Last update July  2009   Created by Tony Maple:  imlac2005@grapevine.com.au
•Wingham and Littlebourne are on the road to Sandwich four miles east of Canterbury. Set in pretty scenery and woodland, there are oast houses (for hop production), a water mill and a fully restored tithe barn. The Little Stour or “Nailbourne’ is an intermittent river that runs through the area.
•The 13th century church, St Vincent of Saragossa, is thought to have been founded by the monks of St Augustine's Abbey and contains an ancient wall painting depicting St Christopher, patron saint of travellers. It is also thought that the convent of St Augustine used Littlebourne for the plantation of vines.
•Ickham is five miles east of Canterbury, off the road to Sandwich. The name Ickham derives from the Saxon `yeok', a yoke of arable land. A typical peaceful Kentish village, it is centred around a single thoroughfare with many old and well preserved houses, with the 13th century Parish Church of St John the Evangelist in the midst.
East Kent, England
Typical Kentish countryside in Thomas’s time: sheep and plough-land under orchards