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The Nonington War Memorials-revised 12.10.2020
There are two memorials to the Fallen of the Two World Wars in St. Mary’s churchyard, a roll of honour in the yew tree by the main entrance to the churchyard and a…
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St. Mary’s Church in Nonington: monumental inscriptions noted by the Reverend Bryan Faussett in 1758
The Reverend Bryan Faussett (1720-1776) was a wealthy Kent clergyman who pioneered archaeology in Kent and excavated and recorded scores of sites in parishes in close proximity to Nonington.These excavations were recorded…
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Nonington: settlement before the Anglo-Saxons
Aerial photographs of the old parish of Nonington taken in the last half of the 20th century clearly indicate the sites of several early settlements dating back to the Iron Age [circa 500…
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Ralph Colkyn of Esol in Nonington: the massacre of the Jews of Canterbury and the Second Barons War (1264–1267)
When Henry III succeeded to the English throne after the death of his father, King John, in 1216. He initially had the support of the powerful English barons. However, over the years…
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Church Street in Nonington
Church Street was once made up of the present Church Street and what is now known as Pinner’s Lane.
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The Fredville “Step Tree” and other chestnuts. Updated 24.4.20
In the 1930’s Dr. Hardman, a noted East Kent historian recorded the memories of Richard Jarvis Arnold of of life in Nonington in the 1880’s & 90’s. Mr. Arnold, a blacksmith born in Nonington…
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Nonington Parish Charities
Thomas Bate of Challock held land in Challock and Nonington with which he made charitable bequests during the reign of Henry VIII. In Nonington his bequest consisted of:- “Landes given by Thomas…
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Holt Street Farm in Nonington: the Slave Trade, Caribbean Pirates, and the founding of the British Museum.
It is now difficult to believe that the pleasant hamlet of Holt Street, more especially the present Holt Street Farm, had connections to the Atlantic Slave Trade between West Africa and the Caribbean.…
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Nonnington via Sandwich to London by sea, a weekly service!
In the 1830′s Nonington was served by a weekly service to London via the port of Sandwich allowing residents, especially the shop keepers, to have goods brought in from outside of East Kent.…
