Birchington woodland
Who left their name in the wood?
A small wood. A farmer whose first name is missing.
The reading room
Turn a page.
Follow a thread.
A woman in a land record. A family remembered from Kent to Calcutta. A film household. Begin with the story that catches your eye.
01 / Birchington
Who left their name in the wood?
Follow the story ↗02 / Margate Road
Would you like history with your chips?
Follow the story ↗03 / Hoath
His name. Her pasture.
Follow the story ↗04 / Selling
The village that disputed its name
Follow the story ↗↗
Birchington farms
Would you like history with your chips?
A fish-and-chip shop helps locate a vanished farm.
Selling place names
The village that disputed its name
The map said Neames Forstal. Locals said otherwise.
West Brabourne map names
Please put my house name back
An owner wrote to Ordnance Survey about two words.
Ash working lives
A cow for Cristine. Gravel for the road.
John Neme’s will had the everyday things covered.
Selling & local life
He gave silver. They gave glass.
Selling parish remembered a churchwarden in a window.
Military lives
Start with the man under fire
A Victoria Cross citation leads into one Philip Neame’s life.