Site of St Lawrences church, church rd. Traditional Cache
Site of St Lawrences church, church rd.
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As you turn into Church Road , the fields straight in front in of you were once the site of medievial salt making works which are recorded in the Doomsday book, you can still see the bumps which are the result of the salt making procedure , these would have been much larger but modern day farming has flattened the ground over the decades. Salt making took place here from the 11th century (or maybe earlier) up to the 15th century.This area was once the tidal estuary of the River Rother and part of the old port of New Romney. From the cache site, look across the rd, you will see a stone wall with an arch in it, behind this wall was once the medieval St Lawrences church which was taken down when there was not enough congregation to support it. From here if you walk up towards St Nicholas church you will be walking along the medieval beach track,and New Romneys medieval fish quay where fish would have been landed and sold. you will pass the old school on the corner(opposite the church main door, and where the house next to it is , this was the site of the old workhouse. Here in 1885 an inmate of the workhouse Martha Southall who was thought to have died regained consciousness as her funeral was taking place, her coffin had almost reached the cemetery when knocking was heard from the coffin, the bearers dropped it which caused the coffin to break into bits and out stepped `the corpse`. Very indignant she walked back to the workhouse and resumed her work in the laundry, thereafter she used the lid of her coffin as an ironing board. Mary lived another fifty years before she died in 1935 aged 88 years. Turn into Church lane and follow the wall along the side of the churchgrounds, this was almost certainly a harbour wall and back in medieval times ships would have entered the port here and thrown their anchors over the wall to moor their vessels. Please note this is not on any property, so please do not disturb the nearby boulders.
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