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Fordwich - the lost port
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Edited by K.H.McIntosh
Illustrations and Map by Roger Higham ISBN 0 9502423 2 2. First edition 1975, second edition 1983. Price: £2.50 This A5 size paperback has 125 pages and includes old photographs, line drawings and a pull out sketch map. The front covers have some damage, hence the reduced price. |
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Local historical articles on Fordwich - the lost port
This book is a companion to Sturry - The Changing Scene and the page numbers are continuous from those in it.
This books gives local historical information on how Fordwich grew from pre-Roman settlement, its links with building Canterbury Cathedral, the links with the Cinque Ports and local village life
The topics covered in this book include:
How Fordwich grew
A pre-Roman settlement near Fordwich
The handaxes from Fordwich
Fordwich Church
The Fordwich Stone and the Church Porch
Ancient Route in the Parish of Fordwich
Fordwich Burgesses in AD 1111
Farming and Landolding in the Parish of Fordwich
The Town Hall
Ship Model in Fordwich Church
The Fordwich Custumal
Fordwich and the Cinque Ports
Justice:Civil and Criminal
Houses of Fordwich
Watergate House Mural
Wyke or "The Mote"
Fordwich Brasses
Fordwich and Sturry in the Church Courts
Lukyn family
Mayors of Fordwich
Heraldic Devices of Fordwich
Australian Pioneers - John and Gregory Blaxland
Fordwich and Sturry 17th century tokens
Fordwich Port
Tancrey
Rectors of Fordwich
Colonel Short -The Fordwich Ghost
Decay of Fordwich as a port
Fordwich School
Fordwich in fiction
The gravel quarry at Fordwich
Flora of Fordwich
Return of a Blaxland
A military incident
The Dickens Fair
Fordwich, Ontario, Canada
White Mill, Sturry - and the Fulling Mill and the Corn Mill
Trenley Park camp
Sturry Court under St. Augustine's Abbey
Dad's Army at Trenley Park
Index of names and arms
Fordwich village book
This book would appeal to anyone who has lived in the Fordwich, and also to those whose realtives came from Fordwich village.