English Heritage sites near Paddlesworth Parish
ST JOHN'S COMMANDERY
3 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
The flint-walled 13th-century chapel and hall of a 'Commandery' of Knights Hospitallers, later converted into a farmhouse.
WESTERN HEIGHTS, DOVER
7 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
A huge fortification begun during the Napoleonic Wars and completed in the 1860s, designed to protect Dover from French invasion. Only the moat can be visited.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR CHURCH, DOVER
7 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
The foundations of a small medieval church, traditionally said to have been the site of King John's submission to the Papal Legate in 1213.
DOVER CASTLE
8 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
High atop the iconic White Cliffs of Dover sits the most iconic of all English fortresses. From the mighty medieval keep to the labyrinth of secret wartime tunnels below, a family day out at Dover towers above all others.
DYMCHURCH MARTELLO TOWER
9 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
This is one of a chain of ingeniously designed artillery towers built around the south and east coasts of England from 1805 to protect against the threat of invasion by Napoleon.
ST AUGUSTINE'S CONDUIT HOUSE
12 miles from Paddlesworth Parish
The Conduit House is part of the monastic waterworks which supplied nearby St Augustine's Abbey.
Churches in Paddlesworth Parish
St Oswald's
Opposite the Cat and Custard Pot,
Paddlesworth
Folkestone
07985025381
http://www.elhamvalleygroupofchurches.co.uk
The Highest Ground,
The Lowest Steeple,
The Poorest Parish,
The Fewest People.
Although the present church seems to date from early Norman times, indications of an earlier structure were discovered during reparations carried out in 1870. It is not improbable that the original church owed its foundations to St. Ethelburga, the foundress and first abbess, of the neighbouring Nunnery of Lyminge, whose name seems to be still preserved in “Tata’s Lees” - the hill between Lyminge and Paddlesworth. Bede states that Ethelburga was “otherwise called Tate”.
The Church which is built of large flints, with dressings of Caen stone at the angles, windows, doors, etc., consists of a small nave measuring externally 40 feet by 23 feet, with a chancel measuring 16 feet by 15 feet.
Our Patron Saint was King Oswald of Northumbria. Older Brother of Ethelburgas son-in-law, Oswy. Oswald had continued the work of spreading Christianity to the Northumbrians which Ethelburga had started along with St. Paulinus when she became Queen of Northumbria on her marriage to King Edwin.
Pubs in Paddlesworth Parish
Cat & Custard Pot
A friendly local pub located in a small hamlet situated on an ancient trackway, whose name derives from Saxon origins and means 'Paeddel's Enclosure'.
This local public house was a regular for Battle of Britain pilots based at Hawkinge and...