Category: General history of industry and commerce

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 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.

Nonington and The East Kent Volunteers

Nonington and the coming of the railways, the page has been revised. Nonington and the coming of the railways

All four pages of The Ale Houses of Nonington have been revised: The White Horse, later The Hawks Head, in Church Street, Nonington. https://nonington.org.uk/the-ale-houses/the-redd-lyon-later-the-phoenix-at-frogha/ https://nonington.org.uk/the-ale-houses/the-royal-oak-the-drove-in-holt-street/ The Walnut Tree in Holt Street, Nonington

The following article is in brief the parts played in the Kent Rebellion, a precursor to the short lived Second English Civil War of 1648, by those with connections to Nonington. For further information and updates go to the illustrated main article The rebellion had its origins in part in the Canterbury riots of Christmas […]

The 1859 Nonington tithe map was drawn from an actual survey and is therefore very accurate. It’s worth noting that the names of fields and woods often changed in the twenty years between the maps, and are different to the present, which can make research very confusing. The following are photographs of parts of the actual tithe […]

The Easole and Holt Street galleries have been updated with additional photographs and information.

The article on the  Manor of Ratling has been updated with new information and pictures. The following galleries have also been updated: Fredville House St Alban’s Court Old House St. Alban’s Court New House  

The British Legion was founded in 1921 as a voice for the ex-Service community as a merger of four organisations: the Comrades of the Great War, the National Association of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, the National Federation of Discharged and Demobilized Sailors and Soldiers, and the Officers’ Association. The following photos are believed to have […]