Crundale, Kent
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Geography
About a quarter of the village is woodland, and barring its western side which slopes steeply to the Great Stour, which is at Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level, most of the rest of its land is at more than Script error: No such module "convert". above Ordnance Datum.
Amenities
The community living in the civil parish is relatively small - many of its activities are shared with the neighbouring parish of Godmersham.
History
An early Anglo-Saxon gold buckle and other princely items from a grave dating from the mid-7th century were found in the Crundale Downs in 1861 and are now in the British Museum.[1] The intricately designed object is notable for the representation of a three dimensional appliqué fish.
The early Norman parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin and is a building listed in the highest category of the national system, at Grade I.[2] It is on the escarpment of the Crundale Downs, a less eroded top layer of the escarpment, making it higher, about half a mile southeast of the village mainstay which is made up of dual clusters very close to each other and connected by road and by separate footpath.[3] The tombs of Juliana Hervey and Reverend Francis Paine are separately listed.
Recreation
The Stour Valley Walk runs north–south through the civil parish, linking to Canterbury and to Ashford.[3]
References
- ↑ British Museum Collection
- ↑ Church to St Mary Template:NHLE
- ↑ a b Outline civil parish map Neighbourhood Statistics. The Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
External links
- Crundale Church at John E. Vigar's Kent Churches
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