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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3933 on: February 18, 2021, 02:19:23 PM »
Sutton Valence?


I couldn`t make up my mind between Sutton Valence or Leeds, not having been to either for some time.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3932 on: February 18, 2021, 02:08:47 PM »
Not Leeds Diapason, but getting closer.


The castle in this village is not as well known as Leeds, or in as good a condition.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3931 on: February 18, 2021, 02:01:24 PM »
Leeds?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3930 on: February 18, 2021, 01:22:20 PM »
Though you are firmly in west Kent with Otford, you are too far west. Head southeast(ish).


With a castle in this village, there is also a large independent school nearby.

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« Reply #3929 on: February 18, 2021, 12:46:53 PM »
how about Otford?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3928 on: February 18, 2021, 11:35:15 AM »
Not Bidenden Pete, which I'm unsure about there being a castle near, but West Kent definitely John Walker.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3927 on: February 18, 2021, 10:27:22 AM »
Many thanks John Walker.
Your father in law and myself must have just missed each other as I went and saw the crumpled remains of the spire a day or so after its collapse.


He lived directly opposite and heard the crash but didn't know what it was until the morning.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3926 on: February 18, 2021, 10:24:24 AM »
West Kent ?

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« Reply #3925 on: February 18, 2021, 08:57:22 AM »
Biddenden?

Offline CAT

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3924 on: February 18, 2021, 08:51:36 AM »
Many thanks John Walker.


Your farther in law and myself must have just missed each other as I went and saw the crumpled remains of the spire a day or so after its collapse. A local at the time suggested even the church tower had been 'on the sauce' during the storm and couldn't even stand upright so had a night in the churchyard.


Here is my next, which is close to a castle, but where...?

Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3923 on: February 17, 2021, 07:12:08 PM »
Go on, I'll bite. St Mary's Church, Minster, Thanet? Needed a new spire after it was blown off in the storm of 1987?


That's the one CAT  :D .  My Father in Law, Allan Yates took the photo a few days after it happened.


Over to you ...

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3922 on: February 17, 2021, 02:45:13 PM »
Go on, I'll bite. St Mary's Church, Minster, Thanet? Needed a new spire after it was blown off in the storm of 1987?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3921 on: February 17, 2021, 12:01:19 PM »
Pub and restaurant nearby.  A Roman villa was found about 300 mtrs from this church.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3920 on: February 16, 2021, 11:06:55 PM »
Does the pile of rubble by the base of the tower have anything to do with the October 1987 storm?
Well spotted JohnFilmer.  Getting hot now

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #3919 on: February 16, 2021, 05:16:43 PM »
Does the pile of rubble by the base of the tower have anything to do with the October 1987 storm?
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