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Eythorne is a civil parish and small village of about 1,000 homes, located 7.3 miles NNW of Dover in Kent. There are currently about 2,500 residents. Although not classed as one of the former pit villages of Kent, it was however situated approximately one mile from Tilmanstone - which closed in 1986. Today many of its residents commute to work in Dover (Docks), or in Canterbury.
There are regular buses to Dover and Canterbury which is about 13 miles away, there is also a train station 3 miles away at the nearby village of Shepherdswell where trains operate between Dover and London to both St Pancras and Victoria stations via Canterbury.
Eythorne Baptist Church is more than 450 years old and one of the first Baptist churches in the UK. Esther Copley, wife of William Copley, who was minister in Eythorne from about 1839 to 1843, was a prolific and successful writer of children's books and books on domestic economy. She died in the village in 1851.
The village is on the East Kent Railway, a heritage railway.
Eythorne once had three pubs, The Crown is still trading, however the White Horse and the Palm Tree are long closed, both now being residential properties.
Eythorne is in historically set in two halves, Lower Eythorne where the Church of England and Roman Catholic churches are situated, and Upper Eythorne which is where the village shop and the Crown public house are located, this is also where most of today's villagers live. Many reside in the small housing developments that sprang up in the late 1960s and early '70s.
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- A vicar at St Laurence and later Eastry.
From Jackson's Oxford Journal dated Saturday, August 4th, 1821; Issue 3563. DIED At his house, No 1, Chapel-place, RAMSGATE, aged 86 years, the Rev. Richard HARVEY, A.M. one of the six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral, Vicar of EASTRY and WORTH, and late Vicar of ST LAURENCE in THANET.
"Being second cousin to Mrs. Harvey, mother of Mr. Harvey (Vicar of Eastry, and late Vicar of St. Laurence, which, by permission, he resigned in favour of his son, though he continues to officiate in the new chapel at Ramsgate,) he apprised me of her death on Monday, 14th of January, in the eighty-third year of her age; and he also adverted to the death of his father on the 20th of February last, in his 84th year (see Obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine for March, p. 260), with this somewhat remarkable circumstance, that he deceased on the anniversary of his wedding-day, having lived with his wife in the utmost harmony and affection sixty-four years complete. My friend Harvey, who was, you will recollect, a Benedictine, is the only clergyman named as a Commissioner for the redemption of the land tax in the county of Kent; and, as it may be inferred that the appointment had the concurrence of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, to whom Mr. Harvey must have been intro
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