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Woodnesborough
St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Woodnesborough
Woodnesborough Location within Kent
Population	1,066 (2011 census)[1]
OS grid reference	TR310568
District	Dover
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sandwich
Postcode district	CT13
Dialling code	01304
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	South Thanet
List of places UK England Kent 51°15′49″N 1°18′36″E / 51.2636°N 1.3100°E / 51.2636; 1.3100

Woodnesborough (/ˈwɪnzbrə/ WINZ-brə) is a village in the Dover District of Kent, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Sandwich. The population taken at the 2011 census included Coombe as well as Marshborough, and totalled 1,066.^[1] There is a Grade II* listed^[2] Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.

History

Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Golles-Wanesberge, with forms like Wodnesbeorge being attested a little later, around 1100, and as 'Wodnesbergh' in 1484.^[3] The name is believed to have meant Woden's hill/mound (Old English Wōdnes burh) after Anglo-Saxon god Woden (the English cognate of the Norse Odin, known in Proto-Germanic as Wodanaz); though some of the spellings also suggest *wænnes beorg ('hill of the mound'),^{[citation needed]} from Old English wenn, wænn 'a tumour, blister, mound'. At the end of the eighteenth century there is a record of a burial mound beside the church, but the settlement also boasts a hill which could equally well have been described as a burh in Old English.^[4]

The village was once served by East Kent Light Railway and can now be reached by bus services from Sandwich.

There was also a post office, which closed at the end of January 2008.

Listed buildings

St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church: the village's 13th-century Anglican church is Grade II* listed, with 14th-century alterations and a Victorian restoration in 1884 by Ewan Christian. The building is made of flint and rubble and boasts an unusual ogee cupola, a design feature shared by nearby Sandwich's St Peter's Church.^[5]

Woodnesborough Village Hall: the building, a former school, dates from the 19th century.^[6]

Sundial north of the Church of St Mary the Virgin: dating from 1738 with the inscription "Woodnesborough W IB RG 1738".^[7]

Tomb Chest to Harrison family: situated about 2 metres W of Church of St Mary, and dating from 1777.^[8]

Summerfield House: an early 18th-century house with red brick and plain tiled roof.^[9]

Barn about 20m E of Summerfield House: a 17th-century barn now converted to a garage.^[10]

References

External links

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