Eastry

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Eastry
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Eastry
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Eastry
Location within Kent
Population2,492 (Including Ham. 2011) [1]
OS grid reference TR332458
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SANDWICH
Postcode district CT13
Dialling code 01304
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
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51°14′43″N1°18′12″E / 51.2452°N 1.3034°E / 51.2452; 1.3034

Eastry is a civil parish in Kent, England, around 2+12 miles (4 km) southwest of Sandwich. It was voted "Kent Village of the Year 2005".

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The name is derived from the Old English Ēast-rige , meaning "eastern province" (c.f. Sūþ-rige "southern province"), also recorded as Ēastregē, from ēasterra gē (lit. "more easterly area"). [2]

Historical legends

Eastry lies on the Roman road north from Dover to Richborough Castle.

In the Early Middle Ages, Eastry was part of the Kingdom of Kent and was an important administrative centre. [3] It was here that a royal palace of the Saxon kings of Kent stood. One of Kent's oldest legends concerns King Ecgberht of Kent and the murder of his young cousins, Æthelred and Æthelberht, within the palace walls. According to the legend, the royal residence was passed to the priory of Christchurch in Canterbury as penance for the crime. The site of this ancient palace is believed to now be occupied by Eastry Court, adjacent to the church. An archaeological dig by Time Team in 2006 failed to find the royal palace. [4]

Parish church

Eastry's Grade I listed [5] Anglican church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin. Within the church is a brass standard bushel measure given in 1792.

Governance

An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward stretches south to Sutton, Kent with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 5,199. [6]

East Kent Light Railway

The East Kent Light Railway was opened to freight traffic in 1911 and passenger traffic in 1916. Its purpose was to serve the new coal mines which were being opened up in the area. Among the stations opened were 'Eastry' and 'Eastry South'. It was one of Colonel Stephens' lines, but was nationalized in 1948 becoming part of British Railways, Southern Region. Both the colliery and the line failed and the section north of Eythorne completely closed by 1951.

The village is also on the Miner's Way Trail. The trail links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent. [7]

Mills

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Eastry windmill

Eastry has had a number of windmills over the centuries. There were four mills marked on the 1819 - 1843 Ordnance Survey map, one of which, the Upper Mill, has been converted into a house. Currently there are three windmills in Eastry.

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References

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  2. Hasted, Edward (1800). "Parishes". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Vol. 10. Institute of Historical Research. pp. 98–121. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
  3. Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick (1979). "Eastry in Anglo-Saxon Kent: its Importance and a Newly-Found Grave". Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History. 1: 95.
  4. Time Team s13 ep6
  5. British Listed Buildings retrieved 20 July 2013
  6. "Ward population 2011" . Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  7. "The History of the Coalfield Parishes". www.dover.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2013.