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Date
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Topic
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Location
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Source
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Prehistoric
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Barrow
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Newlands Farm, Norton
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Prehistoric
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Field Systems
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Teynham Park (Roper Estate)
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Teynham Hundred Book (THB)
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Late Iron Age
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Ditches in Lynsted Village
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Stedlyn Site
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Excavation Report
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Roman Britain
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Watling Street (Often called Greenstreet after the Family of that name)
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Teynham/Lynsted Parish Boundary
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Roman Britain?
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Stoney Path
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off Cambridge Lane
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597
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Aethelberht I (560-616), King of Kent
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Gave dwelling in Canterbury to missionaries to Kent, from Pope Gregory I.
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Enc. Britannica
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1205
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Hubert Walter - Archbishop of Canterbury
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Dies in Teynham
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Mediaeval
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Barge traffic of goods to London (and smuggling)
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Conyer Creek
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1229
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Lynsted Church given to archdeacon Simon Langton. Mentioned as “Chapel of Teynham” in the Archbishop’s “Black Book”. Dedicated to St Peter and St Paul
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Lynsted
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THB
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1252
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Kingsdown Church first built
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Kingsdown
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THB (quoting Harris’s History of Kent
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1313
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First recorded rector of Kingsdown Church
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Kingsdown
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Redundant Churches Fund Booklet, May 1991
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1381
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Watt Tyler’s Rebellion - area included in retribution because of local support
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Teynham
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14th Century
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Kingsdown Church Bell made - still in modern church
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Kingsdown
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RCFB 1991
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Early 14th C.
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Lynsted Church tower built
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Lynsted
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THB
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14th, 15th, 16th Centuries
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Greenstreet Family recorded
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Lynsted (Claxfield to Cellar Hill)
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THB
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14th-15th C.
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Bogylls Family recorded
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1327
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32 Names shown - Parish described as well cultivated (agricultural)
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Lynsted Parish
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THB - quoting 1327 Subsidy Roll
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c. 1440
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Thomas de Apuldorfield seat recorded (Arms at Lenham)
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Lynsted
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Ancient Funeral Monuments, 1631
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15th Century
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Lynsted Court (or Sewards)
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Lynsted
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Medieval Houses of Kent
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c.1520
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Tudor Cottage built - illustration
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Cellar Hill, Lynsted
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Original research by current owner
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16th Century
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Weyman Family recorded
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Cellar Hill, Lynsted
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16th Century
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Peter Motte recorded
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Beaugill and Bumpette, Lynsted
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16th Century
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Anchor House - partially rebuilt after wartime damage in August 1940
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Lynsted
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THB
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16th Century
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The Vicarage (19th C. white-painted wings were added)
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Lynsted
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THB
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1600’s - 1700’s
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Defining group of houses built below the churchyard - southern edge marked by the old Post Office set opposite Forge Cottage, and Anchor House
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Lynsted
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THB
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1599
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Christopher Roper built the Manor House (named it “Logge” - Lodge) in the Park, which he enclosed. Replacing the old Bedmangore Manor House (he deemed “too small”)
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Lynsted
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THB
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1649 Manor Roll
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“Mussons” recorded - previously the butcher’s shop and house
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Greenstreet, Lynsted
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THB
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1616
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Sir John Roper created Lord of the Manor of Teynham by James I. Mausoleum in Lynsted Church
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Teynham
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THB
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1663
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Henry Eve became vicar of Teynham, Linsted, Midley and Buckland.
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Lived in Sundries, Lynsted
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Selby
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1671
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“White Swan” (former) brew-house recorded
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Greenstreet, Lynsted
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THB
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1679
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“The George Inn” recorded
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Greenstreet, Lynsted
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THB
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