Horsmonden Timeline
Significant events in Horsmonden’s history
The following events have been chosen as being relevant in Horsmonden’s history.
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PERIOD
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1066
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NORMAN
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1154
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PALANTAGENETS
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1200
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1260
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Work starts on St. Margaret’s Church
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1300
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1311
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Henry de Grofhurst becomes second rector of St. Margaret’s. He remains so until 1361
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1349
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The Black Death
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1361
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Henry de Grofhurst dies
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1380
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Richard, Lord Poynings marries Isabel, the daughter and heiress of Robert, Lord Fitzpayne. It was in perhaps celebration of this that St. Margaret’s tower was built
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1399
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LANCASTRIANS
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1400
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1455
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Bishop summons everyone ‘resident in the Parish or an outsider, holding land or possesion in the Parish’ to a meeting concerning the repair of the south side of St. Margaret’s | |
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1461
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YORKISTS
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1462
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John Bobbe becomes Rector. He remains so until 1484 | |
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1485
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TUDORS
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1500
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1514
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Thomas Bartell listed as owning the foundry at Furnace Pond | |
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1558
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TUDORS
ELIZABETHAN |
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1561
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Rood screens in St. Margaret’s destroyed due to law by Elizabeth I | |
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1600
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1603
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STUARTS
JACOBEAN |
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1605
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April 7th: Simon Willard (founder of the City of Concord, Massachusetts) was baptised November 5th: Discovery of the Gunpowder Plot |
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1615
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John Browne becomes the first holder of the post of King’s Gunfounder | |
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1619
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John Browne is said to employ 200 people in and around his Furnace Pond foundry | |
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1641
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English Civil War 1641-1651. More… | |
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1649
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30 January: King Charles I beheaded |
COMMONWEALTH
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1651
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June 8th: John Browne dies
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1660
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STUARTS
RESTORATION |
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1673
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Stephen Bate becomes Rector | |
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1685
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Horsmonden Foundry closes | |
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1700
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Stephen Bate raises £1,000 for repairs the north side, aisle, vestry and chancel doorway of St. Margaret’s
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1702
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STUARTS
ANNE |
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1714
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HANOVERIAN
GEORGIAN |
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1724
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William Hassell become Rector | |
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1785
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Dr. James Marriott become Rector | |
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1800
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1805
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October 21st: The Battle of Trafalgar | |
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1810
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HANOVERIAN
REGENCY |
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1818
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December 18th: William Moon, developer of the Moon System of reading by touch and pioneer of blind welfare is born in Horsmonden. More… | |
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1823
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John Read, inventor of the stomach pump, shows his contraption to the Royal Society. More…
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1835
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Henry Foord founds the Horsmonden Benefit Society
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1837
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HANOVERIAN
VICTORIAN |
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1845
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William Moon develops the Moon System of reading by touch. More… | |
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1847
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John Read dies | |
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1855
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Heath House School is founded
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1860
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John Francis Austin builds Capel Manor
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1861
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Fuggle Hops discovered: Seedling found in the hop yard of George Stace at Horsmonden and introduced by Richard Fuggle of Benchley in 1875
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1867
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Hugh Marriott becomes Rector
Restoration of St. Margaret’s Church |
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1890
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“Heathleigh” school for girls is founded
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1892
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September 12th: Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Line (Hawkhurst Branch Line) opens
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1894
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William Moon dies. | |
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1898
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May 28th: Rudyard Kipling contribution to Horsmonden School Budget containing six ‘Hints on Schoolboy Etiquette’ published. | |
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1900
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1901
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EDWARDIAN
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1910
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WINDSOR
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1921
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Simon Willard’s descendants donate a new stained glass window for the west end of St. Margaret’s | |
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1939
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September 1st: A group of evacuees arrived in Horsmonden from the Burrage Grove School in Woolwich | |
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1940
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August 18th: Battle of Britain ace F/L Bob Stanford Tuck’s Spitfire I (N3040) crashes near Sprivers. See fragments at the Highwayman. | |
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1944
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Feb 11th: USAF Flying Fortress B-17 42-39810 Big-A Bird 358BS (VK-E) crash lands at August Pitts farm with one fatality.
July 3rd: While on V-1 patrol, F/L William Lister (Dusty) Miller parachutes into a Horsmonden farm after ditching his Hawker Tempest V (SA-Z) fragments of which are displayed in a local museum. A V-1 flying bomb lands in north east side of St. Margaret’s churchyard destroying all the windows on that side |
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1946
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Rosemary Everett nee Smith-Marriott designs and installs a new stained glass east window in St. Margaret’s church | |
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1948
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Rosemary Everett nee Smith-Marriott designs and installs a new stained glass west window in St. Margaret’s church | |
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1955
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The ring of six bells at St. Margaret’s is increased to eight | |
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1961
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June 10th: Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Line (Hawkhurst Branch Line) closes
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1966
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Capel Manor is demolished
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1967
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Anthony Cronk publishes “St. Margret’s Church, Horsmonden” | |
| 1970 | Closure of All Saint’s, Maidstone Road, as Chapel of Rest | |
| 1971 | Feb: David Morgan retires as leader of 30-strong choir | |
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1975
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Anthony Cronk publishes “A Wealden Rector” | |
| 1987 | Oct: The Great Storm | |
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1998
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A tenor bell, known as the “Willard Bell” is installed in St. Margaret’s |