Lenham village square ? a typical timbered house
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Lenham village square ? a typical timbered house
Image: © D Gore Taken: Unknown
Lenham is a most attractive Kent village. It lies in the shadow of an escarpment rising 300 feet to the chalk Downs in the north, and has the source of the Great Stour river to the south watering its cornfields and orchards. “It has one of Kent’s lovely old squares … an ancient market place. A row of limes throws its shadow across the square on which timbered houses and quaint fronted shops look down.” (‘The King’s England’, Arthur Mee). For the history of the parish and its housing http://www.lenham.net/History/History%20of%20Housing%20in%20Lenham%20P2.htm . Also see the Gallery at: http://www.geograph.org.uk/gallery/trail_of_a_kentish_farming_family_9094 (background family story http://books.google.com/books?id=hrpS_YQ9FoAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=On+Kentish+Chalk )
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Image Location
Latitude
51.236873
Longitude
0.717212