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East Peckham

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572: 63: 45: 527:. Large, populated parts used to flood with unusual frequency among parishes along the Medway. The East Peckham Flood Relief partnership was formed in 2003. A dam since 2005 exists on the Coult Stream at Bullen Farm. It is 160 metres (170 yd) long and 4 metres (13 ft) high and has the capacity to hold 80,000 cubic metres (18,000,000 imp gal) of floodwater. The scheme cost just over £1 million. 1578: 1296: 1313: 1288: 1267: 70: 253: 708: 442:
Of the land of this manor, one of the archbishop's tenants holds half a sulung, and was taxed with these six sulungs in the time of King Edward the Confessor, although it could not belong to the manor, except in the scotting, because it was free
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and open daily. In the mid-nineteenth century the new parish church of the Holy Trinity was built in what had for centuries been, and likely since the first multi-family settlement arose, the parish population centre. The architects were
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James Pimm (1798–1866) was a British food proprietor who created the gin-based liqueur known as Pimm's. Pimm died on 16 August 1866 at the family home in East Peckham. He is buried at Holy Trinity Church, East Peckham, Kent, England.
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for towns of 2 mph (3.2 km/h). He had been caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle. He was fined 1 shilling plus costs, the first speeding fine in England, and thus became the first person to be convicted of
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holds of the same favour two sulungs and one yoke, and has there twenty-seven villeins, having seven carucates, and wood for the pannage of ten hogs. The whole value being
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East Peckham developed from nine hamlets (Roydon, Hale Street, Beltring, Little Mill, The Pound, Snoll Hatch, The Bush, Goose Green and Chidley Cross). These straddle the
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Pound Road has most of the village's amenities including the primary school, Co-op convenience store, local shops and the now closed Merry Boys pub.
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company of East Peckham, was summonsed for travelling at 8 mph (13 km/h) in a motorised vehicle, thereby exceeding the contemporary
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growing and other agriculture, in which sector plant growing remains economically important, including two garden centres.
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How a Farmer’s Son Invented the Taste of the Social Summer, by Mark Gardner, Faversham Times, 25 June 2005
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There is a persistent myth that the village was originally around the far northern border with
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In 2012, a local amateur theatre group, The Russett Players, was formed in the village.
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it was taxed at six sulungs, and now six sulungs and one yoke. The arable land is ten
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The Russett Players – Official website for East Peckham's amateur dramatic society
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Brookside Garden Centre is located in the village, and was opened in 1968.
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is the closest rail station to East Peckham and is served by hourly
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of Maidstone, and the foundation stone was laid on 24 October 1840.
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is another residential area to the east of the main village.
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The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
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joins the Medway in the south of the parish and powered a
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church stands on high ground there, now cared for by the
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Peckham Bush

St Michael's Church
East Peckham is located in Kent
Kent
Density
OS grid reference
TQ662482
District
Tonbridge and Malling
Shire county
Kent
Region
South East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Tonbridge
Postcode district
TN12
Dialling code
Police
Kent
Fire
Kent
Ambulance
South East Coast
UK Parliament
Tonbridge & Malling

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