Touché sir! That made me laugh....I miss Blighty.. Nick
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 9, 2015, at 01:54, Nick <[email protected]> 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, > published in AD 1086, i.e. nearly 130 years earlier than the first Magna > Carta, and 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 charter in AD 841 . The current church has been there since AD > 1119. :) See Goudhurst Village Website 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! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/15ca9b7d-8e51-438a-a6c0-b79181b8d666%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/502857F0-75DB-436D-83A8-F51A4C5DB175%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
