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 Issue No. 3

Lynsted with Kingsdown Society

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February 2005

 Keeping you updated

 Dates for Your Diary

24 March: Deadline for Orchard Group Competition to name the sculptured seat in the Community Orchard. Visit the Parish Council Website here.....

If you haven’t visited recently, here are some of the latest additions, with particular thanks to Peter Stuart for many of them:

• Crimes in Lynsted in 16th and 17th Centuries
• Census Data updates
• Flow Diagram: to help understand our Hatchments
• Sunday Times mentions Lynsted
• 1871 Census - family names in Lynsted
• 1908-09 Directory - find your house or family
• London Marriage Licences - 17th Century
• Article on Bats in our Parish
• Walkies! A member asked about tides on our beaches. Here is a useful link (Margate, but you can pick anywhere in the world) that can also be found on our Links Page.
• New Links: Several in the Natural World Category and a new “Wet Afternoons” category
• Bird Box Diary 2005: Pictures as we follow the fortunes of a blue tit.

15 April: Where do place names in Kent and around Lynsted come from? Join us and Dr. Paul Cullen to find out......

11 June: Member’s visit to Tenterden vineyard on a 1948 vintage double-decker bus. If you want to join in, here are some details.....

24 June: Society Barbeque. Members and their families only event

9 October: Fungus Foray with Jo Weightman in local woodland.

A busy year - planned events updated here..... (There are other events run by the Kent History Federation. Our Society is affiliated, so Members of our Society can take part).

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