Directory of Gosmere Blogs and Bloggers

An occasional and occasionaly irreverant view of life in Smarden

various blogs, on local news, events and businesses in and around maidstone

An occasionally truthful but mostly scurrilous comment on life in and around The County Town.

Kella's Creative Wishes is a UK Blogshop based in Maidstone, Kent selling custom handmade jewellery, greeting cards, paper crafted items and other handcrafted keepsakes.

At Kella's Creative Wishes you are sure to find something for every occasion and person. I use all manner of items to create my 'wishes', from found, reclaimed items to brand new bought raw crafting products. Ensuring the pieces you purchase from me are unique or of limited edition.

Welcome To Temple Ewell Blog - Air your views, raise issues, publicise events for village awareness.

Regular posts on cats & dogs and anything pet related. Plus updates on our range of dog beds and cat beds. All from Cats & Canines based in Rochester, Kent.

Observations on the incidence of psychological violence ('abuse') at both the individual and also the group level; the internal psychology of the abusive personality.

My goal is to urge the 10,000 people in the Southend area who voted UKIP at the last European Election to encourage another 10,000 to join them this June. This blog will keep you up to date with UKIP activity in and around Southend-on-Sea.

Is there anyone out there in the Gravesend, Cobham, Cuxton, Sole Street, Harvel, Great Buckland or Meopham who knows anything of the history of a small isolated cottage on Cutteridge Lane quite near The Golden Lion Inn at Luddesdown that is today called Cutteridge Cottage?
My knowledge of the place dates from the late forties, when I lived in Sole Street where I was born. It was then inhabited by an elderly gamekeeper who I think worked for the Darnley Estate, by the mid fifties it had fallen into a ruin and remained partly fallen down and used as a free range chicken house, until it was bought I was told, by a man who lived in Gravesend in the mid nineteen sixties who began to rebuild it.
When it was finished he was not to live in it for long before there was a fire there, the cottage was seriously damaged and the man became ill, apparently dying in Gravesend Hospital in the late sixties. For a couple of decades the cottage remained a ruin until someone began to rebuild it on quite a grand scale in the mid eighties, extending it and making it double storied.
I moved from the area to Shropshire in the early nineties and when I revisited the cottage, now named Cutteridge Cottage in the late nineties it was finished, but appeared to be once again abandoned and though part furnished, was becoming severely overgrown. Reference to Google Earth Maps appears to confirm that Cutteridge Cottage is still abandoned and it looks as if it is now an almost completely overgrown ruin.
I would be most interested to hear from anyone who has any genuine information about this property.
Honker 785.