Category: Towns and Villages

Holy Cross Church Bearsted can be reached on the Bearsted Walk the Bearsted to Maidstone via Caring walk and the Bearsted to Detling walk.

 

This Church can be reached on the 10x service from Maidstone to Ashford. The bus takes a short detour off the A20 and stops north of the Village.

View of the North side

Dove cotes opposite the Church

Graffiti in the porch

Stoop in the porch

View from the south

Memorial

Rainwater Hopper

North Door and stoop

S Cresswell War Grave

South porch

Rainwater hopper dated 1833

Gravestone of Anna Snoath 1672

Here resteth the body of Anna the loving wife of William Snoath. She was a vertuous woman in her life and her dying words were Come Gow to meet with God and Saints. She departed this life July 12th 1672 aged 29 yeares and Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth the daughter of William Snoath. She dyed an infant November 2nd 1672.

North side

All Saints West Farlieigh


Main Door

Maidstone Baptist Church

All Saints Maidstone

St Mary’s Church East Farliegh

Plaxtol Parish Church can be reached on the Plaxtol to Tonbridge walk. The Church was open for visitors and supplied plastic overshoes for visitors with muddy boots. The Church was built in 1649 in the time of Cromwell and consequently does not have as much decoration as some churches, however it does have a special beauty in it’s simplicity.

Pulpit
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The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Tonbridge, can be reached on the Arriva no 7 bus from Maidstone or on the bus walk from Tonbridge to Five Oak Green. When I visited the church was open from 10am to 12 Monday to Friday.