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3 unusual facts about New Romney


Littlestone-on-Sea

Littlestone-on-Sea is a small coastal village close to New Romney.

New Romney

In 1951 the Richard Burton, Roger Livesey, and Honor Blackman film Green Grow the Rushes was made on location in and around New Romney and in nearby St Mary in the Marsh.

The golf course was a favourite of Denis Thatcher, late husband of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and has been used several times for the qualifying rounds of The Open Championship.


Hall Place

The house remained in the Austen family until the mid 18th century when Robert Austen (1697–1743), the 4th baronet (Sheriff of Kent in 1724 and MP for New Romney from April 1728 to 1734), died and the estate was eventually purchased (c. 1772) by his brother-in-law Sir Francis Dashwood, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club.


see also

John Knatchbull

Sir John Knatchbull, 2nd Baronet (c. 1630–1696), English MP for Kent and New Romney