Hersden

Hersden
Village entrance
Hersden Hersden shown within Kent
Population	6,257 (2001)^[1]
OS grid reference	TR204620
Civil parish	Sturry
District	City of Canterbury
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CANTERBURY
Postcode district	CT3
Dialling code	01227
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Canterbury
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Coordinates: 51°18′51″N 1°09′49″E / 51.3142°N 1.1637°E / 51.3142; 1.1637

Hersden is a village east of Canterbury in Kent, South East England. It is established as a planned coalmining village dating from the 1920s, on the A28 road between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. It lies in the civil parish of Sturry(where the population is included), bordering the parish of Westbere, and work in Kent Coalfield remained the main source of employment for the male residents of the village until the closure of the Kent colliery in the 1980s.

History

A 5th-6th century cemetery of Frisians and Jutes was discovered nearby in 1931.^[2]

Exploratory works for a Channel Tunnel at Shakespeare Cliff near Dover led to the identification of the Kent Coalfield in 1890. Its northern extension came after coal was discovered at Chislet in 1918.^[3] Initially the miners lived in Ramsgate but in 1924 the Chislet Colliery Housing Society was formed to build a mining village of 300 houses, which became Hersden.^[3] The mine closed in 1969^[3] but the Chislet Colliery Welfare Club remains.

Amenities

Now, there is a Chinese restaurant, the village hall which houses a social club and recently a large and impressive B.M.X track was built. There are two churches in Hersden; Hersden Church (a former Anglican and Methodist which now is used as a community centre - the congregation has moved to Sturry Church) and St Dunstan, the Roman Catholic Parish church which opened in 1935.

References

↑ National Statistics Census 2001
↑ Jessup, R. F. (April 1946). "An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Westbere, Kent". The Antiquaries Journal. 26 (1-2): 11–21. doi:10.1017/S0003581500018497.
1 2 3 http://www.dover.gov.uk/kentcoal/exhibition/chislet.asp

External links

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Sturry Parish Council

Towns and villages in the Canterbury district of Kent, England

	Adisham Barham Bekesbourne Beltinge Bishopsbourne Blean Boyden Gate Bramling Bridge Broad Oak Broomfield Chartham Chestfield Chislet Eddington Fordwich Grays Hackington Harbledown Hawthorn Corner Herne Herne Bay Hersden Hillborough Hoath Ickham Kingston Littlebourne Lower Hardres Marshside Nackington Patrixbourne Petham Pett Bottom Reculver Rough Common Stuppington Sturry Swalecliffe Tankerton Thanington Without Tyler Hill Upper Harbledown Upper Hardres Upstreet Waltham Westbere Whitstable Wickhambreaux Wincheap Womenswold Woolage Green Woolage Village Yorkletts

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