Guess the Place

[johnfilmer]

Grandarog, I thought you might mean those bridges, but they are in use, mine is bypassed by a new bridge alongside it.


JW has found it on Bell Lane Smarden. It’s not quite halfway between the junction at Shenley  Road and the Bell pub. It is called Hadmans Bridge.


Once more into the breach JW 

[grandarog]

There are 2 Bridges over the Beult at Hertsfield allegedly on Forge Lane.. Connected by an Island in the Moddle . One is Cross in Hand  and Other is Rabbits Cross.
I only have the following to verify my guess. Further research suggests the bridges might be on Chart Hill Road which leads to Forge Lane.


https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1209182

[John Walker]

Bell Lane, Smarden ?

[pete.mason]

Town bridge Yalding?

[johnfilmer]

Grandarog, I’m afraid Mr Google and I are having trouble finding your chosen spot.


However I’m certain that the bridge is not on Forge Lane (according to the road signs).

[grandarog]

Bridge on the River Beult Rabbits Cross Side ,at Forge Lane, Hertsfield.

[johnfilmer]

Right river JW, but which bridge, where?

[John Walker]

River Beult ?

[johnfilmer]

West from Wye, and down a bit. Golden Shot, never heard of it

[pete.mason]

Wye Bridge?

[johnfilmer]

Mid Kent

[johnfilmer]

Apologies for the delay, I'm unable to do much when my wife is on Zoom, and then I forgot 
So where is this Grade 2 listed medieval bridge - now bypassed.

[John Walker]

Well done JohnFilmer     Spot on.


There are three cemeteries in that immediate area.  St Mary's Cemetery where my earlier GTP was taken.  St James Cemetery and this one is Charlton Cemetery. 


St James Cemetery is of particular interest.

During the First World War, Dover was a port of embarkation for troops bound for the Western Front and between August 1914 and August 1919 some 1,300,000 Commonwealth sick and wounded were landed there. The port was bombed in 1915 and again in August 1916.
There are 387 identified burials of the 1914-1918 war here. In addition there are 19 unidentified burials, 9 of whom can be named as victims of the Zeebrugge Raid, and these 9 are inscribed on a Special Memorial on the Cross of Sacrifice in the Zeebrugge Plot.

In 1940, Dover was the headquarters for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk and nearly 200,000 of the 366,000 British and Allied troops brought back during the operation were landed there. Throughout the war Dover was a particular target for the long range guns on the French coast and between September 1939 and May 1945 there were no less than 742 attacks by air raid and shelling.
Most of the 356 Second World War burials are contained in a special war graves plot at the far end of the cemetery. The plot, know as the Dunkirk plot, contains many graves from the Dunkirk operation. 22 of these burials are unidentified. There are also 8 Foreign National war burials and 3 non war service burials in the cemetery.





Over to you.

[johnfilmer]

Aha! Sneaking back to previously trodden ground


Cemetery entrance at junction of Old Charlton Road, Dane Court and Roman Road, Dover.

[John Walker]

Thanks CAT - a very interesting one.  Not an area one would expect to find a pond in.  What a shame the pond has been reduced so much.  Your mention of a Kentish Saint put me in the right area.  You were on the right lines too Pete.


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