Sometimes a picture delivers all you want.
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| 2023 |
We are just a few minutes walk from the village of Great Mongeham which my wikpedia tells me “is a village and civil parish in the Dover District of east Kent, England, on the outskirts of Deal.
Its name is derived from Mundelingham or village of Mundel.
Parts of Great Mongeham's church, St Martin's, date back to the 13th century. In the 19th century it was restored by William Butterfield.
It may have been a settlement as long ago as the Bronze Age.
When the site for the new primary school was being dug in February 1949 the body of a man and two fragments of food vessels were found. The man was in the crouched burial position used in the Bronze Age and one of the fragments was dated to about 1000 BC.
Great Mongeham is close to the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough Castle. Archaeologists have discovered Roman pottery and evidence of cremation but we do not know if there was a permanent settlement here at that time”.*
2019
It is home to our Elizabeth and Colin who share it with 760 other residents.
Like Liz and Col I was born and grew up in London and I can see why they like living among fields, tractors and twisty lanes.
And that is it.
Pictures; the field from the lane, 2023 from the collection of Liz and Colin Fitspatrick, and courtesy of Google Maps, 2019
* Great Mongeham, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mongeham
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