Village sign for Old Wives Lees
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Village sign for Old Wives Lees
Image: © Marathon Taken: 26 Jan 2023
There is a six-way junction at the centre of Old Wives Lees. The green in the middle of the junction sees the village sign with hops and farming featuring. The origin of the name of Old Wives Lees is not clear but in 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Old Wives Lees thus: "OLD-WIVES-LEES, or Oldwoods-Lees, a place in the N E of Kent; 4¼ miles S W of Canterbury. An annual race, on 19 May, by young maids and bachelors, was instituted here by Sir D. Digges of Chilham."
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Image Location
Latitude
51.255424
Longitude
0.967994