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Following the Black Death, the village was abandoned, and the church stood empty for centuries. In 1990 Doug Chapman, a chartered surveyor who had worked at Canterbury Cathedral, purchased the church and began restoring the building, originally with the intention of turning it into a weekend home. Since 1999 it has been licensed as a civil wedding venue.

Holly Hill is a peak and woodland located in the Kent Downs Area of Natural Beauty. The area affords some wonderful uninterrupted views across the county and hosts an array of beautiful flora including oak, chestnut, wildflowers, and fungi. There is a great diversity of animal and bird species too, including the wonderful Nightingale and woodpecker.

The Machine Shop is a former dry dock slip-cover originally built in the mid 1840s by Fox Henderson & Co. for the Woolwich Dockyard and is believed to be the earliest surviving metal-framed slipcover in existence. Following the dockyard's closure in 1865, it was deconstructed and rebuilt at Chatham where it came to be used as a machine shop

A lovely brick-built pumphouse originally for the docks. Now a restaurant and distillery, there are distillery tours which you have to book. The interior looks stunning, I will plan a trip down here when I am not in my muddy walking gear.

Google this after seeing it on the wall during my walk, sad story of a bus running into a groud of cadets walking to an event in the dock yards.

No2 Basin Chatham Dockside