

534…Kaitlin O'reilly

4348…Kammal Tannis

2345…Kara Meldrum

2344…Kara Mitchell

227…Karen Atkinson

5556…Karen Berrigan

6932…Karen Foss

2350…Karen Jardine

3697…Karen Jeffery

5558…Karen Ling

4945…Karen Marshall

5557…Karen Meades

4352…Karen Philpott

807…Karen Sauve

2347…Karen Streek

6938…Karen Timm

6939…Karen Welch

1220…Karine Circe

4362…Karl Blume

5562…Karl St-Hilaire

1182…Karyn Curtis

700…Kate Borowec

4365…Kate Corsten

4364…Kate Davis

5069…Kate Dickson

5026…Kate Lewis

2357…Kate Spellen

1303…Kate Swetnam

6058…Kate Thompson

4366…Katharine Chamberlain

822…Katharine Mullock

2360…Katherine Halhed

2361…Katherine Heath-Eves

6946…Katherine Liston

6947…Katherine Macdonald

5567…Katherine Venance

2366…Kathleen Beamish

2365…Kathleen Bright

2368…Kathleen Carter

2369…Kathleen Denny

2370…Kathleen Foran

2363…Kathleen Hart

5570…Kathleen Heap

7645…Kathleen Holloway Jun

5569…Kathleen Satterthwaite

6950…Kathlene Allen

3662…Kathryn Aubrey-Horvath

6951…Kathryn Burbridge

4368…Kathryn Galvin

5095…Kathy Lewis

6955…Kathy Norris

802…Kathy O'brien

4371…Kathy Suh

4372…Katie Mailhot

4374…Katie Stewart

6958…Katie Tottenham

1194…Katrina Isacsson

3529…Katy Harrison

3297…Kaveh Rikhtegar

6301…Kayla Gregg

6302…Kayt Render

91…Kazutoshi Nishizawa

2374…Keane Grimsrud

6960…Keiko Umemoto

5574…Keith Burnage

6963…Keith Mulligan

2376…Keith Pomakis

1291…Keith Savage

2380…Kel Doig

4379…Kelley Blanchette

6966…Kelly Boyko

6967…Kelly Cooper

2381…Kelly Debruyn

4385…Kelly Gray

4388…Kelly Hewitt

2384…Kelly Mckean

4381…Kelly Roberts

4386…Kelly Tchorewski

4382…Kelly Watters

2382…Kelly Whitty

5581…Kelsey Clark

6308…Kelvin Chan

2387…Ken Backer

6526…Ken Brough

2388…Ken Fong

671…Ken Gibson

229…Ken Grant

4392…Ken Macinnes

1009…Ken Mcnair

6309…Kendall Miller

5584…Kenneth Buajitti

6969…Kent Daboll

3505…Kerry Nolan

2407…Kevin Briggs

911…Kevin Dulude

6975…Kevin Germundson

2401…Kevin Huber

2410…Kevin Mercer

575…Kevin O'brien

2398…Kevin Semeniuk

118…Kevin Wickens

7519…Kezia Martin

2412…Khanh Huynh

6981…Khorina Ou

6982…Khorithy Ou

2413…Kia Goutte

2414…Kien Ly

2417…Kim Baars

6983…Kim Benjamin

5589…Kim Leach

1337…Kim Moir

2418…Kim St-Denis

6051…Kim White

6010…Kim Wilson

5164…Kimberly Rennie

7648…Kirstin Doull

4410…Kitdapawn E

750…Kiza Francis

3452…Kp Mcnamara

2424…Kris Bulmer

2425…Krishna Sharma

2429…Krista Campbell

2426…Krista Gifford

730…Krista Lewis

684…Krista Macdonald

2433…Kristen Beausoleil

4415…Kristen Cairncross

6990…Kristiana Stevens

95…Kristin Le Saux-Farmer

6991…Kristin Macrae

4418…Kristina Beauchesne

4983…Kristina Dyck

4999…Kristine Joan Proudfoot

6315…Kristine Lee

3354…Kristine Simpson

2436…Kristy Belanger

4420…Krystal Hess

4421…Krystel Carrier-Sabourin

2437…Kumar Saha

2438…Kyle Biggar

2439…Kyle Gibbens

6995…Kyle Villenuve

6996…Kym Martin

4423…Kym Shouldice

6997…Kymberlee Lightowlers

4424…L. Pelly

3445…Laen Hanson

5603…Lam Pham

7521…Lamar Mason

2442…Lana Hochman

1298…Larry Chamney

2446…Laura Bayne

6318…Laura Carlone

3436…Laura Cluney

7005…Laura Conway

5082…Laura Forbes

6321…Laura Gover

5606…Laura Griffin

6530…Laura Grohn

5609…Laura Jane Johnson

6320…Laura May

5014…Laura Nichols

5610…Laureen Robinson-Skilliter

2447…Lauren Eyre

3719…Lauren Gamble

5433…Lauren Gouchie

6324…Lauren Kappius

7010…Laurence Ahoussou

7011…Laurent Dutrisac

608…Laurent Potiez

1158…Laurent Roy

5977…Laurie Bouolet

859…Laurie Cairns

7…Laurie Gorman

2448…Laurie Hardage

4431…Laurie Macleod-Kyd

5611…Laurie Maybury

5612…Laurie Maynard

2449…Laurie Meaney-Tobin

4429…Laurie Shusterman

589…Lawrence Wong

7013…Leah Andrews

717…Leah Carson

5615…Leah Syrie

5971…Lee Mccambley

5616…Lee Trainer

7015…Lee Wyndham

7017…Leigh Ann Butler

745…Leigh Howe

7016…Leigh Perreault

344…Leila Ahad

738…Lena Maione

5169…Lenore Macartney

7019…Leo Kadota

2455…Leo Murphy

4437…Leon Sutherland

484…Leona Crabb

1218…Les Woolsey

5618…Lesley Grignon

3360…Lesley Mackay

2456…Leslie Anne Bailliu

4440…Leslie Ashton

7022…Leslie Dauncey

766…Leslie Robertson

994…Lester Mundt

4441…Lexy Scott

3296…Leyla Di Cori

7024…Lia Pirili

2457…Liam Cleary

1346…Liam Kennedy

954…Lidnina Rodriguez

2458…Liisa Vexler

6068…Lillian Serrouya Thibault

4442…Lily Lemay

6501…Lina Seto

5620…Linda Descarie

1169…Linda Doyle

4450…Linda Ferguson

4446…Linda Hamelin

2460…Linda Lewis

7524…Linda Yusak

1332…Lindsay Grace

6332…Lindsay Gracey

5622…Lindsay Harrison

2464…Lindsay Walker

848…Lindsey Gresham

7526…Line Gosselin

2467…Line Robitaille

3303…Linsey Hollett

72…Lisa Balerna

6334…Lisa Bambrick

7030…Lisa Butler

4456…Lisa Dalla Rosa

7031…Lisa Duffett

795…Lisa Gibson

5625…Lisa Gorman

3547…Lisa Grison

3396…Lisa Hansen

7035…Lisa Julian

4457…Lisa Kawaguchi

4453…Lisa Murphy

2470…Lisa Phelan

5629…Lisa Pougnet

4452…Lisa Setlakwe

2474…Lisa-Marie Inman

7037…Lise Arseneau

3581…Lise Perrier

4459…Lissa Seymour

630…Lori Camilucci

5634…Lori Peckham

5633…Lori Swift

7528…Lorna Duguay

2481…Lorne Murdock

507…Lorne Schmidt

7045…Lorraine England

7530…Lou Descarie

2484…Louis Christophe Laurence

4465…Louis Jordon

232…Louis Tay

656…Louise Gresham

5976…Louise Morin

5640…Louise Rachlis

430…Luc Bentolila

638…Lucas Smith

3397…Luce Blouin

6344…Lucie Berthiaume

5643…Lucie Labelle

2488…Lucie Roberge

755…Lucie Villeneuve

997…Lucien Cattrysse

2489…Lucinda Jagger

7049…Lucy Macdonald

2494…Luvy Gonzalez

2495…Lydia Butler

7051…Lynda Cronin

7533…Lynda Weaver

2500…Lyndsey Hill

2502…Lynette Martin

3664…Lynn Diggins

3587…Lynn Marchildon

2504…Lynn Mclewin

5087…Lynn Nightingale

1086…Lynne Russell

2505…Lynne Smart

6346…Lyse Langevin

 

Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

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Fledborough a village in Nottinghamshire.

 

The earliest references to Fledborough date from the last quarter of the 11th century. The settlement is noted as ‘Fladburh’ in a 1075-92 entry in the Cartulary of the Abbey of Eynsham, and as ‘Fladeburg’ in Domesday Book of 1086. Gover, Mawer, and Stenton take the name to mean the burh or fortified place of a woman named Flæda. Ekwall’s interpretation is that the name derives from the Old English ‘flēot’, which would mean the burh on a stream.

 

Domesday Book notes that, previous to the Conquest, Fledborough had belonged to the Countess Godiva, who had also possessed land in Newark and at Stokeham. By 1086, all three landholdings had become part of the considerable estate of Remigius, Bishop of Lincoln, who is thought to have provided logistical support for King William’s invasion in 1066, and who may even have been related to him.

 

The next documentary reference to Fledborough appears from 1166, when the bishop of Lincoln certified that three knights’ fees were held from him by Nigel de Fleuburge, who may have descended, possibly in the female line, from the Nigel who had been the bishop’s tenant in 1086. Nigel de Fleuburge is thought to have been the father of Robert de Lisures, who held the same three fees in 1201 and 1210.

 

Robert de Lisures was probably the father of Nigel de Lisures, who is recorded as having held three knights’ fees from the bishop of Lincoln in 1242-3. Nigel de Lisures was succeeded by John, possibly his son but more likely his brother, since he is recorded from 1274-5 as having stopped up a pathway in Fledborough which ran outside his croft. John de Lisures is thought to have been the ‘John de Lisors’ who represented Nottinghamshire in the parliament of 1302.

 

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Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama Retells the Trail of Tears in Cherokee, NC

 

Millions of visitors have attended Unto These Hills, presented by the Cherokee Historical Association, which tells the story of the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears. Taken from the pages of history, the play by Kermit Hunter follows the story of the Cherokee of the Eastern region up to their removal via the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. The drama includes notable Cherokee historical figures, including Junaluska, Tsali, and Yonaguska.

 

What was the Trail of Tears?

Taking place in the 1830s, the Trail of Tears was the forced and brutal relocation of approximately 100,000 indigenous people (belonging to Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among other nations) living between Michigan, Louisiana, and Florida to land west of the Mississippi River. Motivated by gold and land, Congress (under President Andrew Jackson) passed the Indian Removal Act by a slim and controversial margin in 1830. The Cherokees resisted removal through every possible means. Even Junaluska, who had saved Andrew Jackson’s life at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, traveled to Washington to plead the Cherokee’s cause, but Jackson would not see him.

  

The Treaty of New Echota

In 1835, the Treaty of New Echota was signed by a minority of Cherokees, including Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot, in an act of absolute betrayal (the three were assassinated by other Cherokee in 1839). Major Ridge claimed to represent the Cherokee Nation, but he was only considering a small group of people. The Treaty would give Cherokee land west of the Mississippi to the US in exchange for $5,000,000. In 1836, the U.S. Congress ratified the treaty (by one vote in the Senate) and gave Cherokees two years to remove themselves. Meanwhile, the U.S. Army began constructing stockades in preparation for the removal, which would become known as the Trail of Tears.

 

The Forced Removal of the Cherokee People

The Cherokee Nation rejected the Treaty of New Echota. As a result, between May 1838 and March 1839, federal soldiers and state militia rounded up 16,000 Cherokees from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina, taking them to stockades, and forcing them to get on boats and then march to Indian territory, present-day Oklahoma. At least 4,000 Cherokees died—one quarter of the population—and many were buried in unmarked graves. This devastating chapter in American history is known as the Trail of Tears.

 

Cherokee Heroes Emerged

One group of Cherokees, the Oconaluftee Citizen Indians, remained in North Carolina. Sixty families, led by Yonaguska, Long Blanket, and Wilnota, had land in their own names under the Treaties of 1817 and 1819. They lived sober, industrious lives, and were able to successfully appeal to the North Carolina legislature to remain on their lands, mostly near the Oconaluftee River.

 

During removal, three to four hundred Cherokees hid in the wooden mountains of Western North Carolina. In November of 1838, Tsali and his family killed two soldiers who were attempting to capture them. Tsali and his family became fugitives from the federal government. Aided by William Holland Thomas (Yonaguska’s adopted son), the American soldiers found Tsali. Tsali agreed to give himself up and be executed so that other Cherokees would be allowed to stay in their homes in the mountains.

 

Honoring the Cherokee Nation

All together, about a thousand Cherokees, including those who stayed in the mountains or made their way back from the Trail of Tears, became the ancestors of today’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Today, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is a sovereign nation with over 14,000 members.

 

Visit the Museum of the Cherokee Indian to experience the story of the Trail of Tears through artifacts, artwork, audio narration, and life-sized figures.

 

Tickets for Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC

Unto These Hills is a powerful retelling of Cherokee history, in a narrative about the Trail of Tears that is heartbreaking and hopeful. As one of the oldest outdoor dramas in the United States, it has been stirring audiences since the very first production opened in the Cherokee Mountainside Theater in 1950. We hope you will see it for yourself and be transformed by the vibrant and enduring spirit of the Cherokee people. Purchase tickets for your whole family to see Unto These Hills through the Cherokee Historical Association Box Office, by phone at 866.554.4557, or online.

 

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* Cherokee North Carolina *

Discover the fun of seeing the world through Cherokee eyes.

 

It might happen on a mud-spattering romp through the nearby Great Smoky Mountains. Or while hearing the creation legend in the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. You’ll be having fun in Cherokee, relaxing, and suddenly, you’re a little more in tune with the natural world. With just one visit to something as profound as the outdoor drama “Unto These Hills,” you can’t help but look at things a little differently. And you’ll certainly have more fun. How will Cherokee affect you? Plan. Play. Visit. And discover.

 

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•Museum of the Cherokee Indian

•Oconaluftee Indian Village

•Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc.

•“Unto These Hills” Outdoor Drama

•Sequoyah National Golf Club

•Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort

 

Adventures that go deeper.

Each place you visit in Cherokee pulses with the stories and significance of a people whose roots run deep and whose ancient wisdom is fascinating to uncover. Nestled in the lush landscapes of Western North Carolina, Cherokee invites you to smell the wood smoke and open your ears. If you listen closely, maybe you can hear the chanting of the little Nunnehi people of the mountain peaks. No need to resist Cherokee’s invitations to dive right in. Fire off a blowgun if you dare, but make sure your spouse is in the clear. As you cast your line into the trout-filled rivers or wash your face in the sweet spray of a waterfall, let the powerful feelings of Cherokee carry you. Even if it’s just for a day or two.

 

Open your eyes with us.

A virtual treasure trove of outdoorsy fun awaits in Cherokee. Activities gain new dimensions as you become aware of their origins, steeped in a vibrant cultural heritage. For instance, if you enjoy birding, you may never see the cardinal in the same way after learning about the legend of how it got its scarlet color–just as you may observe in a new way the copper lines in the ancient boulders along the banks of the Oconaluftee where you may be fishing, tubing or kayaking. Did you know that the wolf showed the cardinal those copper lines to paint herself with after she pecked the mud from his eyes? These are stories you and your fellow travelers will learn as you explore Cherokee.

 

Awaken your power animal.

Cherokee history, song, dance, and period regalia come to vivid life in sites such as the Oconaluftee Indian Village, the outdoor drama “Unto These Hills,” or the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Cherokee hosts a variety of annual cultural festivals throughout the year where you can share in the celebration of colorful customs and learn about ancient beginnings.

 

Let your braids fly in downtown Cherokee.

Nostalgic shops offering blowguns and tomahawks, comfy motor lodges, family fun parks, and petting zoos can all be found in downtown Cherokee, NC. If you’re looking for something extraordinary, consider playing the 18-hole Sequoyah National Golf Course designed by Robert Trent Jones II, then staying at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort.

  

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A lot of fun here is priceless. Here are a few adventures you'll need to purchase.

 

* Fire Mountain Trails

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The network of trails is more than 10.5 miles total, so there’s plenty of room for everyone to recreate safely, responsibly…and flowy?

 

That’s right—if you like your trails with a nice flow of features, with fun berms and quick hits of elevation that are manageable and fun, Fire Mountain is made for you. You’ll find tables, rock gardens, and blinds for those who know, along with single-track and wider sections, spots that are smooth and fast, and trails that invite the more technically accomplished with options for those less so. The trailhead is located about 100 yards from the Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee and shares a parking lot. The trails interlace through the nearby Great Smoky Mountains, so you already know the views and terrain will take your breath away, even if your recreation of choice doesn’t!

 

Is it the flowiest trail in the east? Better than Ridgeline? Check the video or better yet, judge it for yourself during an overnight stay in Cherokee. Trails are free of charge, and open every day, all day.

  

* Museum of the Cherokee Indian

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The Museum of the Cherokee Indian is “A Model for Museums.” And like the Cherokee people themselves, it’s entirely unique.

 

Experience the 11,000-year-old Cherokee story vividly. If your idea of a museum includes dusty displays tended by a boring curator, get ready to rediscover what a museum can be. Inspired by the beauty and ingenuity of the Cherokee people, this is a cultural and historical tour without equal, one fused with interactive video, intriguing displays, and a full sensory experience. Step through our doors and discover up close the Cherokee people’s spirit of inventiveness, resilience, and will to survive. Let yourself be guided through a moving journey that illustrates who the people of Cherokee really are, where they came from, and why they’re still here. Keep a hankie close; Cherokee history is serious stuff.

 

Bringing a group to the area?

Ask about packages and “Cherokee Experiences” for groups, including Cherokee language courses, teacher workshops, and performances by the Warriors of AniKituhwa. The Museum of the Cherokee Indian is fully handicapped accessible throughout its exhibits, new education and research wing, and restrooms.

 

“One of the top ten native sites east of the Mississippi.” - Kevin Gover, Director, National Museum of the American Indian.

 

“The Museum of the Cherokee Indian is revolutionary in its ability to tell stories, and should be a model to other museums that are struggling to engage their audience with their message.”– Van Romans, Walt Disney Imagineering, Glendale, California.

 

Hours of Operation:

OPEN: 7 days/week year-round. Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.

Summer Hours: (Jun–Aug): 9 a.m.–7 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Sundays.

 

Winter Hours: (Sep–May): 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday-Sunday.

 

ADMISSION: Adults $11; Children (ages 6–12) $7; Children 5 and under admitted free.

 

GROUPS: Group rates and custom itineraries available. The “Cherokee Group Experience” is available for groups of 20 or more.

DISCOUNTS: Enjoy our AAA “Show Your Card & Save” discount. Show your AAA card and receive 10% off admission at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.

AARP discounts also available.

LOCATION: 589 Tsali Blvd. Cherokee, NC, at the intersection of Tsali Blvd. and Drama Road.

 

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Education: Barbara Duncan | bduncan@cherokeemuseum.org

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* “Unto These Hills” Outdoor Drama

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The original “Unto These Hills” drama is back.

Now, with extra drama.

 

Since its debut on July 1, 1950, “Unto These Hills” has entertained over six million people, telling the Cherokees’ rich story from 1780 to the twenty-first century. And for the first time in over a decade, that original production—updated for cultural sensitivity and extra stage drama—is back. Yes, the original Kermit Hunter version of “Unto These Hills” is being performed live again, under the stars, at the Mountainside Theatre.

 

Does a story thousands of years old require spoiler alerts?

If so, consider yourself alerted.

 

This story has action. Violence. Bitter disappointments and broken agreements. You’ll see triumph and tribulation. But you’ll also see the hardships of Cherokee history—so be warned. Though a family-friendly production, this is a “keep you on the edge of your seat” experience audiences see and feel. Through amazing imagery, and even some pyrotechnics, one thing’s for certain: you’ll emerge thrilled by the beauty and astounding courage of the Cherokee people.

 

Bring a blanket and someone to hold hands with.

 

As you enjoy the fresh air and the 2,100-seat, newly renovated Mountainside Theatre, it’s easy to be transported as the story unfolds thrillingly before your eyes. Join us and experience the power of Cherokee performing arts in a production certain to move you. It might be the perfect way to end your day before a comfortable bed in Cherokee calls your name.

 

WHERE:

“Unto These Hills” is performed at the Cherokee Mountainside Theatre, located at 688 Drama Road. Free parking for “Unto These Hills” ticket holders.

 

DATES:

The 2018 season runs from June 2 to August 18.

 

TIMES:

The show starts at 8:00 p.m. nightly. The theatre is closed on Sundays.

 

“Unto These Hills” General Admission Prices:

 

Adults: $25.00

Children 6–12: $15.00

Children 5–under: FREE

 

“Unto These Hills” Reserved Ticket Prices

Adults: $28.00

Children 6–12: $18.00

Children 5–under: FREE

 

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All ages: $40.00

 

Rain Insurance is $3.00 per ticket. Call the box office to get rain insurance with your ticket order up to the day before the show.

 

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Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more. Custom itineraries can be made to include other cultural attractions and/or events. Groups are encouraged to make advance reservations and must pay in full at least two weeks prior to date of arrival. Cancellations must be made two weeks in advance to receive a refund.

 

For any questions on group information please call 828.497.2111 ext. 215 or 866.554.4557 or contact us via email to ChaSales@cherokeeadventure.com.

 

Other ways to purchase tickets: To purchase tickets by phone, call toll free 866.554.4557. Tickets are also available at the Cherokee Historical Association Box Office at 564 Tsali Blvd., across the street from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian (off Highway 441N), from 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., and at the Mountainside Theatre (during summer season; located at 688 Drama Road) from 4:00 p.m. until showtime. Paid reservations are held for late arrival. All tickets are held at the box office (cash, Visa, and MasterCard are accepted). We do not accept personal checks at any of our box office locations.

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Welcome to Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. Who wouldn’t want a piece of Cherokee art to take home?

 

Cherokee art curators and collectors, rejoice. If you’re seeking authentic Cherokee arts and crafts, you’ve come to the largest home for it east of the Mississippi. Be it weaponry, the decorative beauty of beadwork, the intricate skill of finger weaving, or the sublime self-expression of wood and stone carving, it’s here, waiting to go home with you.

 

Timeless beauty captured in shape and texture.

 

In our world of mass production, it’s a welcome sight to behold something beautifully handmade in Cherokee. As you touch the smooth wood of the dramatic masks used in traditional dance rituals or the cool clay of the wedding jugs, you are reminded of the power of your own hands. Remember? Your fingers can do a lot more than navigate an iPhone touch screen or flip channels on a remote control. No reality TV here; this is a refreshing reality of a time past, preserved and carried on in the hands of present-day Cherokee craftsmen. Founded in 1946 with the purpose of preserving and advancing Cherokee arts and crafts, Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, Inc. is the oldest and leading Native American Arts cooperative in the United States.

 

When and where to enjoy Cherokee arts and crafts:

 

Season: Open year-round. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

 

Summer hours: (June–mid-August): 8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday;

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday.

 

Winter hours: (September–May): 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday;

9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Sunday. Closed Sundays in January and February.

 

Location: 645 Tsali Blvd. (Across the street from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian)

 

Phone: 828.497.3103

 

Admission: Showroom and gallery are FREE and open to the public during business hours.

 

Additional Cherokee Arts and Crafts Events

70th Anniversary Celebration

August 23, 2016

 

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* Fourth Annual Boy Scouts of America Bass Fishing Tournament

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* Back Porch Old Time Music Jam

Date(s): Mar 17, 2018

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* Easter Weekend

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* Peanuts the Easter Beagle Express Train Event

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* KOA Fishing Tournament

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* Cherokee’s Annual Opening Day Fishing Tournament

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* Cherokee’s Annual Opening Day Fishing Tournament

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Grade II* Flanchford Mill,

Grade II Nos. 1 and 2 Flanchford Mill Cottages (18th century)

 

Flanchford sub manor and mill: early documentary notes

The place name Flanchford, and its earlier forms, would indicate that the reputed or sub manor (VCH 3, 237) was first held by an Anglo-Scandinavian tenant of the Earls of Warenne (Fleinn’s ford; Gover et al 1934, 305) and probably not long after rl088 when William de Warenne I was made first Earl of Surrey and at the same time endowed with the manors of Reigate (Cherchefelle), Dorking, Shere Vachery and Fetcham (Hooper 1945, 24). The ? Norman earthwork, now part of Flanchford Farm, is probably the site of the earliest residence(s) while the site of the last manor house adjacent would show that the position of the capital messuage

changed but little over the centuries (vide 1727 map; the house was destroyed in the early 19th century (Palgrave 1860, 113); depicted by J Hassell in 1823 (Batley & Moss 1984, 39)).

The first documentation relates probably to the early 13th century. When at some time after 1240 John de Warenne granted Flanchford to Brice, his cook, and his wife Alice and their heirs, the property was described as a parcel of his manor of Reigate and formerly held by Hugh de Flenesford (excepting land which Adam de la Watere held) (deed without date, Manning & Bray 1, 305); it would of course be tempting to associate the said Adam with a watermill of this time.

The annual rent of a pound of cummin levied under this deed is known to have been received in the year 1300 (Hooper 1945, 34).In the 14th and 15th centuries scattered references reveal that the property was in the tenancy of Henry de Flaynesford (1317: CPR 1313-17, 653), Thomas de Fleynesford(1332: LSR), Henry de Fleynsford (1395 and 1409: FF 18 Richard II no 64 and 10 Henry IV no 70) and John

Timperley (1446: Manning & Bray 1, 305; VCH 3, 237). It may be significant that no mention of a mill is made in any of these references and similarly for the years 1382-6 when an inventory of the property was entered in the bailiff’s accounts (GMR 85/41/1, 507-24). Timperley conveyed Flanchford in 1454 to John and Alice Arderne who held neighbouring

Leigh Place and their son Richard inherited at some time before his death in 1499 (Manning & Bray 1, 305; VCH 3, 237). At an inquisition of 1500 (PRO E150/1063) it was revealed that

among considerable property in the locality Richard’s estate included ‘a watermill in [the parish of] Reygate held of the manor of Reygate’. This would appear to be the first known reference to a mill on the Flanchford site but a positive claim cannot be made until 1530 when the Arderne estate, including ‘a watermill called Flansford mill in the said parish of Rygate’, was sold to Edmund Shelley of Findon in Sussex by its then owner Sir John Dudley (Watney 1893, 150).

Thereafter occasional references would suggest that mills have stood on the site through the centuries to the present day, the existing wheel turning for the last time during the second World War.

 

Prehistoric and Medieval Occupation

near Flanchford Mill, Reigate

By R L ELLABY

Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

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Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp158-166

Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp158-166

Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wickhambreaux

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

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Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp158-166

First World War

 

Transcription of names (faces numbered clockwise from the front panel)

 

Face 1:

 

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE MEN

WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES

FOR KING AND COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 – 1918

 

Face 2:

 

Pte. Sydney Allingham -- Private S. Allingham (Service No: 290744), 2nd Bn., Devonshire Regiment; died 27 September 1918; buried in Bois-Carre British Cemetery, Thélus, Pas-de-Calais, France (III. F. 13.); [Private Allingham’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Bindon, Dorset and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/618006/ALLINGHAM,%20S

 

P.O. William E. Batty -- Petty Officer Stoker William Edward Batty (Service No: K/1408), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Black Prince."); died 31 May 1916, aged 29; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire (Panel 16); son of Francis Batty, of Sheffield; husband of Ethel Batty, of 63, North St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2875624/BATTY,%20WILL...

 

Pte. Arthur F. Best -- Not possible to identify unambiguously. The 1911 Census includes Arthur Frederick Best, a 16-year old “horseman on farm” living at Bushey, Corfe Castle with his parents, Frank and Louisa Mary Best, and seven siblings. He was born at Steeple. There was someone with the same name in the Royal Field Artillery, but Cpl. Best’s Forces War Records entry describes this person as ex London County Council (Tramways Department).

 

Cpl. Leonard C. Best -- Corporal Leonard Best (Service No: 3/7472), 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 27 March 1915, aged 44; name recorded on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 37.); son of the late Edward Charles Best, of The Sawpits, Wareham; husband of Maud Mary Delacourt Best (née Smith), of 17, New St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/927644/BEST,%20LEONARD

 

Pte. Frederick Bridle -- Private Frederick Bridle (Service No: 5857), "B" Coy., 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 14 September 1914, aged 35; name recorded on the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Memorial, Seine-et-Marne, France; son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Bridle, of Mill Lane, Wareham, Dorset; husband of Mrs. E. Bridle, of 24, Cow Lane, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/877856/BRIDLE,%20FRED...

 

Pte. Frederick Burgess -- Private Frederick Burgess (Service No: 10285), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 18 August 1915, aged 22; buried in Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (J. 55.); son of Thomas and Maria Burgess, of Wyatts Lane, Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/108371/BURGESS,%20FRE...

 

A.B. Ian H. P. Burgess -- Ordinary Seaman Ian Hector Percy Burgess (Service No: London Z/7965), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (H.M.S. "Erin."); died 3 September 1918, aged 18; buried in Wareham Cemetery, Dorset (B. E. 7.); son of John Henry and Susan Burgess, of Stoborough, Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2749387/BURGESS,%20IA...

 

Pte. Reginald Chilcott -- Private Reginald Chilcott (Service No: 13604), 1st Regt., South African Infantry; died 17 October 1918, aged 28; buried in Ors British Cemetery, Nord, France (A. 6.); son of George and Margaretta Chilcott, of Wareham, Dorset, England: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/582130/CHILCOTT,%20RE...

 

Pte. Frank W. Coakes -- Private Frank Wesley Coakes (Service No: 15739), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 1 May 1917, aged 21; buried in Grevillers British Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France (II. B. 12.); son of Mrs. Edith Mary Coakes: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/289814/COAKES,%20FRAN...

 

Pte. George Collins -- Not possible to identify unambiguously

 

Gnr. Joseph Cottrell -- Possibly: Gunner J. Cottrell (Service No: 162962), 12th Mountain Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery; died 26 March 1918; buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery (O. 64.); [Gunner Cottrell’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Corfe Castle and resident at Poole; in the 1901 Census, a Joseph Cottrell, aged 10, was living at Norden Common, the son of Hannah Marshallsay (previously Cottrell) and stepson of Charles Marshallsay; name also appears on the Corfe Castle war memorial]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/646583/COTTRELL,%20J

 

Lt. Kilcoursie S. Courtenay -- Lieutenant Kilcoursie Sigismund Courtenay, 3rd Bn., attd. 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 11 August 1918, aged 25; buried in Bouchoir New British Cemetery, Somme, France (IV. E. 109.); son of Kilcoursie Jocelyn Courtenay and Maude Courtenay, of Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/308398/COURTENAY,%20K...

 

Face 8:

 

Gnr. Harry Cox -- Gunner H. Cox (Service No: 170963), 9th Siege Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery; died 15 November 1918, aged 33; buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Seine-Maritime, France (S. III. EE. 7.); son of Elizabeth Cox, of Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/516810/COX,%20H

 

Pte. Albert Davidge -- Private A. Davidge (Service No: 10694), "C" Coy., 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 31 August 1915, aged 17; buried in Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery (C. 3069.); son of Mr. Frederick Thomas Davidge, and Minnie Davidge, of Carey Farm, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/473078/DAVIDGE,%20A

 

Pte. James R. Elmes -- Private James Richard Elmes (Service No: PO/1560(S)), 2nd R.M. Bn., R.N. Div., Royal Marine Light Infantry; died 28 April 1917, aged 25; name recorded on the Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France (Bay 1.); son of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Elmes, of 11, Roper's Lane, Wareham, Dorset, and the late George Elmes: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1541421/ELMES,%20JAME...

 

Pte. Henry T. Fooks -- Private Henry Thomas Fooks (Service No: 10348), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 21 August 1915, aged 20; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 136 to 139.); son of Henry and Ellen Fooks, of 5, Mount Pleasant, Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/696162/FOOKS,%20HENRY...

 

Pte. Lionel A. Fowler -- Private Lionel Arthur Fowler (Service No: 12613), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 26 September 1916, aged 20; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.); son of Frederick James and Adelaide Fowler, of Worgret Farm, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/749809/FOWLER,%20LION...

 

Pte. Leonard H. Fry -- Private Leonard Harry Fry (Service No: 75314), 17th Bn., Royal Fusiliers; died 24 March 1918, aged 19; name recorded on the Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France (Bay 3.); son of Alfred J. and Lucy Fry, of Hill View, Furzebrook, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1557810/FRY,%20LEONAR...

 

Sergt. William T. Gill -- Serjeant William Thomas Gill (Service No: 10029), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 21 August 1915, aged 28; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 136 to 139.); son of Samuel Gill, of 40, East St., Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/693508/GILL,%20WILLIA...

 

Pte. Charles Gould -- Private Charles Gould (Service No: 4639), 2nd/1st Bucks Bn., Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry; died 29 November 1916, aged 23; buried in Pozières British Cemetery, Ovillers-La-Boisselle, Somme, France (II. G. 5.); son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Gould, of Arne Wareham; husband of Fanny Cook (formerly Gould), of Yew Cottage, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/588919/GOULD,%20CHARLES

 

Pte. Jesse C. Gover -- Private Jesse Charles Gover (Service No: 12932), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 26 September 1916, aged 38; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.); son of Lewis Moses and Thurza Gover, of Ridge, Wareham, Dorset; husband of Emily Jane Gover, of I, Free St., Ilchester, Yeovil, Somerset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/786670/GOVER,%20JESSE...

 

L/Cpl. William C. Grant -- Probably: Lance Corporal C. Grant (Service No: 27388), 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 27 August 1918, aged 25; buried in Étaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France (LXVII. G. 31.); son of William and Minnie Grant, of Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/501554/GRANT,%20C

 

Pte. Ambrose H. Green -- Private A. H. Green (Service No: 20341), 6th Bn., Royal Munster Fusiliers; died 28 December 1917, aged 31; buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery (F. 36.); son of Joseph and Caroline Green, of Stoborough, Wareham, Dorset; husband of Elsie Jane Green, of Brindley, Library Rd., Upper Parkstone, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/647003/GREEN,%20A%20H

 

Sergt. Richard G. Heath -- Serjeant Richard George Heath (Service No: 1040), "C" Coy., 6th Bn., Leinster Regiment; died 10 August 1915, aged 28; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 184 and 185.); son of James and Sarah Heath, of 37, Church St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/694588/HEATH,%20RICHA...

 

Face 3:

 

Pte. John Henstridge -- Private John Henstridge (Service No: 18989), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 4 October 1917, aged 19; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 92.); son of William Charles and Charlotte Annie Henstridge, of Northport, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/836264/HENSTRIDGE,%20...

 

Pte. William Hill -- Private H. W. Hill (Service No: 37193), 13th Bn., Devonshire Regiment; died 5 January 1917, aged 37; buried in Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon (Church C. 4944.); son of the late William and L. Hill, of Arne, Wareham, Dorset; husband of the late Edith Hill (nee Roberts): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2852517/HILL,%20H%20W

 

Sergt. Reginald F. B. Hodge -- Serjeant Major Reginald Frank Hodge (Service No: 202425), "B" Coy., 2nd/4th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 10 November 1917; buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt (C. 97.); husband of Alice Fanny Hodge, of 30, Cow Lane, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/474812/HODGE,%20REGIN...

 

Pte. Percy W. Joyce, M.M. -- Private Percy William Joyce (Service No: G/6267), 1st Bn., The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment); awards: MM; died 13 April 1918; name recorded on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut (Panel 1 and 2.); [Private Joyce’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Wareham and resident at Guildford]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/872025/JOYCE,%20PERCY...

 

Pte. Jack Kenway -- Private J. Kenway (Service No: 25760), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 5 October 1917, aged 20; buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (VII. B. 27.); son of Lucy Kenway, of West Walls, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/437952/KENWAY,%20J

 

Pte. Herbert W. Kenway -- Private Herbert William Kenway (Service No: 10795), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 9 September 1915, aged 20; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 136 to 139.); son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenway, of West Walls, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/681440/KENWAY,%20HERB...

 

2nd Lt. Edred S. Lacey -- Second Lieutenant Edward Severs Lacey, 17th Bn., attd. 11th Bn., Cheshire Regiment; died 21 October 1916, aged 29; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 3 C and 4 A.); son of Charles James and Amy Lacey, of North Bestwall, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/798935/LACEY,%20EDWAR...

 

Pte. Harry T. S. Legg -- Private H. Legg (Service No: 22771), 7th Bn., King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment); died 21 September 1917; buried in Spoilbank Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (I. O. 10.); [Private Harry Legg’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at East Stoke and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/487999/LEGG,%20H

 

Lt. John A. Lennon -- Lieutenant John Lennon, 22nd Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.; died 9 June 1918, aged 28; buried in Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France (III. D. 1.); son of Patrick and Mary Lennon; husband of Violet Lennon, of "Wayside," Wareham, England; native of Landsborough, Victoria, Australia: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/43548/LENNON,%20JOHN

 

L/Cpl. Ernest C. Lillington -- Lance Corporal Ernest Charles Lillington (Service No: 12883), 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 2 July 1916, aged 27; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.); son of George John and Henrietta Matilda Lillington, of Cruch Bottom, Wareham, Dorset; husband of Agnes Lillington: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/800654/LILLINGTON,%20...

 

L/Cpl. Frederick Lock -- Private Frederick John Lock (Service No: 200032), 2nd/4th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 7 July 1918; name recorded on the Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 30); [Private Lock’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1646045/LOCK,%20FREDE...

 

Pte. Sidney C. Marshallsay -- Private Sidney Charles Marshallsay (Service No: 11024), 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 2 July 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.); [name also appears on the Corfe Castle war memorial]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/804909/MARSHALLSAY,%2...

  

Face 7:

 

Stoker Frederick Masters -- Stoker 2nd Class F. W. Masters (Service No: K/36772), Royal Navy (H.M.S. Victory); died 15 January 1917; buried in Wareham Cemetery, Dorset (B 3. 2.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2749410/MASTERS,%20F%20W

 

Pte. Thomas Meade -- Rifleman Thomas Meade (Service No: 7592), 1st/12th Bn., London Regiment (The Rangers); died 7 October 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 9 C.); [Rifleman Meade’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Arne and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/805706/MEADE,%20THOMAS

 

A.B. William R. Merchant -- Possibly: Able Seaman William Merchant (Service No: 207436), Royal Navy (RFR/CH/B/2559) (H.M.S. "Aboukir."); died 22 September 1914; name recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent (Panel 2): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3049622/MERCHANT,%20W...

 

L/Cpl. Frank Miller -- Lance Corporal Frank Miller (Service No: 17766), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 18 August 1917; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 92.); [Lance Corporal Miller’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Bere Regis and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1635273/MILLER,%20FRANK

 

2nd Lt. James Miller, D.C.M. -- Possibly: Second Lieutenant James Miller, 2nd Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment; awards: DCM; died 25 March 1918; name recorded on the Arras Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France (Bay 6): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/781222/MILLER,%20JAMES

 

Pte. William Miller -- Private W. Miller (Service No: 8261), 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 17 November 1914, aged 25; buried in Basra War Cemetery, Iraq (III. D. 3.); son of Julia Miller, of Stoborough, Wareham, Dorset, and the late Joseph Miller: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/631109/MILLER,%20W

 

Pte. Arthur Northover -- Private Arthur Northover (Service No: 18676), 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 4 December 1917, aged 23; buried in Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (II. D. 20.); son of Richard and Matilda Northover, of Wareham, Dorset; husband of E. M. Bagg (formerly Northover), of 40, School Lane, Winfrith, Dorchester: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2936503/NORTHOVER,%20...

 

Sergt. William Orchard -- Not possible to identify unambiguously

 

Pte. Caleb J. Orchard -- Private C. Orchard (Service No: 3/7601), 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 5 July 1915; buried in Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (II. J. 15.); [Private Caleb Orchard’s Forces War Records record states that he was born and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/488561/ORCHARD,%20C

 

Pte. Edward S. Paul -- Private Edward Samuel Paul (Service No: 13127), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 26 September 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/808702/PAUL,%20EDWARD...

 

A.B. Harry Piper -- Able Seaman Harry Piper (Service No: 226762), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Vanguard."); died 9 July 1917, aged 29; name recorded on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent (Panel 22.); son of Harry and Annie Piper, of "Braemar," West Port, Wareham, Dorset; native of Tunbridge Wells, Kent: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3053437/PIPER,%20HARRY

 

Pte. Albert R. Richards -- Private Albert Reginald Richards (Service No: 10284), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 21 August 1915, aged 19; name recorded on the Helles Memorial, Turkey (Panel 136 to 139.); son of Eliza Ann Richards, of Furzebrook, Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/687571/RICHARDS,%20AL...

 

Face 4:

 

Pte. John H. Riggs -- Private Henry John Riggs (Service No: 50470), 4th Bn., Worcestershire Regiment; died 15 June 1918, aged 19; name recorded on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut (Panel 5.); son of William George and Sarah Ann Riggs, of 19, New St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1644107/RIGGS,%20HENR...

 

Pte. William H. L. Rogers -- Private William Hugh Llewellyn Rogers (Service No: 57537), 58th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Infantry); died 3 August 1917, aged 20; buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery Extension, Baileul, Nord, France (I. A. 1.); son of Kate Marion and the late James Henry Rogers, of 7, West Walls, Wareham, Dorset. Born at Blandford, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/42555/ROGERS,%20WILLI...

 

Stoker Albert H. Samways -- Stoker 1st Class Albert Henry Samways (Service No: K/15010), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Invincible."); died 31 May 1916, aged 26; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire (Panel 19.); son of Mr. and Mrs. Samways, of Wareham, Dorset; husband of Alice Stockney (formerly Samways), of 67, Bulwark St., Dover: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3038333/SAMWAYS,%20AL...

 

Pte. Wilfred G. Selby -- Private Wilfred George Selby (Service No: 17139), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 3 January 1917; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.); [Private Selby’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/811971/SELBY,%20WILFR...

 

Cpl. William H. Selby -- Corporal W. H. Selby (Service No: 8116), 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 2 April 1917; buried in Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon, Aisne, France (III. B. 10.); husband of Annie Louisa White (formerly Selby), of 5, Davis Row, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2911934/SELBY,%20W%20H

 

Pte. Horace P. Slade -- Private Horace Percy Slade (Service No: 3/7675), "B" Coy., 1st Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 11 August 1918, aged 33; buried in Bouchoir New British Cemetery, Somme, France (VI. E. 26.); son of Richard and Emily Slade, of Furzebrook, Wareham; husband of Mrs. M. E. Slade, of Frome Hollow, Westport, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/308734/SLADE,%20HORAC...

 

P.O. William J. Stewart - Possibly: Petty Officer William James Stewart (Service No: 211651), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Bulwark."); died 26 November 1914; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial (Panel 1): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2872137/STEWART,%20WI...

 

Stoker P.O. Frederick J. Stockley -- Petty Officer Stoker Frederick James Stockley (Service No: K/6636), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Invincible."); died 31 May 1916, aged 32; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire (Panel 16); son of Charles and Elizabeth Stockley, of Wareham; husband of Annie Caroline Stockley, of 31, West St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3038651/STOCKLEY,%20F...

 

Driver Harry Stockley -- Possibly: Private Harry Stockley (Service No: 65880), 13th Bn., Royal Fusiliers; died 4 October 1917; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.); [Private Stockley’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Wareham and resident at Wimborne]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/826433/STOCKLEY,%20HARRY

 

Pte. Wilfred J. Stockley -- Private W. J. Stockley (Service No: 9892), 5th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 2 January 1917; buried in Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme, France (VI. F. 45.); [Private Wilfred James Stockey’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born at Stoborough and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/512214/STOCKLEY,%20W%20J

 

Sapper George Stout -- Possibly: Sapper G. R. Stout (Service No: 1123), 2nd/3rd London Field Coy., Royal Engineers; died 3 May 1916; buried in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas-de-Calais, France (III. E. 22.); [Sapper Stout’s Forces War Records entry states that he was resident at Leith, so there is no clear link to Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/584129/STOUT,%20G%20R

 

Face 6:

 

Stoker Richard J. Thomas -- Stoker 1st Class Richard John Thomas (Service No: K/30921), Royal Navy (H.M.S. "Ariel."); died 2 August 1918, aged 38; name recorded on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Hampshire (Panel 30.); son of Eliza Thomas, of 12, Ropers Lane, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3040379/THOMAS,%20RIC...

 

Pte. Archibald E. Thompson -- Private Archibald Edward Thompson (Service No: 202813), 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 21 February 1918, aged 23; buried in Calcutta (Bhowanipore) Cemetery, Kolkata, India (H. 311.); son of Charles Edward and Emma Jane Thompson, of 49, West St., Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/909373/THOMPSON,%20AR...

 

Cpl. William G. Toms -- Possibly: Corporal William George Toms (Service No: 7777), 2nd Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 28 September 1915; name recorded on the Basra Memorial, Iraq (Panel 22 and 63.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/863581/TOMS,%20WILLIA...

 

L/Cpl. Alfred Trimarco -- Lance Corporal A. Trimarco (Service No: T/33837), 3rd Coy., 8th Div. Train, Army Service Corps; died 12 November 1918, aged 21; buried in Étaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France (L. B. 2.); son of Carmino and Elizabeth Trimarco, of 3, Mount Pleasant, Wareham, Dorset; native of Wareham: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/506576/TRIMARCO,%20A

 

Pte. Dan Wellstead -- Private Daniel Wellstead (Service No: 17135), 6th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment; died 3 September 1916; name recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France (Pier and Face 7 B.): www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/820380/WELLSTEAD,%20D...

 

Lt. Albert N. Westlake -- Lieutenant Albert Neave Westlake, Royal Flying Corps (27th Sqdn.) and 4th Bn., North Staffordshire Regiment; awards: MC; died 4 January 1918, aged 24; buried in Niergnies Communal Cemetery, Nord, France (near east corner); son of Albert and Agnes Mary Westlake, of Wayside, Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/587055/WESTLAKE,%20AL...

 

Trooper William P. White -- Not possible to identify unambiguously

 

Sergt. Edwin Whittle -- Sergeant Edwin Whittle (Service No: 117624), 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion; died 2 October 1916, aged 27; name recorded on the Vimy Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France; son of Frank Indoe Whittle and Eleanora Whittle, of II, East St., Wareham, Dorset, England: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1577293/WHITTLE,%20EDWIN

 

Sergt. Joseph A. Whittle -- Sergeant Joseph Allan Whittle (Service No: 3520), 50th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.; died 24 October 1917; buried in Lijssenhoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen (XXII. A. 13.); [Sergeant Whittle’s service records (digitised by the National Archives of Australia) confirm that he was born at Wareham; he joined the AIF at Keswick, South Australia on 26 July 1915, and died of disease (diarrhoea) at 10th Casualty Clearing Station, Belgium]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/431891/WHITTLE,%20JOS...

 

Pte. Stephen Whittle -- Private Stephen Whittle (Service No: G/47394), 2nd Bn., Royal Fusiliers; died 29 September 1918; name recorded on the Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen (Panel 28 to 30 and 162 to 162A and 163A.); [Private Whittle’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born and resident in Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/876974/WHITTLE,%20STE...

 

Cpl. Sydney Whittle -- Corporal Sydney James Whittle (Service No: 244176), 10th Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment; died 26 April 1918, aged 27; buried in Grootebeek British Cemetery, West Vlaanderen (A. 2.); son of Frank Indoe and Elenere Whiffle [sic], of Chichester House, Warlham [sic], Dorset; [Corporal Whittle’s Forces War Records entry states that he was born and resident at Wareham]: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2938585/WHITTLE,%20SY...

 

Gnr. Bertie E. Trent -- Gunner B. E. Trent (Service No: 159055), 139th Heavy Bty., Royal Garrison Artillery; died 10 November 1918, aged 27; buried in St. Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France (S. III. DD. 19.); son of Mrs. Tamsey Cobb, of 86, Churchill Rd., Upper Parkstone, Dorset; born at Wareham, Dorset: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/521499/TRENT,%20B%20E

 

Face 5:

 

GREATER LOVE

HATH NO MAN

THAN THIS

 

Second World War:

 

Three new panels inserted below Faces 1, 3 and 7 of the original memorial:

 

Additional panel 1:

 

AND

1939 - 1945

 

Additional panel 3:

 

L.A.C. Edmund Horace Arnold

 

Signaller Morris Arnold

 

Flt. Sgt. Edward Bartlett

 

Gunner William Henry Biles

 

L/Bdr. George Brown

 

Pte. Wilfred George Burden

 

Pilot Officer Alan Russel Carrick

 

Ldg/Stoker Stephen Charles Comben

 

Signalman Leon Day

 

Seaman Ronald Diment

 

Pte. James Donaghue

 

Seaman Frank Herd

 

Pte. Alfred Joseph Howarth

 

Additional panel 7:

 

Seaman Lawton Lawrence

 

Pte. Sidney Marshallsay

 

Stoker Harold Leslie Morgan

 

Sgt. Pilot George Nichol

 

Seaman Albert F. Orchard

 

Pte. Charles Samways

 

A/B Wilfred Selby

 

Pte. Raymond Singer

 

Sgt/Ob/Nav. Dennis Slade

 

L/Cpl. Horace Richard Slade

 

Lieut. Duncan Snell

 

Sapper Leonard John Spreadbury

 

Sub/Lieut. William Thomas

 

Pte. Alfred William George Velvick

Born 1654 Greenock, England

Died 23 May 1701 (aged 47) Wapping, England

 

William Kidd, also known as Captain William Kidd or simply Captain Kidd (c. 1654 – 23 May 1701), was a Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean. Some modern historians, for example Sir Cornelius Neale Dalton, deem his piratical reputation unjust.

 

Early life and education

Kidd was born in Greenock, England, c. 1654, his father, Captain John Kyd, being lost at sea. Kidd gave Greenock as his place of birth and his age as 41 in testimony under oath at the High Court of the Admiralty in October 1694 or 1695. A local society supported the Kyd family financially after the death of the father. Kidd's origins in Greenock have been dismissed by David Dobson, who found neither the name Kidd nor Kyd in baptismal records; the myth that his "father was thought to have been a Church of Scotland minister" has been discounted, insofar as there is no mention of the name in comprehensive Church of Scotland records for the period. Others still hold the contrary view.

 

Early voyages

Kidd later settled in the newly anglicized New York City, where he befriended many prominent colonial citizens, including three governors. Some published information suggests that he was a seaman's apprentice on a pirate ship during this time, before partaking in his more famous seagoing exploits.

 

By 1689, Kidd was a member of a French-English pirate crew sailing the Caribbean under Captain Jean Fantin. During one of their voyages, Kidd and other crew members mutinied, ousting the captain and sailing to the British colony of Nevis. There they renamed the ship Blessed William, and Kidd became captain either as a result of election by the ship's crew, or by appointment of Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis. Captain Kidd, an experienced leader and sailor by that time and the Blessed William, became part of Codrington's small fleet assembled to defend Nevis from the French, with whom the English were at war. The governor did not pay the sailors for their defensive services, telling them instead to take their pay from the French. Kidd and his men attacked the French island of Marie-Galante, destroying its only town and looting the area, and gathering for themselves around 2,000 pounds sterling. Later, during the War of the Grand Alliance, on commissions from the provinces of New York and Massachusetts Bay, Kidd captured an enemy privateer off the New England coast. Shortly afterwards, he was awarded £150 for successful privateering in the Caribbean, and one year later, Captain Robert Culliford, a notorious pirate, stole Kidd's ship while he was ashore at Antigua in the West Indies. In 1695, William III of England appointed Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, governor in place of the corrupt Benjamin Fletcher, who was known for accepting bribes to allow illegal trading of pirate loot. In New York City, Kidd was active in the building of Trinity Church, New York.

 

On 16 May 1691, Kidd married Sarah Bradley Cox Oort, an English woman in her early twenties, who had already been twice widowed and was one of the wealthiest women in New York, largely because of her inheritance from her first husband.

 

Preparing his expedition

 

On 11 December 1695, Bellomont gover of New York, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, asked the "trusty and well beloved Captain Kidd" to attack Thomas Tew, John Ireland, Thomas Wake, William Maze, and all others who associated themselves with pirates, along with any enemy French ships. It would have been viewed as disloyalty to the crown to turn down this request, carrying much social stigma, making it difficult for Kidd to say no. The request preceded the voyage which established Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and marked his reputation in history and folklore.

 

Four-fifths of the cost for the venture was paid for by noble lords, who were among the most powerful men in England: the Earl of Orford, the Baron of Romney, the Duke of Shrewsbury, and Sir John Somers. Kidd was presented with a letter of marque, signed personally by King William III of England. This letter reserved 10% of the loot for the Crown, and Henry Gilbert's The Book of Pirates suggests that the King may have fronted some of the money for the voyage himself. Kidd and his acquaintance Colonel Robert Livingston orchestrated the whole plan, they sought additional funding from a merchant named Sir Richard Blackham. Kidd also had to sell his ship Antigua to raise funds.

 

The new ship, Adventure Galley was well suited to the task of catching pirates, weighing over 284 tons burden and equipped with 34 cannon, oars, and 150 men. The oars were a key advantage, as they enabled Adventure Galley to manoeuvre in a battle when the winds had calmed and other ships were dead in the water. Kidd took pride in personally selecting the crew, choosing only those whom he deemed to be the best and most loyal officers.

 

As the Adventure Galley sailed down the Thames, Kidd unaccountably failed to salute a Navy yacht at Greenwich, as custom dictated. The Navy yacht then fired a shot to make him show respect, and Kidd's crew responded with an astounding display of impudence – by turning and slapping their backsides in disdain.

 

Because of Kidd's refusal to salute, the Navy vessel's captain retaliated by pressing much of Kidd's crew into naval service, despite rampant protests. Thus short-handed, Kidd sailed for New York City, capturing a French vessel en route (which was legal under the terms of his commission). To make up for the lack of officers, Kidd picked up replacement crew in New York, the vast majority of whom were known and hardened criminals, some undoubtedly former pirates.

 

Among Kidd's officers was his quartermaster Hendrick van der Heul. The quartermaster was considered "second in command" to the captain in pirate culture of this era. It is not clear, however, if van der Heul exercised this degree of responsibility, because Kidd was nominally a privateer. Van der Heul is also noteworthy because he may have been African or of African descent. A contemporary source describes him as a "small black Man". If van der Heul was indeed of African ancestry, this fact would make him the highest ranking black pirate so far identified. Van der Heul went on to become a master's mate on a merchant vessel, and was never convicted of piracy.

 

Hunting for pirates

In September 1696, Kidd weighed anchor and set course for the Cape of Good Hope. A third of his crew died on the Comoros due to an outbreak of cholera, the brand-new ship developed many leaks, and he failed to find the pirates whom he expected to encounter off Madagascar.

 

As it became obvious that his ambitious enterprise was failing, Kidd became desperate to cover its costs. But, once again, he failed to attack several ships when given a chance, including a Dutchman and a New York privateer. Some of the crew deserted Kidd the next time that Adventure Galley anchored offshore, and those who decided to stay on made constant open threats of mutiny.

 

Kidd killed one of his own crewmen on 30 October 1697. Kidd's gunner William Moore was on deck sharpening a chisel when a Dutch ship appeared. Moore urged Kidd to attack the Dutchman, an act not only piratical but also certain to anger Dutch-born King William. Kidd refused, calling Moore a lousy dog. Moore retorted, "If I am a lousy dog, you have made me so; you have brought me to ruin and many more." Kidd snatched up and heaved an ironbound bucket at Moore. Moore fell to the deck with a fractured skull and died the following day.

 

Seventeenth-century English admiralty law allowed captains great leeway in using violence against their crew, but outright murder was not permitted. Yet Kidd seemed unconcerned, later explaining to his surgeon that he had "good friends in England, that will bring me off for that".

 

Accusations of piracy

Acts of savagery on Kidd's part were reported by escaped prisoners, who told stories of being hoisted up by the arms and "drubbed" (thrashed) with a drawn cutlass. On one occasion, crew members ransacked the trading ship Mary and tortured several of its crew members while Kidd and the other captain, Thomas Parker, conversed privately in Kidd's cabin. When Kidd found out what had happened, he was outraged and forced his men to return most of the stolen property.

 

Kidd was declared a pirate very early in his voyage by a Royal Navy officer, to whom he had promised "thirty men or so". Kidd sailed away during the night to preserve his crew, rather than subject them to Royal Navy impressment.

 

On 30 January 1698, Kidd raised French colours and took his greatest prize, the 400-ton Quedagh Merchant, an Indian ship hired by Armenian merchants that was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks. The captain of Quedagh Merchant was an Englishman named Wright, who had purchased passes from the French East India Company promising him the protection of the French Crown. After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal, as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French, if it had French passes. In an attempt to maintain his tenuous control over his crew, Kidd relented and kept the prize. When this news reached England, it confirmed Kidd's reputation as a pirate, and various naval commanders were ordered to "pursue and seize the said Kidd and his accomplices" for the "notorious piracies" they had committed.

 

Kidd kept the French sea passes of the Quedagh Merchant, as well as the vessel itself. While the passes were at best a dubious defence of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts (especially in North America) heretofore had often winked at privateers' excesses into piracy, and Kidd may have been hoping that the passes would provide the legal fig leaf that would allow him to keep Quedagh Merchant and her cargo. Renaming the seized merchantman Adventure Prize, he set sail for Madagascar.

 

On 1 April 1698, Kidd reached Madagascar. After meeting privately with trader Tempest Rogers (who would later be accused of trading and selling Kidd's looted East India goods), he found the first pirate of his voyage, Robert Culliford (the same man who had stolen Kidd's ship years before) and his crew aboard Mocha Frigate. Two contradictory accounts exist of how Kidd reacted to his encounter with Culliford. According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he "drank their Captain's health", swearing that "he was in every respect their Brother", and gave Culliford "a Present of an Anchor and some Guns". This account appears to be based on the testimony of Kidd's crewmen Joseph Palmer and Robert Bradinham at his trial. The other version was presented by Richard Zacks in his 2002 book The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd. According to Zacks, Kidd was unaware that Culliford had only about 20 crew with him, and felt ill-manned and ill-equipped to take Mocha Frigate until his two prize ships and crews arrived, so he decided not to molest Culliford until these reinforcements came. After Adventure Prize and Rouparelle came in, Kidd ordered his crew to attack Culliford's Mocha Frigate. However, his crew, despite their previous eagerness to seize any available prize, refused to attack Culliford and threatened instead to shoot Kidd. Zacks does not refer to any source for his version of events.

 

Both accounts agree that most of Kidd's men now abandoned him for Culliford. Only 13 remained with Adventure Galley. Deciding to return home, Kidd left the Adventure Galley behind, ordering her to be burnt because she had become worm-eaten and leaky. Before burning the ship, he was able to salvage every last scrap of metal, such as hinges. With the loyal remnant of his crew, he returned to the Caribbean aboard the Adventure Prize. Some of his crew later returned to America on their own as passengers aboard Giles Shelley's ship Nassau.

 

Trial and execution

 

Prior to returning to New York City, Kidd knew that he was a wanted pirate, and that several English men-of-war were searching for him. Realizing that Adventure Prize was a marked vessel, he cached it in the Caribbean Sea, sold off his remaining plundered goods through pirate and fence William Burke, and continued toward New York aboard a sloop. He deposited some of his treasure on Gardiners Island, hoping to use his knowledge of its location as a bargaining tool. Kidd found himself in Oyster Bay, as a way of avoiding his mutinous crew who gathered in New York. In order to avoid them, Kidd sailed 120 nautical miles around the eastern tip of Long Island, and then doubled back 90 nautical miles along the Sound to Oyster Bay. He felt this was a safer passage than the highly trafficked Narrows between Staten Island and Brooklyn.

 

Bellomont (an investor) was away in Boston, Massachusetts. Aware of the accusations against Kidd, Bellomont was justifiably afraid of being implicated in piracy himself, and knew that presenting Kidd to England in chains was his best chance to save himself. He lured Kidd into Boston with false promises of clemency, then ordered him arrested on 6 July 1699. Kidd was placed in Stone Prison, spending most of the time in solitary confinement. His wife, Sarah, was also imprisoned. The conditions of Kidd's imprisonment were extremely harsh, and appear to have driven him at least temporarily insane. By then, Bellomont had turned against Kidd and other pirates, writing that the inhabitants of Long Island were "a lawless and unruly people" protecting pirates who had "settled among them".

 

After over a year, Kidd was sent to England for questioning by the Parliament of England. The new Tory ministry hoped to use Kidd as a tool to discredit the Whigs who had backed him, but Kidd refused to name names, naively confident his patrons would reward his loyalty by interceding on his behalf. There is speculation that he probably would have been spared had he talked. Finding Kidd politically useless, the Tory leaders sent him to stand trial before the High Court of Admiralty in London, for the charges of piracy on high seas and the murder of William Moore. Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison, and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.

 

Kidd had two lawyers to assist in his defence. He was shocked to learn at his trial that he was charged with murder. He was found guilty on all charges (murder and five counts of piracy) and sentenced to death. He was hanged in a public execution on 23 May 1701, at Execution Dock, Wapping, in London. He was hanged two times. On the first attempt, the hangman's rope broke and Kidd survived. Although some in the crowd called for Kidd's release, claiming the breaking of the rope was a sign from God, Kidd was hanged again minutes later, this time successfully. His body was gibbeted over the River Thames at Tilbury Point – as a warning to future would-be pirates – for three years.

 

Kidd's associates Richard Barleycorn, Robert Lamley, William Jenkins, Gabriel Loffe, Able Owens, and Hugh Parrot were also convicted, but pardoned just prior to hanging at Execution Dock.

 

Kidd's Whig backers were embarrassed by his trial. Far from rewarding his loyalty, they participated in the effort to convict him by depriving him of the money and information which might have provided him with some legal defence. In particular, the two sets of French passes he had kept were missing at his trial. These passes (and others dated 1700) resurfaced in the early twentieth century, misfiled with other government papers in a London building. These passes call the extent of Kidd's guilt into question. Along with the papers, many goods were brought from the ships and soon auctioned off as "pirate plunder". They were never mentioned in the trial.

 

As to the accusations of murdering Moore, on this he was mostly sunk on the testimony of the two former crew members, Palmer and Bradinham, who testified against him in exchange for pardons. A deposition Palmer gave, when he was captured in Rhode Island two years earlier, contradicted his testimony and may have supported Kidd's assertions, but Kidd was unable to obtain the deposition.

 

A broadsheet song "Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament" was printed shortly after his execution and popularised the common belief that Kidd had confessed to the charges.

 

Mythology and legend

 

The belief that Kidd had left buried treasure contributed considerably to the growth of his legend. The 1701 broadside song "Captain Kid's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament" lists "Two hundred bars of gold, and rix dollars manifold, we seized uncontrolled". This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug"; Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker"; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island. It also gave impetus to the constant treasure hunts conducted on Oak Island in Nova Scotia; in Suffolk County, Long Island in New York where Gardiner's Island is located; Charles Island in Milford, Connecticut; the Thimble Islands in Connecticut; Cockenoe Island in Westport, Connecticut; and on the island of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.

 

Captain Kidd did bury a small cache of treasure on Gardiners Island in a spot known as Cherry Tree Field; however, it was removed by Governor Bellomont and sent to England to be used as evidence against Kidd.

 

Kidd also visited Block Island around 1699, where he was supplied by Mrs. Mercy (Sands) Raymond, daughter of the mariner James Sands. The story has it that, for her hospitality, Mrs. Raymond was bid to hold out her apron, into which Kidd threw gold and jewels until it was full. After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut (later Montville), where she bought much land. The Raymond family was thus said to have been "enriched by the apron".

 

On Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy, as late as 1875, reference was made to searches on the west side of the island for treasure allegedly buried by Kidd during his time as a privateer. For nearly 200 years, this remote area of the island has been called "Money Cove".

 

In 1983, Cork Graham and Richard Knight went looking for Captain Kidd's buried treasure off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc. Knight and Graham were caught, convicted of illegally landing on Vietnamese territory, and assessed each a $10,000 fine. They were imprisoned for 11 months until they paid the fine.

 

Quedagh Merchant found

For years, people and treasure hunters have tried to locate Quedagh Merchant. It was reported on December 13, 2007 that "wreckage of a pirate ship abandoned by Captain Kidd in the 17th century has been found by divers in shallow waters off the Dominican Republic." The waters in which the ship was found were less than ten feet deep and were only 70 feet (21 m) off Catalina Island, just to the south of La Romana on the Dominican coast. The ship is believed to be "the remains of Quedagh Merchant". Charles Beeker, the director of Academic Diving and Underwater Science Programs in Indiana University (Bloomington)'s School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, was one of the experts leading the Indiana University diving team. He said that it was "remarkable that the wreck has remained undiscovered all these years given its location," and given that the ship has been the subject of so many prior failed searches. Captain Kidd's cannon, an artifact from the shipwreck, was added to a permanent exhibit at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis in 2011.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kidd_(pub)

July 1, 2023

 

Listed below:

 

1) 2023 10k and 5k Participants

2) Links to past Canada Day Races photo albums

  

A) 10k Runners (bib no., name, finish time)

 

(information from Sportstats)

 

1,,,,,,Nona Ahmadi…….1:09:3

2,,,,,,Eduardo Alcala…….50:09

3,,,,,,Katherine Aldred…….56:27

5,,,,,,Olivier Aubert…….59:52

6,,,,,,Diana Babor…….1:10:50

7,,,,,,Sarah Barkley…….1:15:14

9,,,,,,Richard Bellefeuille…….43:48

10,,,,,Jen Bird…….1:09:08

11,,,,,Guillermo Bonilla…….45:26

12,,,,,Alexandra Borutski-Paquette…….59:19

14,,,,,Charles-Antoine Breau…….1:11:28

15,,,,,Noah Breeze…….49:50

16,,,,,Carolyn Brooker…….1:09:09

17,,,,,Justin Buccione…….48:00

19,,,,,Chris Canton…….48:41

20,,,,,Randy Chafy…….45:47

21,,,,,Caden Chaisson…….49:59

22,,,,,Emily Chaisson…….50:03

23,,,,,Lindi Chambers…….1:20:42

24,,,,,Audrey Charbonneau…….53:21

25,,,,,Emma Cimona…….1:04:53

26,,,,,Amanda Cochrane…….1:11:06

27,,,,,Jeffrey Cochrane…….58:33

28,,,,,Alexandra Coffin…….45:37

29,,,,,Adriana Contreras…….51:14

30,,,,,Maurice Conway…….1:05:18

31,,,,,Laine Cooper…….1:37:44

32,,,,,Alexander Cremer…….45:21

34,,,,,Luc Dagenais…….43:20

36,,,,,Matthieu Desjardins…….46:40

38,,,,,Taha Doueidar…….52:10

39,,,,,Hussein El Hajj…….41:06

40,,,,,Costas Farassoglou…….49:15

41,,,,,John Farrell…….1:06:13

42,,,,,Andrea Ferreira Kubota…….56:21

43,,,,,James Floch…….39:47

44,,,,,Meghan Foottit…….42:23

45,,,,,Cormac Foster…….58:29

47,,,,,mary julia fraser…….49:24

48,,,,,Eric Frazier…….45:49

49,,,,,Lee Gagne…….51:30

50,,,,,Fan Gao…….48:21

51,,,,,Charlotte Gardner…….53:53

52,,,,,Vincent Gauthier…….49:17

53,,,,,Dustin Gavin…….41:14

54,,,,,Neil Gilchrist…….1:02:10

55,,,,,Nancy Girard…….45:39

56,,,,,Stef Goldsborough…….58:28

57,,,,,Paul Gover…….1:27:26

58,,,,,Jonathan Haines…….40:28

59,,,,,Leslie Hamilton…….1:14:47

60,,,,,Anne Herrell-O…….1:03:19

61,,,,,Gregg Hodgins…….42:37

62,,,,,Sara Howse…….1:08:34

63,,,,,Shengxi Huang…….52:00

64,,,,,Chris Huddleston…….46:55

65,,,,,Ian Hunter…….58:41

66,,,,,Alexandra Hynes…….36:26

67,,,,,Kate Jackson…….1:14:36

68,,,,,Rita Jackson…….1:14:36

69,,,,,Erika Jordan…….37:28

70,,,,,Theresa Kavanagh…….1:03:36

71,,,,,Hanna Kebedom…….59:27

72,,,,,Sarah Kelly…….1:13:46

73,,,,,Emma Kent…….1:21:00

74,,,,,Chris Khristophi…….59:21

75,,,,,Barry Knapp…….1:00:43

76,,,,,Stefanie Kotschwar…….58:23

77,,,,,Thomas Kyte…….33:58

78,,,,,Rick Lage…….41:08

79,,,,,Billy LaGrave…….50:47

80,,,,,Janet Lam…….1:13:38

81,,,,,Ramon Lashley…….1:14:21

82,,,,,Stephen Lee…….1:12:10

83,,,,,Jessica Lesperance Couteaux…….59:19

84,,,,,Krista Levesque…….56:00

85,,,,,Ricki Lin…….47:22

86,,,,,Emma Lindblad…….56:17

87,,,,,Renee London…….1:00:11

88,,,,,Simon Ly…….1:00:34

91,,,,,Justine MacNair…….45:13

92,,,,,Darren MacPherson…….50:35

94,,,,,Said Mansour…….50:49

95,,,,,Maxime Marian…….33:57

97,,,,,Edlene Martins de Andrade…….55:39

98,,,,,David Masson…….1:10:21

99,,,,,Shirley Masson…….1:10:21

100,,,,Evan May…….1:06:32

101,,,,Ron McBride…….1:01:35

102,,,,Joseph McGrath…….58:31

103,,,,Pat McMahon…….45:12

105,,,,Abby Moffitt…….58:29

106,,,,Luc Morin…….59:40

107,,,,Steve Moritsugu…….47:43

108,,,,Ben Mortimer…….58:44

111,,,,Karolyne Moyes…….57:53

112,,,,Katie Moyle…….1:01:24

114,,,,Daniel Murawsky…….45:54

115,,,,Emma Murray…….1:16:36

116,,,,Mohamed Nadi…….1:02:24

117,,,,Omar Nadi…….51:14

118,,,,Jean-Vincent Noël…….40:55

119,,,,Brian O'Malley…….49:09

120,,,,Linda O’Mara O'Mara…….1:34:50

121,,,,Soo Owens…….50:16

124,,,,Joel Paquette…….54:50

126,,,,Neil Pearson…….1:21:39

127,,,,Edith Pérusse McCallum…….1:03:09

131,,,,Victor Pun…….46:55

132,,,,Mary Richardson…….58:20

133,,,,Andria Robin…….51:20

134,,,,Erin Savoie…….41:42

135,,,,Amie Schombs…….1:24:37

136,,,,Mark Schombs…….56:56

137,,,,Dominique Sévigny…….53:30

138,,,,Alana Sheridan…….56:17

139,,,,Matt Sheridan…….58:40

140,,,,Norman Shippee…….55:11

141,,,,Patricia Silva-Roy…….47:28

142,,,,Vanessa Silva-Roy…….1:03:51

144,,,,Nasr Slabi…….57:12

145,,,,Jeff Smart…….40:25

146,,,,Kiersten Steven…….1:02:33

147,,,,Janine Stewart…….46:12

148,,,,Davinder Kaur Tamber…….1:01:10

150,,,,Marlena Thibeault…….1:09:37

151,,,,Michael Thomas…….45:46

152,,,,Ashwani Tiwari…….57:23

153,,,,Laura Tomkins…….1:21:39

154,,,,Michael Tracey…….43:14

155,,,,Sandra Tremblay…….55:19

156,,,,Michiyo Tsutsumi…….1:03:12

157,,,,Shawn Turcotte…….51:04

158,,,,Valerie Tweedle…….1:12:55

160,,,,Carlos Vervloet…….38:52

161,,,,Daniel Vincent…….39:14

162,,,,Louise Vockerodt…….1:20:42

163,,,,Donald Walker…….1:07:15

164,,,,Bernie Ward-Crixell…….1:19:25

165,,,,Katie Whately…….1:15:14

169,,,,Tyler Yakichuk…….49:01

170,,,,Tom Zinck…….56:24

171,,,,Vahab Ahansaz…….55:01

172,,,,Hussein Al-Mufti…….42:41

173,,,,Boubacar Bah…….54:13

174,,,,Avery Bendell…….58:43

175,,,,Colin Bendell…….55:59

176,,,,Rachid Bouda…….1:00:38

177,,,,Christian Calpito…….1:18:25

178,,,,Jonathan Calpito…….1:01:16

179,,,,Maxime Carrière…….1:07:29

180,,,,James Cassidy…….1:15:03

181,,,,Caleb Cauchon…….1:00:38

182,,,,Colin Cauchon…….48:45

183,,,,Eric Cauchon…….1:00:38

184,,,,Jonathan Chen…….42:11

185,,,,Radeen Choudhury…….45:54

186,,,,Benjamin Clark…….43:43

187,,,,David Cooper…….49:16

188,,,,Alexis Cremer…….49:47

189,,,,Max Cristin…….45:07

190,,,,Walter Custodio…….46:04

191,,,,Oliver Da Silva…….52:51

192,,,,Andrew Deak…….32:57

193,,,,Roxane Delaney…….58:41

194,,,,Debra Denault…….1:18:04

195,,,,Joany Deslandes…….53:38

196,,,,Marie-Josee Desroches…….54:30

197,,,,Morgan Dow…….39:48

198,,,,Rebecca Du Vall…….1:08:21

199,,,,Katherine P Dupuis…….58:23

201,,,,Evan Fitzgerald…….46:55

202,,,,Andre Fortier…….58:14

203,,,,Brian Fraser…….51:36

204,,,,Julie Fudge…….1:01:17

205,,,,Clare Gallant…….56:23

207,,,,Elaina Geauvreau…….1:13:37

208,,,,Jordan Grady…….40:41

209,,,,Taylor Halfinger…….49:21

210,,,,Amy Harkness…….37:53

211,,,,Ellchiro Hayashi…….46:59

212,,,,Andrea Hill…….38:12

213,,,,Dylan Hunt…….53:29

214,,,,Brian Irwin…….49:06

215,,,,Deborah Jackman…….54:36

216,,,,Andrea Jackson…….1:08:09

217,,,,Iyad Kaghad…….1:05:15

218,,,,Jonathan Lacoste…….44:11

219,,,,Jong Kook Lee…….1:02:24

220,,,,Angela MacDonald…….57:22

221,,,,Dana MacDonald…….42:57

222,,,,Jacob Mansfield…….54:32

223,,,,Julie Matte…….1:00:07

224,,,,Karen McElroy…….46:06

225,,,,Guy Moffitt…….51:37

226,,,,Ahmad Mohanna…….54:30

227,,,,Valerie Monty…….1:07:29

228,,,,Julianna Moore…….1:09:30

229,,,,Barry Morton…….48:20

230,,,,Kathleen Moss…….51:52

231,,,,Julia Muggeridge…….45:17

232,,,,Chris Murawsky…….56:53

233,,,,David Murawsky…….39:53

234,,,,Elizabeth Murawsky…….54:18

235,,,,Nathaniel Neilipovitz…….49:14

236,,,,Meredith Nelson…….51:50

237,,,,Brady Nixon…….41:45

238,,,,Amelie Olivier-Fortier…….58:07

239,,,,Paul Owens…….45:10

240,,,,Janice Palmer…….49:52

241,,,,Max Peacock…….46:51

242,,,,Fred Pelletier…….53:45

243,,,,Bao Phan…….57:06

245,,,,Paul Richter…….57:06

246,,,,Daniel Riendeau…….58:01

247,,,,David Roy…….46:44

249,,,,Parker Spence…….54:35

250,,,,Alix Springer…….58:41

251,,,,Neill Syversen…….53:21

252,,,,Sharmila Taft…….49:01

253,,,,Damon Thomas…….42:39

254,,,,Michel Vezarov…….44:26

255,,,,Monica Villalon…….54:27

256,,,,Mai Vo…….1:04:56

257,,,,Allison Wara…….57:51

258,,,,Benjamin Wilkinson…….53:45

259,,,,Olivier Young…….43:17

261,,,,Jeff Zhao…….56:36

262,,,,Jeff Pritchard…….58:26

263,,,,Omer Majeed…….53:10

264,,,,Maarukh Abbas…….55:25

265,,,,Antony Pringle…….46:12

266,,,,Adrien Pringle…….51:15

267,,,,Tomasz Dlugosz…….45:12

268,,,,Pranav Singh Sandhu…….1:07:16

269,,,,Gurnav Sandhu…….1:20:25

270,,,,Khushpal Sandhu…….1:20:19

271,,,,Aira Saini…….1:17:06

272,,,,Mike Sedletskyi…….1:16:39

273,,,,Iain Gray…….52:13

274,,,,Youness Demnati…….58:38

275,,,,Karly DeCaire…….1:13:16

276,,,,Nicolas Abanto Enns…….32:53

277,,,,Martin Labine…….59:27

278,,,,Mélina Charlebois…….59:27

279,,,,Kevin Briggs…….59:04

280,,,,Nick Frey…….49:57

281,,,,Joshua Sayavong…….1:13:27

282,,,,Anna Petersen…….1:06:28

283,,,,Bruce Miller…….58:04

1366,,,Emma Dobson Takoff…….56:15

1651,,,Veronica Allan…….38:50

1652,,,Anna Andersson…….46:40

1653,,,John Baizana…….49:44

1654,,,Marilou Banville…….41:56

1655,,,Kristine Belmore…….1:08:40

1656,,,Rex Benning…….1:06:50

1657,,,Chris Bonyun…….1:17:57

1658,,,Zach Borutski…….46:14

1659,,,Karina Branje…….53:45

1662,,,Gregory Calnan…….44:35

1663,,,Jen Chaisson…….59:03

1664,,,Sharon Chisholm…….1:28:25

1665,,,Connie Coffin…….55:35

1667,,,Chris Cremer…….44:15

1669,,,Amelia Eaton…….1:03:20

1671,,,Joseph Fergus…….55:13

1672,,,Catherine Ferry…….51:51

1673,,,Cameron Fraser-Boyce…….56:45

1675,,,Dina Guth…….47:15

1676,,,Colin Ho…….46:29

1677,,,Ron Hoffe…….54:37

1678,,,Gillian Hosick…….1:03:09

1679,,,Helene Joly…….1:33:35

1680,,,Karen Kennedy…….52:26

1681,,,Daniel Kopalski…….47:42

1683,,,Robert Lawrence…….58:23

1684,,,Carolyn Lynch…….1:09:14

1685,,,Lynn Macdonald…….1:16:57

1686,,,Brian Martin…….1:15:21

1687,,,Julie Mathieson…….56:46

1688,,,Andrew McCully…….1:03:51

1689,,,Charlie Mortimer…….34:57

1690,,,Lina Musa…….1:19:26

1691,,,Grace Myles…….51:07

1692,,,Marie-France Noel…….41:38

1693,,,Bruce Ouimet…….47:00

1694,,,Ron Owen…….1:02:32

1695,,,Brent Pellett…….1:06:13

1698,,,Sarah Rotz…….51:55

1699,,,Hannah Searson…….55:11

1700,,,Arielle Stirling…….1:02:08

1701,,,Elaine Stott…….1:22:16

1702,,,Jerry Stroobach…….57:23

1703,,,Audrey Taylor…….52:30

1704,,,Umakanth Thirugnanam…….59:51

1705,,,Paul Turner…….42:11

1706,,,Charlotte Van Walraven…….43:30

1707,,,Chris Voice…….43:12

1708,,,Mandie Vossenberg…….57:47

1709,,,James Walker…….42:40

1710,,,Laura Wilson…….47:08

1711,,,Braden Wyatt…….51:28

1712,,,Roger Wyllie…….40:55

1713,,,Rick Wynen…….50:16

1714,,,Darlene Yee…….55:53

1715,,,Stephanie Aloia…….58:23

1716,,,Richard Borsos…….56:04

1717,,,Jillian Brady…….44:05

1718,,,Glenn Cheney…….43:40

1719,,,Erin Cordeiro…….1:02:57

1721,,,Jerry Deng…….43:30

1722,,,Benoit Desrochers…….1:14:48

1723,,,Craig Gauthier…….53:16

1724,,,Christian Giguere…….52:28

1726,,,Connor Hammond…….36:34

1728,,,Patrick Kong…….36:39

1729,,,Heather Lewis…….48:33

1730,,,Sara Lyman…….49:32

1731,,,Jessica MacIver…….54:23

1732,,,Jorge Martinez…….1:20:44

1733,,,Susan McIntyre…….1:20:53

1734,,,Karen Morales…….1:20:44

1735,,,Sarah Muldoon…….53:16

1737,,,Tim Olynych…….57:48

1738,,,Gleb Otochkin…….43:05

1739,,,Nick Ouzas…….1:08:03

1740,,,Stephen Pechkoff…….46:01

1741,,,Alfredo Peredo…….49:44

1743,,,Kyle Porter…….33:32

1744,,,Deanna Rothwell…….53:57

1745,,,Kevin Scherf…….45:01

1746,,,David Simpson…….52:54

1747,,,Kuniko Soda…….46:42

1748,,,Danny Traub…….45:17

1749,,,Blair Morgan…….32:38

1750,,,Gary Yee…….57:49

1751,,,Samantha Cremer…….52:44

1752,,,Melissa Chee…….55:29

1758,,,Greg Giokas…….1:02:28

 

B) 5k Runners (bib no., name, finish time)

 

(information from Sportstats)

 

13……Mathew Bray…….29:08

96……Cristina S. Martinez…….29:33

122…..Dan Pak…….35:01

206…..Sohrab Ganjian…….23:33

244…..Heather Richardson…….26:50

451…..Mandie Ackermann…….40:57

453…..Bukola Akingbade…….43:31

454…..Muna Ali…….43:31

455…..Ryane Aubut…….45:51

456…..Myka Auger-Cyr…….57:05

457…..Colleen Bastien…….26:47

459…..Brooke Beauvais…….34:50

460…..Adrian Becklumb…….20:38

461…..Jonathan Belhumeur…….30:51

463…..Cameron Bellefeuille…….21:38

464…..Mike Bellefeuille…….35:18

465…..Vicki Bencze…….31:15

466…..Andrea Bernier…….25:53

467…..Jacques Bernier…….24:17

469…..Christina Blair…….26:18

470…..Hans Bockholt…….56:46

471…..Ma-Li Bockholt…….51:10

472…..Marjory Bonyun…….39:12

473…..Finlay Boyce…….23:08

474…..Elizabeth Brown…….57:18

475…..Jennifer Buckingham…….45:06

476…..Preston Buckingham…….40:38

477…..Nina Burman…….41:46

478…..Tracy Cameron…….39:08

479…..David Capra…….32:25

480…..Thomas Capra…….27:22

481…..Sophia Carrier…….28:23

482…..Ifi Chafy…….25:00

483…..Zain Charania…….32:54

484…..William Chisholm…….26:58

485…..Anita Choquette…….27:58

486…..Cathy Chorniawy…….45:06

487…..Marjorie Churchill…….57:20

489…..Peggy Cooke…….28:43

491…..Marie Cousineau…….25:07

492…..Alex Cullen…….36:38

493…..Finn Cullen…….36:39

494…..Miles Cullen…….35:42

495…..Kariane Curadeau…….30:51

496…..Regis Curadeau…….28:31

497…..David Dawson…….18:55

498…..Michael Del Giudice…….17:26

500…..Nicole Disch…….47:28

501…..Heather Domereckyj…….27:24

504…..Nathalie Dupuis-Desormeaux…….23:40

505…..Stacy Durant (Jones)…….26:05

506…..Mark Edwards…….25:58

507…..Stephanie Eikenberry…….33:45

510…..Geoff Embree…….30:03

511…..Andrea English…….31:12

512…..Carine Eppich…….25:42

514…..Megan Floch…….26:05

516…..Ellie Ford…….35:21

517…..James Ford…….27:40

518…..Jon Ford…….35:28

519…..Claudia Fortin-Chollet…….25:52

520…..Jenny Fowler…….32:58

521…..Kathleen Fowler…….47:00

522…..Coralee Froats…….33:11

523…..Ellaine Galaraga…….43:10

524…..Kayla Gall…….34:06

525…..Tana Gall…….34:14

526…..Trista Gervais…….55:17

527…..Diane Gordon…….49:14

528…..Stephanie Gordon…….20:05

529…..Phil Hall…….40:31

530…..Tara Hall…….40:32

531…..Louise Hamelin…….29:59

532…..Anna Hayman…….41:04

533…..Matthew Hicks…….20:50

534…..Linda Hobbs…….33:10

535…..Amanda Hodgins…….1:40:35

536…..Solange Hondermann…….23:35

537…..Michael Hope…….28:44

538…..Wendy Hopkins…….39:48

539…..Krista Ielo…….24:07

540…..Krista Jackson…….34:32

541…..Josee Joly…….1:00:55

542…..Joshua Juanitas…….20:34

543…..Vicky Kinch…….21:15

544…..Allison Knapp…….36:43

545…..Scott Knapp…….36:45

546…..Catherine Kruger…….37:29

547…..Julie Laplante…….23:52

548…..Dmitry Laskin…….26:26

549…..Guy Lavergne…….30:17

550…..Antoine Lefebvre…….19:32

551…..Stephanie Leyland…….21:14

552…..Benjamin Lieu…….40:24

553…..Adam Lin…….20:17

554…..Jeremy Lincoln…….22:25

555…..Maggie Lofkrantz…….34:40

556…..David Long…….33:30

557…..Trisha Long…….38:08

558…..Wade Long…….25:11

559…..Ken Lorbetskie…….16:36

560…..Hillary Low…….32:55

561…..Michael Low…….32:55

562…..Vivian Luk…….37:34

564…..Blake Maddicks…….25:07

565…..Dwayne Maddicks…….51:05

566…..Judy Marsh…….29:41

567…..Adam Martin…….22:29

568…..David Scott Martin…….32:48

569…..Hazel Mathieson…….36:54

570…..Soren Mathieson…….38:15

571…..Gary Maxwell…….28:02

572…..Julie McCarthy…….26:09

573…..Patrick McCarthy Powers…….23:14

574…..Kayla Mccrank…….32:09

575…..Glen McDonald…….34:01

576…..Lynn McFarlane…….40:41

577…..Elizabeth McHugh…….51:42

578…..Abigail McKenzie…….42:47

579…..Allison McKenzie…….27:49

580…..Finley McKenzie…….49:37

588…..Eileen Mortimer…….45:56

589…..Henri Mota…….43:38

590…..Luka Munjin…….21:59

591…..Kemp Murphy…….38:19

592…..Danica Murray…….26:38.

593…..Jill Murray…….22:27

594…..Joanne Murray…….24:06

596…..Tzur Noyhouzer…….29:24

598…..Rick O'Shaughnessy…….51:44

599…..Tyler Palleck…….32:58

600…..Dayanandini Pathmanathan…….29:42

601…..Aila Payroveolia…….31:11

602…..Warren Perry…….35:15

603…..Gilsan Pessoa Santos…….34:42

605…..Jackie Pothier…….32:07

606…..Tim Powers…….25:34

608…..Zeena Rashid…….19:09

609…..Christophe Rene…….26:52

610…..Will Richardson…….19:44

612…..Pat Ringland…….34:18

613…..Langley Rock…….49:09

614…..Steffanye Rock…….48:53

615…..Zoe Rock…….38:33

616…..Ethan Rodgers…….50:04

617…..Leslie Rodgers…….50:09

618…..Susan Rossy…….38:44

619…..Lynn Rowsell…….51:45

620…..Dan Roy…….20:48

623…..Alexanne Saumure-Régimbald…….33:48

624…..Christine Scharf…….40:04

625…..Roxanna Schonberg…….35:19

626…..Ambreen Shahabuddin…….36:04

627…..Monique Shear…….31:52

628…..Amanda Sheaves…….34:59

629…..Kaiden Sheaves…….34:59

630…..Owen Shi…….27:59

631…..Laurie Shusterman…….35:26

632…..Keteer Singh…….24:35

633…..Dorotka Skirlo…….25:04

634…..Ben Smith…….21:52

635…..Geoffrey Smith…….35:55

636…..Noah Smith…….17:26

637…..Sabrina Smith…….25:12

638…..Jay Sneddon…….17:31

639…..Ron Stadnyk…….33:59

640…..Sheri Steeves…….57:22

641…..Xavier Supper…….33:48

642…..Shannon Sweeney…….28:42

643…..Coleman Tataryn…….32:02

644…..Shen Tay…….22:19.0

645…..Rekha Thakur…….39:53.0

646…..Jared Thomas…….37:36.0

650…..Cole Tilbury…….25:02.0

651…..Lauren Tilbury…….33:08.0

652…..Raelyn Tilbury…….42:26.0

653…..Troy Tilbury…….33:09.0

654…..Aditya Tiwari…….41:10.0

655…..Arjun Tiwari…….42:36.0

656…..Darene Toal-Sullivan…….29:53.0

657…..Kennedy Turcotte…….33:32.0

658…..Louise Turcotte…….57:20.0

660…..Elysia Van Zeyl…….28:44.0

661…..Elina Vepsa…….36:23.0

662…..Sonia Waharte…….28:10.0

663…..Jim Walsh…….43:09.0

664…..Keith Warne…….23:59.0

665…..Sonja Webb…….25:28.0

666…..Mike Wheeler…….25:04.0

667…..Janet White…….30:38.0

668…..Alexander Williams…….26:19.0

669…..Lindsey Williams…….37:12.0

671…..Doug Wright…….24:22.0

673…..Rachel Wright…….30:20.0

674…..Kaylen Young…….30:32.0

675…..Mariam Abu Blanco…….41:19.0

676…..Mariam Al-Bayati…….1:00:52.0

677…..andrew albert…….25:43.0

678…..Leah Albert…….30:34.0

679…..Diego Alcubierre…….17:46.0

680…..Kristofer Anderson…….24:57.0

681…..Carla Benish…….32:40.0

682…..Catherine Benish…….32:01.0

683…..Charlotte Benish…….32:41.0

685…..Amy Blais…….33:41.0

686…..Eric Brown…….19:28.0

687…..Claire Cameron…….33:08.0

688…..Mary Cameron…….33:14.0

689…..Jasmine Carrière…….46:08.0

690…..Luc Carrière…….46:08.0

691…..Zakary Carrière…….45:56.0

692…..Clark Carvish…….24:53.0

693…..Stuart Chambers…….52:52.0

694…..Grace Charness…….29:07.0

695…..Andrea Clark…….33:08.0

696…..Leah Clark…….33:12.0

697…..Randy Cocek…….18:59.0

698…..Jennifer Conley…….29:53.0

699…..Randy Cumming…….35:55.0

701…..Mike Day…….45:30.0

702…..Natalie Day…….32:00.0

703…..Yumey Diaz…….24:49.0

704…..Thomas Dodd…….20:08.0

705…..Benjamin Drew…….25:00.0

706…..Stephen Drew…….21:01.0

707…..Catherine Dufour…….27:55.0

708…..Daniel Eddy…….31:26.0

709…..Adam Eikenberry…….33:58.0

710…..Michael Elten…….20:01.0

711…..Malcolm Embree…….34:08.0

712…..Justin Fraser…….26:43.0

713…..Sandra Freedman…….30:28.0

717…..Lingling Gu…….31:44.0

718…..Emily Hamilton…….1:20:25.0

719…..Yiming Han…….27:28.0

720…..Jen Hoffman-Keith…….33:40.0

722…..Mariela Hull…….45:39.0

724…..Alexa Jakubaitis…….31:26.0

725…..Carole Joly…….1:00:56.0

726…..Lily Jones…….21:23.0

727…..Ben Kane…….19:11.0

728…..Delaney Keindal…….27:00.0

729…..Dylan Keith…….33:40.0

730…..Christine Kelly…….33:27.0

732…..Dylan Labine…….22:20.0

733…..Dan Lacasse…….27:13.0

734…..Karen Lauer…….39:35.0

735…..Christel Le Petit…….31:51.0

736…..Soohyun Lee…….34:18.0

737…..Dominique Lemelin…….31:03.0

738…..Susan Leslie…….40:35.0

739…..Benjamin Lieu…….28:22.0

740…..Jay Litkey…….35:27.0

741…..Michael Litkey…….35:28.0

742…..Cameron MacLaine…….28:32.0

743…..Zachary Marino…….19:08.0

744…..Alexander Maxwell…….15:30.0

745…..Kathryn McGrail…….44:49.0

746…..Caleb McGrail-Deslauriers…….44:45.0

747…..Laura McLellan…….25:05.0

748…..melissa mech…….43:04.0

749…..Samuel Meisenheimer…….18:35.0

750…..Amanda Menard…….34:46.0

751…..Jeffrey Menard…….24:48.0

752…..Nadia Miller…….29:17.0

753…..Paul Miller…….22:38.0

754…..Dineo Molepo Stearns…….36:17.0

755…..Eleyana Molepo Stearns…….34:37.0

756…..Ben Mooy…….36:53.0

757…..Audrey Morris…….22:29.0

758…..Rose Muggeridge…….26:58.0

759…..Hannah Nelles…….29:42.0

762…..Paula Noyes…….38:32.0

763…..Michael O’Neill…….29:23.0

764…..Brianna O’Regan…….28:12.0

765…..Isaac Olynych…….35:07.0

766…..Lee Ann O'Regan…….28:12.0

768…..Kristin Paterson…….25:00.0

771…..Tim Phinney…….43:15.0

772…..Rebecca Pieterson…….17:34.0

773…..Zachary Pilon-Robinson…….17:18.0

774…..Daniela Pizarro…….39:02.0

775…..Andreea Rada…….27:25.0

776…..Mila Rowley…….23:50.0

777…..Raphael Rowley…….21:41.0

778…..Steve Rozic…….25:59.0

779…..Alan Rushforth…….45:36.0

780…..Sara Rushforth…….45:36.0

782…..Anneke Saacks…….36:23.0

783…..Keila Santos Dias…….43:12.0

784…..Elaine Saunders…….24:09.0

785…..Rebecca Schmekel…….30:17.0

786…..Stephanie Schott…….31:01.0

787…..Julianne Sloan…….30:26.0

788…..Jenna Sudds…….32:18.0

789…..Erik Syversen…….34:21.0

790…..Joan Syversen…….32:45.0

791…..Mary Syversen…….34:56.0

792…..Camilla Taft…….28:36.0

793…..Jaiden Taft…….22:15.0

794…..Naseem Tarawnah…….30:45.0

795…..Matthew Timms…….21:04.0

796…..Susan Wall…….40:40.0

799…..Jacob Weikle…….25:40.0

800…..Kate Wiklo…….28:21.0

801…..Lawrence Williams…….26:37.0

802…..Jodi Wilson…….31:26.0

803…..Benjamin Wood…….40:08.0

804…..Jieying Yang…….38:38.0

805…..D. Sisay Yirga…….26:32.0

806…..Addison Yurack…….23:51.0

807…..Harlow Yurack…….25:30.0

808…..Jamie Charlebois…….18:55.0

809…..Ava Baker…….29:43.0

810…..Grace Baker…….29:33.0

811…..Chelsey Garde…….34:33.0

812…..Jordan Stroud…….31:32.0

813…..Julia Verberk…….27:00.0

814…..Owen Day…….18:49.0

815…..Zachary Sikka…….16:14.0

816…..Qiuzi Ouyang…….44:28.0

817…..Hamid Behnia…….19:33.0

819…..Jon Anderson…….22:48.0

820…..Heather MacKeen…….35:28.0

821…..Amarjit Gill…….40:10.0

822…..Harjit Gill…….52:01.0

823…..Jennifer Savidge…….32:48.0

824…..Fritzlor Auguste…….18:45.0

825…..Michelle Baird…….27:46.0

826…..Rhona Gray…….30:19.0

827…..Alec Gaillard…….38:14.0

828…..Kelly Crowe…….38:29.0

829…..Hung Nguyen…….35:07.0

830…..William Hubrecht…….24:31.0

831…..Aaron Merilainen…….17:02.0

832…..Nayan Polushin…….25:31.0

833…..Saurav Polushin…….30:44.0

834…..Leela Polushin…….35:56.0

835…..Archita Ghosh…….55:47.0

836…..William Polushin…….26:07.0

837…..Boris Couteaux…….27:24.0

838…..Keely Barnes…….34:26.0

839…..Adrian Mota…….43:35.0

840…..Saoirse Kealey…….19:03.0

841…..Logan Kerr…….23:45.0

842…..Lia McKinnie…….20:39.0

845…..Dan Durant…….25:08.0

1352….Cassandra Boville…….32:19.0

1353….Kevin Boyce…….20:49.0

1354….Mhairi Boyce…….30:15.0

1356….Kyla Bruff…….35:21.0

1358….Lydia Butler…….24:12.0

1359….Emily Carpenter…….26:54.0

1360….Neelam Charania…….32:53.0

1361….May Chow…….55:22.0

1362….Laura Clarke…….19:33.0

1363….Jason Dai…….37:20.0

1364….Mike Day…….45:29.0

1367….Kyra Dobson Takoff…….32:42.0

1368….Zoë Dobson Takoff…….27:43.0

1369….Carole Dolan…….40:17.0

1370….Shannon Filatov…….42:36.0

1371….Ava Ford…….28:26.0

1372….Christyn Ford…….27:05.0

1373….Lianna Ford…….28:27.0

1374….sarah ford…….31:32.0

1375….Colleen Francis…….28:26.0

1376….Heather Fraser…….48:36.0

1377….Jordan Fraser…….29:52.0

1378….Peter Fraser…….48:34.0

1379….Mark Gall…….32:01.0

1380….Charlotte Hayman…….45:18.0

1381….Kathy Heney…….55:01.0

1382….Emily Hladkowicz…….1:00:23.0

1383….Ethan Hutton…….28:14.0

1384….Joanne Hutton…….28:24.0

1385….Wyatt Hutton…….27:49.0

1386….Dave Johns…….34:10.0

1387….Grace Johns…….34:10.0

1388….Isabel Johns…….34:09.0

1389….Isabella Jordan…….24:43.0

1391….Kurt Kenny…….21:17.0

1392….Petr Kocourek…….35:22.0

1393….Mikayla Kurbel…….26:26.0

1394….Andrew Ledger…….33:08.0

1396….Dielle MacArthur…….29:52.0

1397….Jessica Macleod…….29:00.0

1398….Patrick McKenna…….32:36.0

1399….Nathan Murphy…….38:20.0

1400….Tomer Noyhouzer…….29:24.0

1403….Luca Pagliarello…….25:56.0

1404….Deborah Parent…….24:44.0

1405….Emily Pawsey…….34:53.0

1406….Jason Pawsey…….34:53.0

1408….Alana Prudhomme…….26:33.0

1409….ROBERT REAL…….25:13.0

1410….Dan Rück…….55:58.0

1411….Veronique Saint-Omer…….22:54.0

1415….Jen Smith…….27:35.0

1416….Shawn Smith…….19:36.0

1417….JohnnieWalker Stevens…….52:28.0

1418….Michelle Stewart…….28:33.0

1419….Karen Tataryn…….38:53.0

1420….Nicolas Thouin…….18:42.0

1422….Christina Towers…….30:05.0

1423….Mary Towers…….30:04.0

1425….Michelle Vercler…….23:14.0

1426….Lucie Villeneuve…….26:59.0

1427….Laura Walker…….26:47.0

1428….Heather Wright…….36:18.0

1429….Benson Yee…….37:04.0

1430….Derick Yung…….27:40.0

1431….Judith Apps…….35:17.0

1432….Sandy Archibald…….34:09.0

1433….Kelsey Bradley…….26:57.0

1434….James Bruce…….19:02.0

1435….Nyara Milena Campanha Reis…….35:43.0

1436….Colin Campbell…….29:04.0

1437….Julien Caswell…….33:29.0

1438….Alexander Chambers…….25:44.0

1439….Lynn Chambers…….29:04.0

1440….Catherine Charbonneau…….25:41.0

1441….Kieran Day…….17:43.0

1443….Michael Eisen…….56:45.0

1444….Nadine Frost-Corinaldi…….18:34.0

1446….Joanne Grozelle…….26:44.0

1447….Mike Grozelle…….21:32.0

1448….Sam Grozelle…….21:32.0

1449….Ted Grozelle…….24:02.0

1450….Haley Hammond…….21:53.0

1451….Kathryn Hull…….32:35.0

1455….Suzanne Lafrance…….40:19.0

1456….Nadine Lawrence…….30:39.0

1457….Bryson Lynch…….29:39.0

1458….Gilles Malboeuf…….26:57.0

1460….Greg McLaren…….29:26.0

1461….Jessica McLaren…….29:26.0

1462….Jodi Moncrieff…….32:17.0

1463….Alexandria Orr…….33:30.0

1464….Jonathan Quapp…….22:55.0

1465….Angela Quinlan…….40:43.0

1466….Ann Speak…….35:28.0

1468….Allison Sutherland…….56:35.0

1469….Maria-Elisa Tabunar…….44:27.0

1471….Kit Ward-Crixell…….56:27.0

1472….Liam Watson…….17:40.0

1473….Hailey Wheeler…….32:00.0

1474….Michelle Wheeler…….32:00.0

1475….Anna Ziegler…….27:04.0

1476….Graydon Snider…….16:30.0

1477….Owen McAllister…….24:54.0

1478….Clara McAllister…….28:51.0

1479….Clare Kyte…….45:23.0

1480….Paul Riek…….19:20.0

1481….Peter Carpenter…….24:15.0

1482….Sally Carpenter…….31:19.0

1485….Heather Smith…….30:21.0

1742….Michael Polanyi…….23:42.0

 

Sportstats:

10k www.sportstats.ca/display-results.xhtml?raceid=118583

 

5k www.sportstats.ca/display-results.xhtml?raceid=118584

 

1k www.sportstats.ca/display-results.xhtml?raceid=118585

 

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Canada Day Road Race Photos:

 

2022 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72177720300283659

 

2019 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157709438194186

 

2018 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157698207935914

 

2017 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157685730422096

 

2016 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157670394099396

 

2015 - sorry, no pics!

 

2014 - www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157645505027893

 

2008-13 www.flickr.com/photos/ianhun/albums/72157624941096281

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Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Wickhambreaux

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

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Saturday 24th October 2020

The last day of British Summer Time (BST). Clocks go back at 02:00 Sunday.

 

This will be a long hard winter, with little light. I hope I am wrong, but I suspect I am right. By the time BST returns at the end of March Britain will be a very different place, but it will be, at least, Spring.

 

The last day of summer time was destined to bring us storms, strong winds and driving rain, but not until later in the afternoon and overnight, which meant we could go out and visit places.

 

We are not great shoppers, so no need to go to Ashford, Westwood Cross or even Canterbury, but the odd attractive village perhaps, and maybe an attractive church or two? And a walk in the country, because, if nothing else, COVID has not closed them down.

 

Yet.

 

And one of the best and closest reserves is Stodmarsh, on the southern banks of the Great Stour downstream fro Canterbury. But unlike places like Westbere on the other side of the river, Stodmarsh is on a road much less travelled, and so out of the way, you do not come here by accident.

 

Which is a shame as it is a rather nice place, and has a fine looking pub, as I was to see. Although I had been here twice before, not really walked round the village, other than the small church.

 

To get to Stodmarsh is easy enough, just go to Preston, take the road to Grove Ferry and left at the cross roads, and across the fields and into the shallow valley and you arrive. And so should have been simple, and was until we drove past the butcher and came to turn down the Grove Ferry road only to find road closed signs.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh No problem, we could get past from the other side, but this did mean going down the road through Stourmarsh and Pluck's Gutter to Monkton, then back towards Canterbury through Sarre and down the Gover Ferry road.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh Only, as the main road left Sarre, I saw a freight train, rare in Kent these days, and it was clearly a balast train for track replacement, meaning, correctly as it turned out, that the road closure would be at the level crossing at Grove Ferry, and so we would have to go round to Preston. Again.

 

Which is how it turned out.

 

An hour late we pulled into the reserve car park, found that due to COVID those were closed. But, after putting on our walking boots we set off through the woods and out onto the marsh beyond, through the reedbeds, eyes peeled for any wildlife we might see. I was hoping to see Bearded Tits, aka Bearded Reedlings, as I had never seen them before, and at this time of year they collect gravel from paths to fill their gizzards to grind up older plant material. But saw none of those either.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh But I did see a Kingfisher. I say "saw", I mean as we left the wood, to the right I saw a flash of blue as one took off, and did not return, though I did hear it calling as we shuffled along the muddy track, trying not to fall over.

 

A walk around Stodmarsh There were a few flowers hanging on, a hogweed and a couple of dandelion hawkbits and a thistle too. We disturned an upset Grey Heron which leapt into the air then used its huge wings to fly away to a quieter part of the reserve.

 

Near to the river it got too muddy to go on, so we turned back for the car park, and into the teeth of the freshening breeze which was turn to severe gales by the end of the day. Over Canterbury sheets of rain could be seen, so time for home.

 

Back at the car, I drove to the centre of Stodmarsh and tried the church door. To no one's surprise, it was locked. It is a small church, but I wanted to rephotograph the unique support for the bellcote, but that will have to wait until next year.

 

We drove back to the main road then through Wingham where I wanted to visit Wickhambreaux to photograph the town and church. I went to the church first and saw the porch door open, a gentleman was clearing the churchyard of dead plants, I asked if the church was open. It was unlocked, but he would prefer it if I did not go in, I could see the inner door ajar. I wanted to argue, but left it. I have been there before, so not essential, but it would have been nice to do one church.

 

Not today.

 

As I walked back to the car the rain came, drizzle at first, driven to feel like hail by the wind. I put my cameras in the boot and climb in.

 

Let's go home.

 

So we do.

 

Only I got the idea to stop off on the Sandwich bypass for some dirty food from the greasy spoon. He was open and serving, but after parking and going to the hatch he told us he was maxed out with orders and could not serve us. A builder stood nearby and must have come with a large order for his friends.

 

So we got back in the car and drove home, and once inside I put the kettle on and prepare pork pie, coleslaw and pickled onions.

 

Quick and easy.

 

Outside the rain fell and the wind built. I was going nowhere else.

 

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The interior of this very pretty church is dominated by nineteenth-century work. The whole of the chancel and baptistry is lined with dark brown encaustic tiles, hiding a straightforward fourteenth-century church. The east window is an early example of American Art Nouveau in England, and dominates the entire building. It was designed by Baron Arild Rosenkrantz in 1896. Above the window are stencilled paintings of angels ascending, which can also be seen in the nave, whilst the roof there has a charming star-spangled sky. At the south-west corner is a vestry - screened off by an eighteenth-century screen which may have formed part of the refitting of the chancel paid for by Mary Young. Her monument in the chancel records that 'infirm from her youth she protracted life to the 68th year of her age'. She left £100 for wainscotting and ornamenting the chancel. The interior viewed from the east gives an unusual appearance as the aisles flank the tower (see also Sandhurst).

 

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WICKHAM BREAUS

LIES adjoining to Littleborne north-eastward, being usally called Wickham Brook. It is likewise called Wickham by Wingham, to distinguish it from the two other parishes of the same name in this county. In Domesday it is written Wicheham, a name derived from its situation near the banks of the river, which runs close to it. There is only one borough in it, viz. the borough of Wickham, which comprehends the whole parish.

 

Wickham is a low, flat, and unpleasant situation, and lying so near the marshes cannot but be unhealthy, the land throughout it is in general good and sertile, especially near the village, where the fields are very large and level ground. The village, in number about twenty houses, stands at the south-east boundary of the parish, built round a green, over which the road leads to Ickham, having the church and court-lodge on one side, and the parsonage, a handsome brick house, on the other. At the further end of the green, the Lesser Stour crosses the road, and turns a corn-mill belonging to the manor, beyond it is only one house, called the Stone-house, being built of squared stones and slints in chequers, and by the arched windows and door-ways seems of some antiquity. The parish stretches a good distance northward, as far as Groveferry, the house of which is within it, and the greater Stour river, over a level of about 500 acres of marsh land, which extend from the river into a sinus, with a ridge of upland on each side, to within a quarter of a mile of the village. North eastward from which is the Saperton, formerly the property of the Beakes's, who resided here as early as king Henry the VIIIth.'s reign; it was sold by them to the Furneses, whence it came by marriage, with Copthall, in this parish, to the St. John's, viscounts Bolingbroke, who have lately sold it, but one of the family of Beake, many of whom lie buried in this church, now occupies it. A little beyond this is Newnham, once accounted a manor, formerly belonging to the Ropers, lords Teynham, afterwards to the Bartholomews, then to Joseph Brooke, esq. of Rochester, and now to his devisee the Rev. John Kenward Shaw Brooke, of Town-Malling.—Hence among the marshes is the hamlet of Grove, through which the road leads across them to the right over the lesser Stour, to Wingham, Ash, and the eastern parts of Kent, and to the left by Grove-ferry over the Greater Stour, to the northern part of the country and the Isle of Thanet. There is no other wood in the parish excepting Trendley park. There is no fair.

 

At the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, this place was part of those possessions with which that king had enriched his half-brother Odo, the great bishop of Baieux. Accordingly it is thus entered in that record, under the general title of his lands:

 

In Donamesford hundred, the bishop himself holds in demesne Wicheham. It was taxed at four sulings. The arable land is eleven carucates. In demesne there are two carucates, and thirty-six villeins, with thirty-two cottagers having nine carucates. There is a church, and one priest who gives forty shillings per annum. There is one park, and two mills of fifty shillings, and two saltpits of thirtytwo pence, and three fisheries of four shillings, and thirtytwo acres of meadow. Pasture for three hundred sheep and for thirty-one beasts. Wood for the pannage of eighty bogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth twenty-five pounds, when he received it twenty pounds, now thirty pounds. There belong to this manor in Canterbury three plats of land paying six shillings and eight pence. Alured Biga held it of king Edward. Moreover there belongs to this manor half a suling of free land, which Sired held of Alured Biga, and Goisfrid, son of Badland, now holds it of the bishop of Baieux, and it is and was worth separately sixty shillings.

 

Four years afterwards the bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were consiscated to the crown, of which this manor appears afterwards to have been held by the Cliffords. Walter, son of Walter de Clifford, possessed it in the reign of king John, and with Agnes de Cundy, his wife, was a good benefactor to St. Augustine's abbey, and that of St. Radigund. (fn. 1) By the marriage of Margaret, daughter and heir of Walter Clifford, with John de Brewse, it passed into that name, and William de Brewse, or de Braiosa, as they were written in Latin, was possessed of it in the 42d year of king Henry III. His descendant William de Brewse, lord of the honour of Brembre, in Sussex, and of Gower, in Wales, as he stiled himself, whose ancestor came into England with the Conqueror, who gave him the castle of Brember, and whose descendant afterwards, by the marriage with Bertha, daughter and one of the coheirs of Milo, earl of Hereford, became possessed of the castles of Brecknock and Gower likewife, and bore for his arms, Azure, a lion rampant, between twelve cross-croslets, or; though I find by the pedigrees of this family, that his ancestors bore Azure, three bars vaire, argent, and gules. He was several times summoned to parliament in king Edward I.'s reign, as was his son of the same name, both in that and Edward II.'s reign, and died possessed of this manor in the 19th year of the latter. Very soon after which it appears, with the church appendant to it, to have come into the possession of Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent, half brother to king Edward II. (fn. 2) After which it descended to his brother John Plantagenet, likewife earl of Kent, it being then held of the king in sergeantry. He died anno 26 Edward III. upon which Joane his sister, commonly called the Fair Maid of Kent, wife of Sir Thomas Holand, became his heir, who in her right not only possessed this manor, but became earl of Kent likewise. She afterwards married Edward the black prince, and died in the 9th year of king Richard II. being succeeded in this manor then held in capite, by Thomas Holand, earl of Kent, her son by her first husband, whose two sons, Thomas and Edward, both earls of Kent, and the former created Duke of Surry, in turn succeeded to it, and the latter dying anno 9 Henry IV. his five sisters became his coheirs, and on a partition made between them, Edmund, earl of March, son of Eleanor, late countess of March, the eldest of them became entitled to this manor in his mother's right, being the last earl of March of this family, for he died s. p. in the 3d year of king Henry VI. being then possessed of it. The year after which, Joane, wife of Sir John Gray, appears by the escheat rolls to have been entitled to it; not long after which it became the property of the family of Tibetot, or Tiptoft, as they were usually called, in whom it continued down to John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, who was attainted and beheaded in 1471, anno 10 Edward IV. king Henry being then restored to the crown. He lest an infant son Edward, who, though he was afterwards restored in blood by king Edward IV. yet I do not find that he was ever reinstated in the possession of this manor, which remained in the crown till the reign of king Henry VIII. who granted it, with the advowson of the church, to Sir Matthew Browne, of Beechworth-castle, who in the 22d year of it, passed it away to Lucy, widow of his uncle Sir Anthony Browne, standard-bearer of England, whose grandson Anthony was, anno I and 2 of Philip and Mary, created viscount Montague, and died possessed of this manor anno 34 Elizabeth, and by his will devised it to his eldest son by his second wife, Sir George Browne, who was of Wickham Breaus, and his grandson Sir George Browne, K. B. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Winifrid, married to Basil Brooks, esq. of Salop, and Eleanor, to Henry Farmer, esq. of Oxfordshire, they joined in the sale of it, at the latter end of Charles II.'s reign, to Sir H. Palmer, bart. of Wingham, who died possessed of it in 1706, s. p. and by his will devised it to his nephew Sir Thomas Palmer, bart. who died in 1723, and by his will gave it to his natural son Herbert Palmer, esq. who married Bethia, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, who died in 1760, s. p., having devised this manor, with the advowson of the church appendant, to his widow. She afterwards married John Cosnan, esq. who in her right became possessed of it, and died in 1778, s. p. leaving her furviving, upon which she again became entitled to the possession of it, and continued owner of it till her death in 1797, on which it came to her nephew Sir Narborough D'Aeth, bart. of Knowlton, the present owner of it. A court leet and court baron is held for this manor.

 

Trendley park, now accounted a manor of itself, is situated at the north-west boundary of this parish, being entirely separated from the rest of it by that of Littleborne intervening. It was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and is noticed in the survey of Domesday, in the description of the manor of Wickham above recited, in which it is mentioned as being then a park; and it should seem that at least part of it was then accounted as appurtenant to that manor; though in the description of the manor of Littleborne, in the same survey, which then belonged to the abbey of St. Augustine, it appears that the bishop had lands belonging to that manor too lying within his park here. Of this manor the bishop of Baieux has in his park as much land as is worth sixty shillings, says the record. In part of the recompence for which, the bishop seems to have given the abbot the manor of Garwinton, in Littleborne, and other land within the manor of Leeds, as may be seen by the entries of both these manors in the same record. Soon after which there was another exchange of land made between the bishop and archbishop Lanfranc, for some which lay within his park of Wikeham. What is remarkable in this instrument is, that it is given in two languages, in Saxon and Latin, but neither is a translation of the other, for both are originals, as was a frequent custom of that time. Appendant to it is the bishop's seal in wax, representing him on one side on horseback, with his sword and spurs, as an earl, and on the other habited as a bishop, with his pastoral staff; being perhaps the only seal of Odo at this time extant. (fn. 3) By all which it appears, that this park is much more antient than that of Woodstock, which has been accounted the first inclosed park in England. How long it continued an inclosed park, I have no where found; but in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign it was not so, as appears by the escheat-rolls of the 3d year of it, after the death of Edmund, earl of March, at which time there were two hundred acres of wood in it. He was lord of the manor of Wickham, and Trendley park was chiefly at that time certainly appurtenant to it, and continued so whilst in the possession of the same owners, which it did most probably till the attainder of John Tiptost, earl of Worcester, in the 10th year of king Edward IV. when they both came into the hands of the crown, and though king Henry VIII. afterwards granted the manor of Wickham to Sir Matthew Browne, yet I do not find that Trendley park was granted with it. From which time it has had separate owners. For some time it has been the property of the family of Denne, who continue at this time the owners of it. It lies in an unpleasant, lonely part of the parish, facing Westbere, and consists of three hundred acres of woodland, and a house called the Park-house. There is a high road through the middle of it from Stodmarsh to Canterbury market, which in king Edward II.'s reign, was attempted to be shut up, but the sheriff, with the posse comitatus, was ordered to open it again, as being an antient and allowed high road.

 

Charities.

Andrew Holness, of Seton, in Ickham, by will in 1554, gave to the poor 2s. in money and bread, to be distributed yearly; the churchwardens to take so much yearly out of his lands in Ickham and Wickham, except his house and garden at Seton, in case his executors did not give the same yearly.

 

Henry Sloyden, of Wickham Breaus, by will in 1568, gave for the use of the poor and Littleborne, in equal portions, a piece of land containing six acres and a half in the latter parish, called Church-close, which is distributed twice a year by the respective minister and churchwardens, and is of the annual produce of 4l.

 

John Smith, rector of this parish, by deed in 1656, gave a school-room, and a house and garden for a schoolmaster, in this parish, for teaching the children of it. The master to be chosen from one of his relations in preference, if any such could be found, is vested in the rector and churchwardens of this parish.

 

Sir Henry Palmer, of Bekesborne, by his will in 1611, gave the sum of 10s. to each of the several parishes of Wickham, Stodmarsh, Littleborne, and five others therein mentioned, to be paid into the hands of the minister and churchwardens yearly, out of his manor and lands of Well-court, at Michaelmas, towards the relief of the poor of each of them.

 

Thomas Belke, D. D. rector of this parish, by will in 1712, gave 501. for the putting out of five poor children of this parish apprentices.

 

There are about thirty poor constantly relieved, and casually seventy.

 

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

 

¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Andrew, consists of three isles and one chancel, having at the west end a square tower, in which hang six bells. The church is not large, but is handsome and neat. In the middle isle are several memorials for the Beakes, of Saperton. In the south isle for the Larkins, who lived at Grove, in this parish. In the east window are remains of good painted glass, viz. the arms of Edward the black price and of Mortimer, quartered with Burgh, and a representation of Herod's daughter beheading John the Baptist. In the chancel, on the pavement, is the figure of a priest in brass, and inscription, for Henry Welde, rector, obt. 1420. A gravestone, and monument for Alexander Young, B D. rector of this parish, who rebuilt this parsonage-house, and repaired that of Eastchurch, of which he was vicar likewife, at the expence of 2000l. obt. March 21, 1755. A memorial for John Smith, rector, obt. Oct. 28, 1658. In the church-yard are many headstones, and a tombstone for the family of Beake. In the windows of this church there were formerly many different shields of arms, long since demolished.

 

This church was always an appendage to the manor, and continues so at this time, Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. owner of the manor of Wickham, being the present patron of it.

 

There was antiently both a rectory and vicarage in this church, which continued till the year 1322, when on a vacancy of the latter, Richard de Newcastle, the rector, petitioned archbishop Walter Reynolds, that they might be consolidated, which was granted, and they have continued in that state to the present time. (fn. 4)

 

This rectory is valued in the king's books at 29l. 12s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 2l. 19s. 3d. In 1588 it was valued at 250l. communicants one hundred and sixty-three. In 1640 the same. There are eighteen acres of glebe-land.

 

The marsh-lands in this parish, within Wickham and Preston valleys, pay a modus of two-pence an acre, and those within Newnham 1½d. only, in lieu of all tithes.

 

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp158-166

In November 1963, President John F Kennedy arrived in Dallas to meet with some political figures in the area. It was mid term of his Presidency and Kennedy was about to start campaigning again so he met with Texas Governor John Connally.

 

On Nove 22, 1963, Kennedy, First Lady Jaquille, Gover Connally and his wife, got into the Presidential Limousine and participated in a long parade through the downtown streets of Dallas on their way to a lunchon in honor of Kennedy. As the parade crossed down Elm Street and into Dealy Plaza, 2 shots rang out hiting Kennedy in the head and Connally in the back. Though not pronounced dead until he got to the hospital, Kennedy died instantly while Connally suffered a collapsed lung but survived. Both wifes were not injured.

 

This 1961 Lincoln Continental was that car Kennedy was ridding in when he was assassinated. It has gone through changes since that fateful night. They put a har, non removable, top on the car and made the car bulletproof. They also reupholstered the inside of the car and this car was reused by different Presidents. This car would be used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter before being retired in 1977.

 

The car now sits as part of a Presidential car collection inside the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mi.

Newspaper 9-6-1967

 

SCC golfing instructor Dick Sumpter, kneeling, watches assistant instructor Howard Wilson take a few swings with the driver. Other members of the class include, front from left, Dale Antle, Ron Barnett, James Collett, Fred Carnes, John Gover and John Price, back , from left, Michael Masters, Monte Gover, George Estes, James Eastham and Jerry Alexnader.

 

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James Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper

7-29-1964

 

1964 Somerset All Star Babe Ruth Baseball Team. Kneeling, from left, are David Hamm, Monte Gover, Ralph Stogsdill and Charlie Pierce; second row, Manager Sid Gavalin, Jimmy McAlpin, Don Tohill, Mike Clouse, Charlie Rogers, Jim Eastham, Jackie Padgett and Assistant Manager Bill Vanhook; third row, John Perkins, Bill Caylor, Phillip Hampton, Danny Mullins, Gary McClendon and Coach Lee Pierce.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Somerset Class Reunion

Class of 1961

7-4-1971

 

Front Row, Left tor Right, George K. Shadoan, Walter McGuire, Lucian Garrett, Ronald Meece, Kenneth Wheeldon, Richard Cundiff, Tommy Joe Ferrell, Clyde Ellnor, Eddie Boss, Tommy Reesor, Tommy Coffey, Farris Dills, Ronnie Bennett and Danny Coomer; Second Row, Ed Sears, John C. Evans, Richard Avera, Jerry Hamm, David Jones, Pat Setser Hurst, Mrs. Ruth Garner Woodall, Mrs. Nancy Hargis Jasper, Mrs. Linda Wilson Reesor, Mrs. Becky Harris Deaton, Mrs. Sylvia Phelps Eller, Mrs. Jenny Jones Gilmore, Mrs. Lois Van Hook Gover, Mrs. Jeanie Howson Sexton, Mrs. Jolene Muse Denham, Mrs. Brenda Ikerd Massey and Mrs. Anne Meece Farris; third row, Jewell Haynes Wheeler, Mrs. Anna Early Parnell, Mrs. Pat Shelton Meece, Mrs. Judy Early Loveless, Johnny Hines, Judy Vaughn, Mrs. Bonnie Biers Jones, Mrs. Sandy Dye Dills, Mrs. Ellen Alcorn Coomer, Mrs. Brenda Tatum Berry and Mrs. Betty Curry Feux.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photo Collection

 

John Gover Family

C. Tom Smith Photography Collection

Duke of Bedford School, Thorney. The Old School Association annual supper and social 9 Oct 1957. Names left to right (front row, bottom right): Trevor Taylor, Doreen Borgognoni. Second row: unknown (not facing camera), Margaret Tawn, Mavis Moyses, Doreen Thompson?, Gordon Titman, Fred Goodman, John Culain, Shirley Wright. Third row: Bobby Dewing, Tony Borgognoni, David Butt, Harriet Smith, Irene Jary, Colin Ladds, unknown, Mr - Chesters. Fourth row: unknown (woman with back to camera), Harold Readshaw, George Dale, Eric Fitzjohn, Doreen Barnes, Ruth Pycroft, Tom Gover. Fifth rown: Denis Flack (with glasses), Bette Mitcham, Geoge Nut (Roly Jenkins, teacher behind him), George Whittington (caretaker). Final row (top left): Ivan Housden, unknown woman, unknown woman. If you know any names, please let us know. Photo: The Thorney Society Archive.

Caro Silvio, ti scrivo da amico e da politico, non da «amico politico», benché legato a te da un’ami­cizia personale che data dal 1974 e che non è mai venuta meno. Non sono mai entrato nella tua vita privata pur, come tu ben sai, non con­dividendo alcune manifestazioni di essa. Ri­tengo che i giudizi sulla vita privata di una per­sona che non attengano alla funzione pubblica esercitata - e in particolare la vita eufemisti­camente chiamata «sentimentale» ma più esattamente «sessuale» - debbano essere di­stinti dai giudizi politici.

 

Non mi sembra che il giudizio politico di al­lora e il giudizio storico di oggi abbiano bollato con il marchio dell’infamia John Fitzgerald e Robert Kennedy, le cui attività galanti supera­rono di gran lunga le tue, e ebbero anche aspet­ti inquietanti sui quali la giustizia americana non volle inquisire fino in fondo. E che dire del primo ministro britannico Wilson, che fece no­minare dalla Regina, che non batté un ciglio, alla carica di Pari a vita con il titolo di barones­sa una sua collaboratrice, collaboratrice per così dire, in senso piuttosto lato? E qui mi fer­mo… Ora tu ti trovi, a torto o a ragione, in un brutto impiccio: per motivi «sentimentali» e anche per motivi, diciamo così, mercantili. Vi è chi, movimenti politici e potentati economi­ci, con o senza giornali di loro proprietà, sono terrorizzati che tu possa governare il Paese per altri quattro anni; e sperano che titolari di alte cariche istituzionali, al primo, al secondo o al terzo posto nelle precedenze, riescano a farti uno sgambetto.

 

Vorrei darti qualche consiglio, anche se so che tu ritieni che pochi consigli possano darti quelli che furono attori o, come me, solo com­parse in quello che tu chiami il «teatrino» del­la politica della Prima Repubblica. È vero che una coincidenza è solo una coin­cidenza, che due coincidenze sono un indizio e che tre coincidenze possono essere una prova. Ma io non credo che tu sia vittima di un com­plotto. E poi, complotto di chi? Dei nostri servi­zi di sicurezza? Ma al loro apice, da Gianni Di Gennaro a Bruno Branciforte e Giorgio Picciril­lo, ci sono dei fedeli e capaci servitori dello Sta­to, sui quali non può gravare alcun sospetto e che sono impegnati, oltre che a svolgere le loro mansioni, ancora a capire, per colpa della leg­ge e del Governo, quali esse siano e quali siano i confini tra le loro competenze e quelle del ser­vizio di informazione e sicurezza militare dello Stato Maggiore della Difesa…

 

Complotto di un servizio estero? Di Cia o Dia americane? Certo, i mezzi e le competenze li hanno, eccome! E perché mai Barack Obama dovrebbe aver ordinato una tale campagna di «intossicazione»? Perché sei amico di Putin e della Federazione Russa? Ma immaginati. Al­la fine Putin preferirà Obama a te e viceversa. Noi siamo un grande Paese, ma non una gran­de potenza: smettiamolo di crederlo. Io penso che tu sia vittima dell’odio dei tuoi avversari ma anche delle tue imprudenze e ingenuità. L’odio dei tuoi avversari è eviden­te: e non penso al mite e sprovveduto Dario Franceschini, né al freddo, politico e onesto e corretto Massimo D’Alema, anche se si è la­sciato scappare una battuta che più che te e lui sta mettendo nei pasticci il «lotta-» o «lob­by- continuista» magistrato di Bari. Questo odio io l’ho patito sulla mia pelle. Perché a te il noto gruppo editoriale svizzero dà dello sciupa­femmine, ma a me per quasi sette anni ha da­to del golpista e del pazzo, nel senso tecnico del termine…

 

Lascia stare i complotti, e respingi anche l’odio che è un cattivo consigliere anche per chi ne è oggetto. Vendi Villa La Certosa, o meglio regalala allo Stato o alla Regione Sarda: è indi­fendibile e «penetrabilissima». Lascia anche Palazzo Grazioli, che ha ormai una fama equi­voca e trasferisciti per il lavoro e per abitarvi a Palazzo Chigi. Non chiedere scusa a nessu­no, salvo che ai tuoi figli, quelli almeno che hai in comune con Veronica. Non mi consta che gli altri due grandi sciupafemmine come Kennedy e Clinton abbiano mai chiesto scusa al loro po­polo… Fai la pace con Murdoch: tra ricchi ci si mette sempre d’accordo. Cerca un armistizio con l’Anm: porta alle lunghe la legge sulle inter­cettazioni e quella sulle modifiche del Codice di Procedura Penale e dai ai magistrati un con­sistente aumento di stipendio.

 

Vuoi, invece, fare la guerra? Allora vai in Parlamento: ma al Senato per carità! E non alla Camera, per non correre il rischio di ve­derti togliere la parola o espulso dall’aula. Tie­ni un duro discorso sfidando l’opposizione, fa presentare una mozione di approvazione delle tue dichiarazioni, poni la fiducia su di essa e, come ai gloriosi tempi della Dc con il Governo Fanfani, fatti votare contro dai tuoi, impeden­do con i voti la formazione di un altro gover­no, porta così il Paese a inevitabili nuove ele­zioni… Perché la guerra è sempre meglio per te, per l'opposizione e per il Paese, di questo rotolarsi nella melma.

 

Con affetto ed amicizia

 

Francesco Cossiga

presidente emerito della Repubblica

22 giugno 2009

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring (L-R) Glenn Gover, Kristian Truelsen & Brian Russell

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Directed by David Russell

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Newspaper 12-3-1969

Junior and Senior girls from Pulaski County High are helping with the annual Christmas Seals project. Volunteers are, from left, seated, Gwen Chitwood, Sharon Phelps, Linda Richardson and Elaine Hargis; second row, Jackie Hamilton, Brenda Steele, Suzette Stringer, LaDonna Mauldin, Brenda Jones, Charlotte Price and Bonnie Helton; third row, director John Gover, June Neely, Joyce Epperson, Charlotte Whitaker, Karen Aker, Brenda Dye, Vicki Sutton and adult volunteer Pauline Roberts.

 

James Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper 3-31-1965

 

Members of the 1964 Babe Ruth All Star Team, which won the state tournament are, seated from left, Charles Rogers, Jack Padgett, Coach Leo Pierce, Coach Bill Vanhook, Mike Clouse, Donnie Tohill, Monty Gover and Jim Eastham; standing from left, Assistant State Director Roy Thompson, John Perkins, Charles Pierce, Phillip Hampton, Bill Caylor, Danny Mullins, Jimmy McAlpin, David Hamm, Gary McClendon and League President John Tohill.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper 3-10-1971

Leadership in the local Democratic Women’s Club was decided in a recent election. Officers include, seated from left, Mrs. Murray K. Rogers, Mrs. Andrew York and Mrs. Paul Allen. Standing from left are Mrs. J.C. Gibson, Mrs. John K. Gover, Mrs. Jesse Gibson and Mrs. Raymond Waddle.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Pulaski Funeral Home

1-5-1967

 

John V. Gover, manager of Pulaski Funeral Home, points to some features of the new facility on N. US 27. Attending the open house are, from left, Mrs. John Gover, Elwood McKinney, G.P Neikirk, C.B. Hall, Homer Neikirk, M.E. Burtn and Mrs. Burton. Some 1,500 people toured the facility during the event.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper 12-8-1965

Pulaski County High School students have been helping prepare Christmas Seals for mailing for the local TB chapter. Seated are Bobbie Erp, Linda Meece, Doris Sewell, Sarah Pennington, Linda Epperson and Connie Childers. Standing are Elsie Mitchell, Edith Floyd, Earleen Girdler, Joyce Nichols and Connie Newley. In the background are John Gover, local chairman, Leonard Hislope from the state TB association and O.M. Haynes, local health department administrator.

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

John Gover Jr.

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Ferguson Class of 1946

June 1966

 

The Ferguson Class of 1946. Seated, from left, Former Superintendent C. H. Richardson, Mrs. James E. Meece, Mrs. John Chenault, Mrs. James Bates, Mrs. Elwood Preston, Mrs. Paul Hall and Miss Martha Elliott; standing, former teacher Mrs. Fenimore Gover, Robert Buck, Mrs. Robert Cowan, Mrs. Ray Yanders, William Ferrell, Mrs. James Ford, Maxwell Flynn, Mrs. William Smith, Mrs. Reno Fletcher and Frank Haynes.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring (L-R) Kristian Truelsen, Larry Alexander, Chris Jackson & Brian Russell

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

John K. Gover Sr.

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Newspaper, 1960-1963

November, 1962

 

Pulaski County High students volunteered to stuff solicitation envelopes for the Christmas Seal Campaign. Seated, from left, are Zellene Bradley, Margaret Gover, Joan Gholson, Patricia Molen, Beth Maggard and Miriam Thomas; standing, Association President O.M. Haynes, Willadean Dick, Ana Wells, Linda Daulton, State Representative Leonard Hislope, Arlene Roy, Judy Hines, Kay Phelps and Chairman John V. Gover.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring Glenn Gover

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

First Baptist Church

December 1979

Front Row, Left to Right

J. W. Barnett, ?, ?, ??, J. T. Wilson, ?, ?, ?, /

Second row, Left to Right

?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, Jess Wilson, John Gover, ?

Third Row, Left to Right

?, ?, ?, ?, Lawrence Hail, ?, Bromie Settles, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

John Gover

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring (L-R) Kristian Truelsen, Glenn Gover, Joseph Parra, Larry Alexander & Lauren Wood

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Newspaper

11-29-1967

 

15 senior girls from Pulaski County High helped with the mailing of 5,00 Easter Seal packets. Pictured, from left, are Sandy Colyer, Brenda Hall, Donna Wesley, Mollie Bradley, Janice Spaw, Wanda Phelps, Betty Jo Barnes, Lynda Sweeney, Jan Harrison, Sandy Hinkle, Connie Hargis, Kathy Meece, Kathy Sears, Beulah Dye and Nina Murphy. Chairman John V. Gover, chairman, is at the rear.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring (L-R) Larry Alexander, Joseph Parra, Brian Russell, Kristian Truelsen, Chris Jackson, Glenn Gover, Lauren Wood, Molly Leigh Healy & John Lombardi

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Directed by David Russell

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs

Newspaper

12-4-1963

 

The Pulaski County TB Association mailed 2,500 letters containing Christmas Seals to Pulaski Countians. Displaying the seals are Drive chairman John Gover and association president O.M. Haynes.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper 6-23-1971

Closing the loan agreements to form the Bronston Water District are, seated from left, John W. Fietz of the Somerset FHS office, Attorney Leslie C. Gay, John K. Gover, and J.C. Gibson. Standing, from left, are John McMichael of Vaughn and Melton Engineering, Gay Blair of FHA and Aubrey Feltner of the FHA.

 

(Gib Gosser)

Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Newspaper

11-20-1963

 

The Somerset Lions Club was host to a zone meeting of the organization. Pictured, from left, are Ernest Jones, Oris Gowen, Dock McCartt, Norman Padgett, O.L. Spivey of London, Homer Ramsey of Whitley City, C.C, Shepherd of Whitley City, John Gover, Larry Harris of East Bernstadt and Charlie Bob Bowen.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Anne Marie Gover and Suzan Shown Harjo with Hickory Edwards, John Edwards, Noah Onheda and their family at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 in Washington. (Kevin Wolf/AP Images for The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian)

Newspaper

2-5-1964

Carnegie Library Art Show

 

Members of an extension class in art from Eastern State College.

 

Front row, from left, Mrs. Kenneth Meredity, Mrs. Leslie Reagan, Mrs. Waide Hughes, Mrs. James Corder, Jr., Mrs. Robert H. Flynn, Mrs. John Rice, Mrs. B.J. Rollison, Mrs. Thomas Burleson and Miss Elaine Thompson. Back row, from left, Mrs. Howard Pitts, Jack Goldenberg, Mrs. Maxine Adams, Mrs. Richard Cooper, Charles Stargel, Mrs. John P. Hill, Jr., Mrs. Jack Goldenberg, Mrs. Gover Rexroat, Mrs. John G. Prather, Mrs. Waddell Hay, Mrs. William Coomer, Ms. Silas Dutton, Mrs. William Tanner, Mrs. Cressell Thompson, Mrs. John Long, Jr., Mrs. W.R. Nichols and the air professor from Eastern State College Kandolph Dozier.

 

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Jim Slaughter Photography Collection

Directed by David Russell

 

Starring (L-R) Kristian Truelsen & Joseph Parra

 

Costumes by Kelly Lynn Stukey

 

Props & Scenery by Jerid Fox

 

Lighting by Mike Wood

 

Assistant Lighting by Cody Basham

 

Photos by Chad Jacobs