Newchurch, Kent Explained

Country:England
Static Image:Newchurch, Kent church.jpg
Static Image Width:110px
Static Image Caption:Newchurch Church's leaning tower
Coordinates:51.045°N 0.93°W
Official Name:Newchurch
Population:315
Population Ref:(2011)[1]
Shire District:Folkestone and Hythe
Shire County:Kent
Region:South East England
Constituency Westminster:Folkestone and Hythe
Post Town:Romney Marsh
Postcode District:TN29
Postcode Area:TN

Newchurch is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe District in Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, 3miles west of Dymchurch

During the Second World War it was home to an RAF airfield, RAF Newchurch, that operated Hawker Tempest fighter aircraft under Wing Commander Roland Beamont which participated in the defence of the UK against the German V-1 flying bomb offensive of 1944. A Chain Home coastal radar station was also located there.

The village's only pub, the Black Bull, owned at one time by Mackeson's Brewery and Shepherd Neame Brewery closed in 1995 and is now a private house.

The parish church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.[2] The ecclesiastical parish forms part of the Romney Deanery of the Maidstone archdeaconry of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Civil Parish population 2011. 5 October 2015.
  2. Web site: St Peter and St Paul church . 7 October 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080624075927/http://www.dymchurchchurch.org.uk/Newchurch.htm . 24 June 2008 . dead .