Guess the Place

[Diapason]

Biggin Hill  -  "The Old Jail" or "The Aperfield Inn" seem to fit the clues.

[pete.mason]

Mayfly Hawkinge?

[John Walker]

Hi DTT - Yes it's a subtle clue but not fox hunting use of the phrase.  This pub does have a rather unusual name and of course the WW2 connection is important.
Chocks away!

[DaveTheTrain]

Is that a  clue, JW?  If so is it something like the hare and hounds, or Huntsman?  No idea of location, however.

[John Walker]

The story goes that it was originally named The Red Lion.


Tally Ho chaps

[John Walker]

CAT 


Diapason, not Dartford - wrong end of county.




Has WW2 connections.

[CAT]

Sorry about that John Walker, i guess you fell into the 'old ruined churches and chapels of Kent and double named villages' trap that we all do at some time.


Seems your next one follows a similar tradition of the double named villages?

[Diapason]

The Hufflers Arms, Dartford?

[John Walker]

Thanks CAT - a very interesting one and not easy to find.  The church at Paddlesworth fitted your clues quite well with the exception of being near water.  Had connections with Dode and there's a Paddlesworth both ends of the county and the church is similar.  I thought I'd cracked it with that one




Next one ..

[MartinR]

Thanks Cat, I thought that that would be the one.  Goodness only knows why Google Maps thinks it's Pentecostal though.  The other New Covenant Church is a total red herring, it seems to have grown out of Nigeria and then moved to the UK.  The enclosed link may be of interest, in the gallery it includes pictures of the chancel arch.
https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/gravesend-st-mary-chapel-of-ease/

[CAT]

The church today is known as St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Denton, Gravesend. If you head east along the A266 (East Milton Road) from St Peter & St Paul's Church, Miltonit rapidly turns south and becomes Rochester Road. Carry on along here for a very short distance and the church is on the northern side of the road just before the turning for Denton Court Road and opposite St john's R.C. Primary Road. I also have another external view of the same date (late eighteenth century) showing the chancel east end if you are interested?


Happy hunting Martin R

[MartinR]

Any chance of a bit more info Cat?  Searching on the Internet I've found the New Covenant Church, Gravesend branch which is in Dunkirk Close.  Then there's the New Covenant Church, Gravesend on Rochester Road, just opposite St. John's RC primary school.  Trouble is, according to Google that one is Pentecostal, again not RC.  Google also turns up a reference to Holy Family Church, Palmer Ave, Gravesend which is thinks is the same as the Rochester Road one.  I'm confused!

[CAT]

That's its current name following its rededication back to the Catholic faith after its restoration in 1940. Thought to date from approx. 1100, its link with Dode chapel was a Mr Arnold, who restored both Dode and this church, which was originally the parish church of Denton (other Denton is between Canterbury and Dover). Originally dedicated to St Mary, it had fallen into ruin by the sixteenth century after the village shrunk/moved. By the later fourteenth century a new church dedicated to SS Peter & Paul had been built, literally up the road, sealing the fate of St Mary's even further. The view I posted was from the late eighteenth century from the north looking south with the arch being the chancel arch with the ruined chancel to the left.


Well done John Walker, over to you

[John Walker]

How about the New Covenant Church, Denton, Gravesend ?

[CAT]

Your heading the right way John Walker. I can see your thinking, but you have to be heading further north