View from St James' Churchyard, Cooling
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View from St James' Churchyard, Cooling
Image: © Marathon Taken: 17 Oct 2016
St James Church at Cooling is one of the churches which it is thought featured in the opening scenes of Great Expectations (St Mary's at Higham is the other). See more at: http://www.coolingchurch.org.uk/page9.htm This is the view that Dickens would have seen from the churchyard looking across the marshes but it is of course much changed and it needs a little imagination when one thinks of the opening scene of the David Lean film. St James Church is now looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust - see http://www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches/Completelistofchurches/St-James-Church-Cooling-Kent/
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Image Location
Latitude
51.455398
Longitude
0.525471