Ruckinge Millennium Sign

Image: © David Anstiss Taken: 21 Feb 2010

The second of two village signs in the village. This one is on the B2067 Bilsington Road at the junction of Marsh Road. In the background is the Blue Anchor Pub. The sign has a small information plaque below which reads 'RUCKINGE MILLENNIUM SIGN. The millennium sign incorporates many features to depict life in the village. For over 800 years the church has dominated the hamlet built above the old shoreline. The canal, dug in 1806 as a defence against Napoleon, separates the houses from Romney Marsh. The old mill was demolished in 1910. The wooden markerboard of the Ranlsey family grave represents the illegal activity of smuggling carried on throughout the centuries in the locality. The Ordnance Survey, founded in 1791, celebrated its 200th anniversary at Ruckinge. A time capsule was buried, south east of the church, at the point where General Roy created the first baseline of verification, for the purposes of triangulation, between Dymchurch and Ruckinge in 1787. The hiker is using one of the many footpaths that cross the Parish. Sheep were once an important part of the local economy. The frame was constructed from a local oak tree blown over in the great storm of 1987 which destroyed thousands of trees in Ruckinge.'

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