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Charing
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History
The name Charing first appears in 799 as Ciorrincg. The name probably comes from the Anglo-Saxon word cerring, which means a bend in the road, or it may be from Ceorra-ingas, which is Anglo-Saxon, meaning people of Ceorra. The village is sited on the Pilgrims' Way from London to Canterbury, and is one day's walk from Canterbury. There are a number of old manors located around the village, such as Newlands (now a horse stud) and Pett Place. The village had a market recorded in 1285, and a fair recorded in the fifteenth century.The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Charing, the parish church of Charing, is situated next to the remains of the Archbishop's Palace, just off the High Street. The church's west tower was built in the 14th century, though most of the rest of the building was reconstructed following a catastrophic fire in the 16th century. The church contains a number of memorials to the Dering family, a branch of the Dering family of Surrenden Dering, Pluckley, Kent.The Monuments and Painted Glass of Upwards of One Hundred Churches, Philip Parsons, Printed by Simmons, Kirkby and Jones, Canterbury, 1794Mills
Charing has had four mills over the centuries, serving the needs of the villagers. There were two watermills on the Upper Great Stour and two windmills.- Watermills
- Burnt Mill, a corn mill working until the 1950s, now derelict.
- Field Mill, a corn mill, the building of which survives retaining its waterwheel.
- Windmills
- Charing Mill, also known as Field Mill on the Downs above the village is a smock mill which was built in the early nineteenth century and last worked in 1891. It stands today as a house conversion.BOOK, Jenny, West, 1973, The Windmills of Kent, 28â30, Charles Skilton Ltd., London, 0284-98534-1, BOOK, William, Coles Finch, William Coles Finch, 1933, Watermills and Windmills, C W Daniel Company, London, 177,
- Charing Heath Mill was a smock mill that was demolished c.1878. Millers include William Missing in 1845 and Robert Millgate 1862 â 1878WEB,weblink The Mills Archive Trust, Directory of Kent Mill People, 14 April 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20090416174906weblink">weblink 16 April 2009, dmy-all,
Places of interest
Its most famous building is the Archbishop's Palace, which lies by the church and was an ancient possession of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The palace was an important building in the diocese of Canterbury, and counted amongst its guests King Henry VIII, who took it for himself. It has been a farmhouse for the last 300 years. In 2004, the palace was an unsuccessful contestant in the BBC television programme Restoration, where a number of potential restoration projects throughout the UK competed for funds. The church is said to contain the stone on which John the Baptist was beheaded.Amenities
File:St Peter's Church, Market Place, Charing, Kent - geograph.org.uk - 1393920.jpg|thumb|Church of St Peter and St Paul, a grade I listed buildinggrade I listed buildingThese include:- C of E Primary School
- Library
- Doctors' surgery
- Independent shops/franchises
- Kentish Tea Room
- Two mid-to-large sized pubs, most of which are listed buildings:
- The Bowl
- The Wagon & Horses
- The Kent County Crematorium. At which were cremated 60 Commonwealth service personnel of World War IIWEB,weblink CWGC Cemetery Record, Charing Crematorium, cwgc.org, and the author Charles Hamilton, who as Frank Richards created Billy Bunter. Here also were cremated Archbishops William Temple and Cosmo Gordon Lang.
Community
Housing development since the 1960s has also led to a significant proportion of people employed in London or business parks on the motorway corridors. Groups of residents organise frequent club-based or charity events and fairs. Charing has in the same period revived its Youth Club and cricket team/facilities. There is also a bowls club. A skate park has been added. A Community Warden assists the youths.Demography
{| class="wikitable" id="toc" style="float: right; margin-left: 2em; width: 40%; font-size: 90%;" cellspacing="3"!colspan="4"|Charing comparedTransport
Transport links provided by the A20 London to Dover road, and direct train services to Ashford International and London Victoria via Maidstone East.There are two bus stops in Charing, with the only bus services running through being the 10X and 124, which runs exclusively as a school bus.Train services are operated by Southeastern, with one train in each direction throughout the middle hours of the day, and an much enhanced service during the morning and evening peak periods.Charing railway station was opened on 1 July 1884,WEB , as part of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) extension to {{rws|Ashford West}} of the 1874 line to Maidstone, which itself was a branch off the LCDR's Sevenoaks branch of 1862, which joined the LCDR mainline of 1840 at Swanley. In the wake of 1955 British Rail Modernisation plan, the "Kent Coast Electrification" scheme saw the suburban electrification of the previous Southern Railway extended from Maidstone East through to Ashford. The only line to stop in Charing is the London Victoria line.WEB ,References
{{reflist|30em}}External links
{{Commons category|Charing}}- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20100130033350weblink">Charing village web site (2010 archive copy)
- current (2022) (parish council maintained) village site
- The Oak, Charing, web site (dead link 2022 - probably has not been active for some years)
- The Beauties of England and Wales, John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris, 1808
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