Biddenden village and church, Kent

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biddenden

"Biddenden is a large, mostly agricultural and wooded village and civil parish in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. The village lies on the Weald of Kent, 5 miles (8 km) north of Tenterden. It was a centre for the Wealden iron industry and clothmaking.

All Saints Biddenden is the parish church, built mostly in the 13th century. There was likely an earlier Saxon church here. During the half-century reign of Edward III, Flemish clothworkers were settled in the area. The ready availability of raw materials led to the establishment of a flourishing textile industry for the production of broadcloth. Wealth from this industry built many of the fine houses in town.

Biddenden Place was the ancestral home of the Mayney or Mayne family: the village school, originally founded in 1522, is named after its benefactor John Mayne. [4] 

In 1100, Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, a pair of conjoined twins, were supposedly born in the village. The origin of the perpetual charity of Biddenden is celebrated in the village signage of the Biddenden Maids, as they became known. The Biddenden Consolidated Charity provides Biddenden pensioners and widows with bread, cheese, and tea at Easter, a cash payment at Christmas, and distribution of Biddenden cakes.[5]

Biddenden was served for nearly five decades by Biddenden railway station, on the Kent and East Sussex Railway. The station opened on 15 May 1905 and closed on 4 January 1954.[8]

Bygone Buses was based in Biddenden during the late 1980s and early 1990s. It was sold to Maidstone & District Motor Services."

https://biddenden.gov.uk/

Address

All Saints, Biddenden

High St

Biddenden

Ashford TN27 8AJ

Email

clerk@biddenden.gov.uk

Phone

Website

https://biddenden.gov.uk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biddenden

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/19577/

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/19577/facilities/

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Amenities

Turner Stores

2 High St

Biddenden

Ashford TN27 8AH

+ The Bakehouse Cafè

8-10 High St

Biddenden

Ashford TN27 8AH

+ Biddenden Vineyards

Gribble Bridge Lane

Biddenden

Ashford TN27 8DF

+ Biddenden village hall https://www.biddendenvillagehalls.org/

https://www.biddendenvillagehalls.org/contact/

Tenterden Road

Biddenden

Ashford

Kent

TN27 8BJ  What three words location: Branch.Perfume.Stretcher