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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4884 on: July 11, 2021, 08:30:00 AM »
Quote from: Beachbum on July 10, 2021, 11:41:38 PM
Minster Abbey John Walker?


You have it Beachbum - over to you...


A lot of history is attached to this abbey.

The first Monastery at Minster Abbey was founded in 670, and the present buildings date back to 1027. Part of the Abbey was destroyed during the Reformation but some fine buildings remain, and this is still home to a community of Nuns.
It is possibly the oldest inhabited house in England, and the only pre-Reformation Monastery to be currently used as a Religious House in England. The present community returned from Germany in 1937.

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/kent/abbeys/minster-abbey.htm


Around the 1980s there was a rural life museum in the abbey grounds. I used to tidy up and paint old ploughs and mangles for part of the display.  It was a nice working atmosphere with all the other volunteers.  Sometime in the 2000s, the abbey wanted the land back and the museum was dissolved.
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Offline Diapason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4883 on: July 11, 2021, 07:39:21 AM »
Strand Street, Sandwich?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4882 on: July 10, 2021, 11:41:38 PM »
Minster Abbey John Walker?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4881 on: July 10, 2021, 09:01:09 PM »
Quote from: Beachbum on July 10, 2021, 07:57:45 PM
Davington priory at Faversham?


Not there Beachbum - StuartWaters was much nearer with Sandwich area.


According to a village history site, The Danes killed over 70 villagers and Nuns in this area.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4880 on: July 10, 2021, 07:57:45 PM »
Davington priory at Faversham?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4879 on: July 10, 2021, 06:32:06 PM »
A Roman Villa was found in the field next to this GTP although it never seemed to make any headlines as I recall.


This GTP is built on fairly low laying ground with a hill rising behind it.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4878 on: July 10, 2021, 06:30:04 PM »
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Offline stuartwaters

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4877 on: July 10, 2021, 02:46:08 PM »
Sandwich area?
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4876 on: July 10, 2021, 01:47:13 PM »
An estuary used to come very close to this place.  (That should help  :)  )
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4875 on: July 09, 2021, 06:34:49 PM »
Quote from: shoot999 on July 09, 2021, 05:21:08 PM
South of M20?




NNE of the M20 and the A2


Still in use as far as I'm aware.


I used to renovate/paint old ploughs and mangles in the grounds before the re-location of the artefacts.
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Offline shoot999

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4874 on: July 09, 2021, 05:21:08 PM »
South of M20?
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4873 on: July 09, 2021, 04:43:27 PM »
Station 400 mtrs away.
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Offline John Walker

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4872 on: July 09, 2021, 02:04:44 PM »
Church with spire almost opposite.
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4871 on: July 08, 2021, 03:52:19 PM »
Quote from: Diapason on July 08, 2021, 02:40:34 PM
First guess -  Close to Charing Church.


More likely to be within or close to the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.


Neither of those Diapason.  I'll hold back on clues other than to say it's not West Kent but the building can be seen on GSV (Not this view).
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #4870 on: July 08, 2021, 02:40:34 PM »
First guess -  Close to Charing Church.


More likely to be within or close to the Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral.
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