Ancient and Modern
From my workshop I can see a neolithic (4000BC - 2500BC) burial cairn
in the field beind the house.
Beyond that is Black Rock Gorge which was used in part of the Harry
Potter dragon chase sequence in film 4.
On 09/02/2015 09:54, Nick wrote:
On Sunday, 8 February 2015 18:09:07 UTC, Pramanicin wrote:
Ah, but does your village have the remains of a Norman Castle in
it and is mentioned in the Magna Carta? I think not....ha ha.
OT WARNING - NO NIXIE CONTENT!
Ummm. How shall I put this nicely :)
The answers to your questions are actually, "Yes" and "no parishes
were" - the Magna Carta is not about parishes, its largely a bill of
rights and responsibilities. Further, we have the remains (not a lot,
I'll admit) of a Norman wooden motte and bailey fort in the river
valley here - I can see it from my workshop.
In these parts, we tend to regard the Magna Carta as rather "nouveau"
- a bit passé - the village and its priory are mentioned in the
Domesday Book <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book>, published
in AD 1086, i.e. nearly 130 years earlier than the first Magna Carta,
and Bedgebury Forest <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedgebury_Forest>
(also in the parish) is the longest piece of continuously managed
woodland in the Western World, fully documented without interruption
(including wars etc.) from AD 1067 when Bishop Odo, the half-brother
of William the Conquerer, took it over to the current day - however,
even he was a late-comer - the forest is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon> charter in AD 841 . The
current church has been there since AD 1119. :) See Goudhurst Village
Website <http://goudhurst.co.uk/Pages/local_history_society.html> and
lots of other places! The village high street looks much the same as
it did several 100 years ago (except the road is not mud any more!).
Beat that!
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