IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Green, WEST MALLING, ME19 5NL
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Green, ME19 5NL by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Listing (92 Images Found)
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The quintain on the village green at Offham
The quintain on the village green at Offham is a unique survival. The aim was to hit the right hand board with a lance and get the point in one of the holes without being hit by the weight to the left (usually a sandbag) as it swung round. An ability to duck quickly as well as agility were required. If the rider managed to break the board then he was regarded as the champion for the day.
The wording on the information plaque in the foreground explains this - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6518231
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Jun 2020
0.00 miles
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Quintain, Offham
Believed to be the last remaining example in the country.
The quintain is a wooden post around eight feet in height with a freely rotating arm on the top. One end of the arm is flat (the "eye"), with the other used to attach heavy objects such as a leather pack. In a sport dating back to possibly Roman times, a horseman would ride at the quintain at full pace with his lance extended to strike the flat end. Should he not be riding sufficiently quickly, the arm would swing around and the heavy object knock him off his horse.
Grade II listed and scheduled.
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 18 Jan 2021
0.01 miles
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The Offham quintain
The quintain on the village green at Offham is a unique survival. The aim was to hit the right hand board with a lance and get the point in one of the holes without being hit by the weight to the left (usually a sandbag) as it swung round. An ability to duck quickly as well as agility were required. If the rider managed to break the board then he was regarded as the champion for the day.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 6 Jul 2012
0.01 miles
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The Quintain, Offham, Kent
Standing on Offham village green is the Quintain. It was once used for the medieval sport of jousting.
Image: © Robert Edwards
Taken: 30 Mar 2006
0.01 miles
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The Quintain at Offham
On the Green, next to Teston Road, a Grade II listed monument and arguably the village's main claim to fame. The Quintain is widely used as the settlement's symbol on other signs etc. It was a supposedly a Roman invention, popular in Elizabethan times as a means of testing the agility of horsemen. They practised their skill by charging at the Quintain (or tilting post) with a lance, hitting the broad part of the cross-bar and dodging out of the way before the other end with its heavy weight hit them on the back of the head.
During the Second World War the Quintain was removed for safety as it could have assisted an invading army as a landmark. It was restored to its present place on 11 August 1945.
Image: © Paul Harrop
Taken: 8 Sep 2019
0.01 miles
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The quintain at Offham
The quintain on the village green at Offham is a unique survival. The aim was to hit the right hand board with a lance and get the point in one of the holes without being hit by the weight to the left (usually a sandbag) as it swung round. An ability to duck quickly as well as agility were required. If the rider managed to break the board then he was regarded as the champion for the day.
A nearby information plaque explains this - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6518231
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Jun 2020
0.01 miles
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Explanation of the quintain at Offham
This explains the quintain at Offham seen at https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6518228
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Jun 2020
0.01 miles
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The quintain at Offham
The quintain on the village green at Offham is a unique survival. The aim was to hit the right hand board with a lance and get the point in one of the holes without being hit by the weight to the left (usually a sandbag) as it swung round. An ability to duck quickly as well as agility were required. If the rider managed to break the board then he was regarded as the champion for the day.
A nearby information plaque explains this - see https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6518231
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 21 Jun 2020
0.01 miles