Author: admin

With updated links to other relevant pages

I have previously proposed that the name Nonington, applicable to the settlement around the village church,  had its origins due  the location of the settlement  on four aratra [sulungs or hides] of land “aet [at, by or next to] Oesewalum” owned jointly in the late 700’s and early 800’s  by Aldberht, an earldorman, and Selethryth, […]

Long and careful consideration of information brought to light in recent research and a subsequent re-appraisal of existing documentary evidence has led me to conclude that an estate known as  Oesewalum was not actually situated in what became the old parish of Nonington in East Kent, but was in fact located near Harrow in the […]

I have recently had the good fortune to fine a top quality photographic postcard of the Elizabethan Nonington Church communion cup and cover which clearly shows the cup and cover in great detail. The postcard appears to date from the 1920’s or 1930’s and would have been sold in local Nonington shops. The following information […]

Published in Archaeologia Cantiana, Volume 145, 2024, by The Kent Archaeological Society. Keith Parfitt of the Dover Archaeological Group Click on the picture above to read the article

Nonnington via Sandwich to London by sea, a weekly service! An original handbill advertising the weekly service by sea aboard “The Fortune” from Chester’s Quay near the Tower of London to Sandwich. The service carried “goods and passengers for Sandwich, Walmer, Wingham, Eastry, Mongham, Goodnestone, Deal, Ash, Littlebourn, Tilmanstone, Nonnington, Eythorn”. In the 1830′s Nonington was served by […]

Esther, a Nonington witch The parish of Nonington did not escape the horror and injustice of the “witch-hunts” in Puritan Kent. In his book “Those Superstitions”, published in 1932, Sir Charles Iggleston tells the sad story of the persecution and death of Esther, a “witch” who lived and supposedly practiced her “craft” somewhere in Nonington. Unfortunately neither […]