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church and is situated on a bank beside the River Stour, The Local
Ecumenical Partnership enables the congregation to be of mixed denomination - either Methodist or Anglican. The large parish of St Nicholas incorporates the villages of Sturry with Fordwich and Westbere with
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club playing off Field Way since 1863. In 2005 Sturry
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