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Eastchurch occurs as village on the Isle of Sheppey a mile east of Minster. When a village site says "... it has a history steeped in stories of piracy and smugglers." However it has very much supplementary.
A gatehouse is today completely that remains of Shurland Hall, attached by using several families including a Cheneys world health organization were on this button around 1274; & Sir John Stanley, world health organization was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in the 15th century. A gatehouse is okay, in the care of the National Trust.
Inside Hidden Kent by Alan Major (Countryside Books, 1994) there is a note from either a 1847 gazetteer that comments on the scarceness of freshwater which "makes the inhabitants very careful to preserve such falls from the clouds ..." & tells of spouts from either a church designed to fill big tubs about it in the god's acre.
A village is likewise linked to a early times of aviation, & around July, 1911, was the places of the Gordon Bennett Trophy air race: see a notes in the Isle of Sheppey article. When you took a Battle of Britain it was one of notable bases of the Polish Air Forces.
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