Monks Horton

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The Church of St Peter, Monks Horton

Monks Horton is a small civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It is located Script error: No such module "convert". north of Hythe. Within the civil parish are the hamlets of Horton and Broad Street. The parish is governed by a parish meeting, rather than a parish council, because of its small size. The name comes from there having been a medieval priory built here.[1]

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Mount Morris, Monks Horton, the Seat of Morris Drake Morris, Esq. Engraved by Johannes Kip after Thomas Badeslade, 1719.

The population of the parish in 2001 was 95.[2]

In popular culture

Author Russell Hoban repurposes Monks Horton as "Monkeys Whoar Town" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.[3]

References

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  1. 'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Monkshorton', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2 (VCH, London 1926), pp. 151-153 (British History Online accessed 23 October 2017).
  2. 2001 Census
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