Hernhill Parish | A place for the people and visitors of Hernhill Parish in the County of Kent

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Web Name: Hernhill Parish | A place for the people and visitors of Hernhill Parish in the County of Kent

WebSite: http://hernhill.net

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Hernhill is a beautiful unspoilt village nestling in the countryside a few miles from Faversham. It has a great pub and a Norman church facing each other across a village green punctuated with a fine Oak tree. The Parish includes the hamlets of Crockham, Dargate, The Fostal, Lamberhurst, Oakwell, Staple Street, Thread, Waterham, Wey Street and Godfrey s Grave.The local Primary school is excellent, we have fine bed and breakfast at Church Oast and Barnsfield and there are abundant farm shops all over the Parish. The village sits on the edge of the North Kent marshes and is sheltered by the ridge of the Blean.Hernhill is twinned with the French village of Vis-en-Artois.There is documentary evidence of a community in Hernhill nearly 1,200 years ago, and it is extremely likely that there were settlements in the vicinity some centuries earlier whose inhabitants worshipped Celtic Gods, when the sea covered half the parish and fisherman outnumbered farmers.A Saxon charter of AD811 refers to Swithunincy (swithin land) located vaguely as east of Graveney , most probably between Dargate and Lamberhurst. It has been suggested that this land might indeed have been the site of the first settlement from which Whitstable later developed.In those distant days and for the next eight or nine centuries this was a very neglected district, very wild, and sparsely populated. Written records are meagre, but a saxon church at Harenhylle is recorded in the 11th century Domesday Monachorum, presumably on the site or close by our present church Dawn Cotton says: September 2, 2010 at 11:07 am Last year I visited Vis-en-Artois, in France. Whilst there, I met some lovely people who asked me to make contact with someone in Hernhill, as they have lost contact with the person who administers twinning matters.Originally I thought it was the Herne Hill in London, which I live near. Also, last year, I tried to make contact, by telephone, with someone in Hernhill, but I didn t get very far.Whoever is reading this ..could they please pass it on the the relevant person, thank you. Simon says: September 2, 2010 at 7:01 pm Hi Dawn,Glad you got in touch. I have been wondering what to do about twinning matters. It has appeared as an agenda item in Dawes Community Association committee meetings in the past. I ll email you for the contact details.ThanksSimon CarrollDCA Chair ANSELIN Ghislaine says: October 27, 2010 at 8:47 pm Bonjour,Je suis conseillière à Vis en Artois, en charge du jumelage. Jusqu à ce jour je n ai pas réussi à rencontrer quelqu un alors si vous êtes intéressé pour relancer le jumelage ou si vous connaissez la personne merci de me répondre rapidementCordialementG. Anselin

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