High Halden

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= High Halden
latitude= 51.1034
longitude= 0.7135
civil_parish= High Halden
population = 1463 [ [http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/high_halden.aspx Ashford Borough Council] Census 2001]
shire_district= Ashford
shire_county= Kent
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Ashford
post_town= TONBRIDGE
postcode_district = TN26
postcode_area= TN
dial_code= 01233
os_grid_reference= TQ899373

High Halden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located on the A28 road between Ashford town and Tenterden, 3miles (5km) north of the latter.

History

Fifty tons of oak was used to build the unusual tower and spire of the 10th–14th-century church, St Mary the Virgin, in 1470-1490. The church was restored in 1835 through funds donated by Mrs. Amy Kynaston Sutton, widow of the former vicar Evelyn Levett Sutton. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=6kMJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA152&lpg=RA1-PA152&dq=%22evelyn+levett+sutton%22&source=web&ots=umypYPB_Yj&sig=rjGLquXWxa0CQe7PGWO75sknkl4] ] The public house "The Chequers Inn", circa 1620, is known to have been used by smugglers and the various gangs such as the "Hawkhurst" and "Cranbrook" gangs that were active in the mid-18th century. The parish is recorded in the Domesday Book and parts of a Norman manor house can be seen at "Tiffenden Farm". [ [http://www.ashford.gov.uk/about_the_borough/towns_and_villages/high_halden.aspx Ashford Borough Council] ]

External links

* [http://www.kentchurches.info/parish.asp?p=High+Halden St Mary's church]
* [http://thefriendsofstmarys.org/ Friends of the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin]
* [http://www.highhaldenvillage.info High Halden Village]

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