Crundale, Kent

Crundale is a mostly rural village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent in southeast England. The village covers a section of one of the dual escarpments of the North Downs at this point, about halfway between Ashford and Canterbury.

Crundale
Crundale is located in Kent
Crundale
Crundale
Location within Kent
Area6.39 km2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population186 (Civil Parish 2011)[1]
• Density29/km2 (75/sq mi)
OS grid referenceTR076493
Civil parish
  • Crundale
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townCANTERBURY
Postcode districtCT4
Dialling code01227
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament

Geography

About a quarter of the village is woodland, and barring its western side which slopes steeply to the Great Stour, which is at 92 feet (28 metres) above sea level, most of the rest of its land is at more than 260 feet (79 metres) above Ordnance Datum.

Amenities

The community living in the civil parish is relatively small - many of its activities are shared with the neighbouring parish of Godmersham.

History

An early Anglo-Saxon gold buckle and other princely items from a grave dating from the mid-7th century were found in the Crundale Downs in 1861 and are now in the British Museum.[2] The intricately designed object is notable for the representation of a three dimensional appliqué fish.

The early Norman parish church is dedicated to St Mary the Blessed Virgin and is a building listed in the highest category of the national system, at Grade I.[3] It is on the escarpment of the Crundale Downs, a less eroded top layer of the escarpment, making it higher, about half a mile southeast of the village mainstay which is made up of dual clusters very close to each other and connected by road and by separate footpath.[4] The tombs of Juliana Hervey and Reverend Francis Paine are separately listed.

Recreation

A national trail footpath runs north–south through the civil parish, linking to Canterbury and to Ashford.[4]

References
  1. Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density United Kingdom Census 2011 Office for National Statistics Retrieved 10 May 2014
  2. British Museum Collection
  3. Church to St Mary Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1299607)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
  4. Outline civil parish map Neighbourhood Statistics. The Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 12 May 2013.

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