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Back to Site 4 Back to Index FAVERSHAM A TO Z GUIDE LOCAL HISTORY INDEX Index LOOKING BACK - A BRIEF LOCAL HISTORY A fascinating insight into how the area has evolved - (thanks to Wikipedia) Also surviving is the Abbey Guest House, on the east side of the Outer SPONSORS Gateway of the Abbey; now known Sponsors as Arden’s House. This house, now a private residence in Abbey Street, was the location of the infamous murder of Thomas Arden in 1551. Globe House opposite is thought to have been the Abbey steward’s home. The Faversham Almshouses were founded and endowed by Thomas Mendfield Local History in 1614 and exist to this day. HISTORY

Kent is the centre of hop-growing in England and Faversham has been the home of several breweries. The Shepherd Neame Brewery was so that the manor of Faversham officially founded in 1698, though Faversham was established as could form part of the endowment of brewing activities in Faversham pre- a settlement before the Roman Faversham Abbey. date this. The brewery claims to be conquest. There was extensive Stephen established the abbey in the oldest in Britain and continues to 1148, and is buried there with his be family-owned. The Rigden brewery A TO Z Roman settlement in Kent, with consort Matilda of Boulogne, and his was founded in the early 18th century A to Z traffic through the Saxon Shore son, Eustace, the Earl of Boulogne. by Edward Rigden. It subsequently ports of Reculver, Richborough, During Stephen’s reign, Faversham merged with the Canterbury based Dover and Lympne converging was a very important settlement. King George Beer in 1922 to become John tried to give the church to Simon George Beer & Rigden before being on Canterbury before heading of Wells in 1201, but the church was purchased by the Maidstone based up Watling Street to London. owned by the monks of St Augustine’s Fremlins. Whitbread bought out Abbey at Canterbury, who appealed to Fremlins in 1967, and closed the Local Adverts

Remains of a 2,000-year- LOCAL FIRMS old Roman theatre, able to Rome and kept Simon from receiving Faversham brewery in 1990. The site the church. Sir Thomas Culpeper was is now a Tesco superstore. The years accommodate some 12,000 granted Faversham Abbey by Henry during the First World War saw an people, have been discovered VIII of England during the Dissolution uncertain time for the breweries. at Faversham. The cockpit- of the Monasteries about 1536. In the first instance, the scarcity of style outdoor auditorium, the The abbey was demolished directly labour soon became evident from after the dissolution and much of its 1915, as a number of employees first of its kind found in Britain, masonry taken to Calais to reinforce turned to offers of higher wages was a style the Romans used that town’s defences against French

elsewhere, including the local Useful Numbers elsewhere in their empire on interests. In 1539, the ground upon ammunitions works. KEY NUMBERS the Continent. which the abbey had stood, along with nearby land, passed to Sir For more information, visit; http:// Thomas Cheney, Lord Warden of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faversham Faversham was probably the summer Cinque Ports. capital of the Saxon kings of Kent. It Among the few surviving buildings of (Photo: Ron Strutt) was held in royal demesne in 811, and Faversham Abbey are the two Barns is further cited in a charter granted at Abbey Farm. The smaller (Minor) by Kenulf, the King of Mercia. It was Barn dates from 1425 and the larger recorded in the Domesday Book as (Major) Barn dates from 1476. In

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the farmyard of which they form ADD ENTRY as Terra Regis, meaning it was part part there are other listed buildings, of the ancient royal estates. King including Abbey Farmhouse, part of Stephen gave it to his chief lieutenant, which dates from the 14th century, William of Ypres, but soon made him and a small building which is thought swap it with Lillechurch (now Higham) to have been the Abbot’s stable.

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