Monks Horton Explained

Monks Horton is a small civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. It is located 3miles north of Hythe. Within the civil parish are the hamlets of Horton and Broad Street. The parish is governed by a parish meeting, rather than a parish council, because of its small size. The name comes from there having been a medieval priory built here.^[1] The population of the parish in 2001 was 95.^[2]

In popular culture

Author Russell Hoban repurposes Monks Horton as "Monkeys Whoar Town" in his 1980, post apocalyptic novel Riddley Walker.^[3]

References

51.1203°N 1.0208°W

Notes and References

1. 'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Monkshorton', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Kent, Vol. 2 (VCH, London 1926), pp. 151-153 (British History Online accessed 23 October 2017).
2. [United Kingdom Census 2001|2001 Census]
3. Web site: Places - Riddley Walker Annotations. Errorbar. 21 August 2022. 29 July 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210729025537/http://www.errorbar.net/rw/Places. live.