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unusual facts about Faversham


St Catherine's Church, Preston-next-Faversham

Sir John Betjeman in the Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches has described St Catherine's as, "high and distinguished among the railways and breweries".


Arden of Faversham

In fact, the house in which he was murdered (which is still standing in Faversham) was a former guest house of Faversham Abbey, the Benedictine abbey near the town.

Luddenham

Luddenham, Kent - a hamlet or small village near Faversham in Kent, England.

Norton, Buckland and Stone

Stone, or Stone-next-Faversham, found close to Ospringe in the east has just a cottage, a farm and its Anglo-Saxon chapel, a scheduled ancient monument and English Heritage's Maison Dieu, a museum housing archaeological finds from that chapel and form the Roman cemetery of the town of Durolevum, the westerly predecessor to Faversham.

Oare

Oare Marshes, Kent, internationally important nature reserve near Faversham

Peter Firmin

Charlotte is also an illustrator; as is Hannah, known for her book jacket illustrations for Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series; Josie, who runs hand-painted china shops in London and Canterbury; Katy,who works for a farmers' cooperative in Faversham, Lucy,a pattern-cutter for fashion houses in Italy and Emily, the youngest, who appeared in the opening sequence of Bagpuss, and is a papier mache artist and printmaker living in Whitstable.

Seasalter

It is located by the sea on the north coast of Kent, between the towns of Whitstable and Faversham, facing the Isle of Sheppey across the estuary of the River Swale.

Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills

It was one of three Royal Gunpowder Mills in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the other mills were at Ballincollig and Faversham, but is the only site to have survived virtually intact.


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