Less than two miles from my house, is a small village that I never go to. And all because, when they built a new road to bypass the village, they effectively seperated it from the estate where I live.
However, you can see the village church clearly from anywhere in the locality, as it stands tall and proud on a mound at the highest point of the village. Every time I go down that road, I think, I really must go and take a look.
So today, I made time to do just that - not just the church, but the entire village. And I was amazed at what I found.
Now - I'm going to start putting up the pictures and writing the piece to go with them. I need to do a lot of research first, into not just the buildings, but some of the people who were obviously important to the village.
There is a V.C buried in the churchyard whose name I didn't recognise, and there is one corner of the church that is purely in memorium of members of one family, who really were important to the village. I'd never heard of them either.
I'm going to paint a concise picture of the church and village, and then do some research on the people, and write my findings up as and when I can. Therefore, you may have to call back from time to time, to discover what I've found.
So - the village is called Great Chart, and it will appear on the Kent2 page.
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