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 […]
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Some Historical Notes and Musings on the Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Nonington
Some Historical Notes and Musings on the Church of St. Mary the Virgin at Nonington. In Anglo-Saxon times. St. Mary’s Church appears to have been built in a settlement on an estate at Oeswalum [also: Oesuualun] co-owned by Earl Aldberht [also: Ealdbeorht, Ealdberht], and his sister Selethryth [also: Seleðryth, Seleðryð], who believed to have been […]
Nonnington via Sandwich to London by sea, a weekly service!
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 […]
The lost manor of Shrynkelyng’ in Nonington & Eastry
The north-eastern corner of the parish of Nonington is separated from the parish of Eastry by Thornton Road and across the road just inside the parish of Eastry is Shingleton Farm. Just to the north of the farm house is an area of woodland known as Shingleton Wood which contains the remains of the ancient […]
Mount Ephraim in Nonington.
In its extreme northern corner the old parish of Nonington was bounded by the parish of Goodnestone to the west and to the east by the parish of Chillenden, which was absorbed into the parish of Goodnestone in 1935. This corner is still a part of the present parish of Nonington and here, in the […]
1863 & 1873: Diversion of footpaths at St. Alban’s Court in Nonington
Parish vestries were the predecessors of parish councils but had much more authority over parish affairs and finances. Nonington Parish Council held its inaugural meeting on 4th December, 1894.At a Nonington Vestry meeting in early 1863 Mr William Oxenden Hammond of St. Alban’s Court in the parish of Nonington requested: “to divert a certain footpath […]
The Quakers in Nonington
The Religious Society of Friends, better known as “Quakers”, were founded in the North of England in the mid-17th century by George Fox, their name possibly originates from Fox telling a magistrate he was appearing before “to tremble (or ‘quake’) at the name of God”.During the Commonwealth under the leadership of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and […]
