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unusual facts about The Abbey School, Faversham



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.

Krissi Murison

Murison attended The Abbey School in Reading from 1993–2000, going on to study English Literature at Bristol University, where she edited the music pages of student newspaper Epigram.

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.

Reading Central Library

It is also very near the old Abbey gateway, where Jane Austen went to school, and which is the ancestor of the current Abbey School.

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.

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".

The Abbey School, Faversham

In 2006, headteacher Peter Walker retired from his position to become Britain's official ambassador for drug testing and gave a presentation to John Walters, the director of the White House drug policy office.

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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