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Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking across a field and over the village towards the Isle of Thanet in the background.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Small housing estate to south of Fringlesham.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>A footpath leads from Broad Lane through a nursery and field towards the North Stream and then the A256 Sandwich Road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The sign design is a copy of a Saxon belt buckle found here. Two graves from a well-preserved sixth and seventh-century Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham have yielded a bronze pendant and a gilt buckle with designs that are related to each other and which are clearly symbolic of the cult of the god Woden. Commentary, and images of both objects, can be found in S. Chadwick Hawkes, "Finglesham. A Cemetery in East Kent" and "The Archaeology of Conversion: Cemeteries", both in Campbell, The Anglo-Saxons, pp. 24–25 and 48–49. Ref:- Wikipedia
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Dist:0.3km<br/>There is a small disused chapel at Finglesham, but most unusually for a village of this size, there is no church. The absence of a church has given rise to the following expression. 'Married at Finglesham Church':- To have engaged in casual sex together. Comment: "There is no church at Finglesham; but a chalk-pit celebrated for casual amours; of which kind of rencounters the saying is us'd." -- The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, compiled by William George Smith (1935):
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Broad Lane leads from Little Betteshanger towards the A258 London Road.
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