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! 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 […]

Some of the misadventures of Nonington’s own “Dad’s Army”