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Smiths Orchard, SITTINGBOURNE, ME9 8DS

The plaque explains that the Jubilee Garden was created in 2012 by the villagers of Bredgar to honour the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. It is next to the footpath from Silver Street to The Street and St John the Baptist Church.

This is at Silver Street, which is part of Bredgar.

I was puzzled by this building, one of just a few weather-boarded dwellings in this village and those nearby. Later, looking at the photo I'd taken, I noticed the tall windows facing the street, and the regular layout of the end elevation. Tall windows might suggest that the building started off as a school - or, if north-facing, use as an artist's studio. But in this case I suspect that the name Wesley Cottage gives a hefty clue - this must have been a Methodist chapel. As it happens, I'd Geographed something quite similar just a few weeks earlier: Image - not so many miles away. But I was weary as I walked along Silver Street - I'd been up at 5am and spent seven very warm hours tramping around Sheppey on the day of the Swale Barge Match. The penny didn't drop.

Grade II listed.

Holly Cottage is well-named in view of the large holly tree in front of it which was full of berries when this photograph was taken.

The Chantry was founded in 1392. A History of the County of Kent says "Richard II on 19 July, 1392, granted licence for Master Robert de Bradegare and others to found at Bredgar a college of one chaplain and two clerk scholars who should serve God and celebrate divine service in the parish church of Bredgar at all times except when the said scholars were busy with their studies." The college succumbed to the dissolution of the monasteries in 1542. In the first half of the 20th century it was inhabited as four cottages but has been a single private dwelling since the 1950s. Chantry House is a grade II* listed building https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1069369

With cricket pavilion recently painted green to comply with some new directive.