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The second oldest alehouse in the old parish of Nonington was “The Redd Lyon”, later “The Red Lion”, at Frogham which is a hamlet some  mile and a half or so as the crow flies to the south of St. Mary’s Church. Some of the old alehouse out-buildings still stand on the north side of […]

William Hasted in his ‘History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent’ vol. IX, published in 1800, has a brief history of Soles. SOLES is a manor at the boundary of this parish, next to Barfreston, which at the taking the survey of Domesday, in 1080, was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, […]

In 1368 Sir John’s nephew Roger and other co-heirs offered “le manoir de Easole” to the Priory of Christ Church in Canterbury on the condition: “namely, that one of your monks there should be perpetually specially assigned and deputed to sing mass, at the Altar of Our Lady in the Crypt, wearing vestments decorated with […]

Some information has just come to light about the Quardyngs of Esol that has made necessary some corrections in the previous article. Nothing major, but it does correct some obvious anomalies. In 1368 Sir John’s nephew Roger and other co-heirs offered “le manoir de Easole” to the Priory of Christ Church in Canterbury on the […]

The following pages 1-33 are copies taken from the minute book of the Nonington Parish Meeting, or Parish Council, which replaced the parish Vestry after the passing of the Local Government Act of 1894. Pages 27-31 are missing. Although various forms of local government existed in Saxon and Medieval times, the kind of local government […]

The origin of The Ash Path is to be found in the minutes of a Nonington Vestry meeting of 1883. From the Nonington Parish Vestry minutes:-March 13th 1883.”Mr. Plumptre proposes to give a public footpath from Hanging Hill gate (at the southern end of Nonington Cricket Ground) to the North Corner of North field which […]

The late Mr. Leonard E. Fox was Company Secretary of John Harvey (Nonington) Ltd. for many years, and the  following are  copies of some notes he made on the company in 1974 with a revision written in 1979.

The following have been revised- Nonington’s Various Windmills https://nonington.org.uk/the-windmills/akholte-ackholt-windmill-1309/ The Barson or Barfreston mills.   The Easole Corn Mill   The Easole Pug or Feed Mill.

https://nonington.org.uk/st-marys-church/ https://nonington.org.uk/the-old-manors-of-nonington/oesewalum-also-oeswalum-and-osuualun/

Nonington and The East Kent Volunteers