According to Edward Hasted, in 1798, the manor of Warde, was within the hundred of Teynham. It had sixteen houses, and about 60 or 70 inhabitants.
Although small, Iwade has a primary school, nursery, health centre, village hall, public house and post office and village shop. The village church is dedicated to All Saints and is a Grade I Listed Building. It is within the diocese of Canterbury, and deanery of Sittingborne.
The village also features the Sittingbourne Speedway track, which offers speedway training facilities for riders all over the country. It was the base of the speedway team Sittingbourne Crusaders who raced in the Conference League sporadically from 1995 until 2008.
In 2014, during the development of new homes, a Henge was discovered.
In February 2016 the village council erected its flag pole on the mound, as you enter the village which you can see from the village sign.
The Cache
You will need visit the village sign and from here you will be able to find out the answers to the following question.
Ted ABCDEFGH donated this sign in JKLM to the memory of his wife Joy ABCDEFGH 19N4-PQRS
Cache can be found at
N51 (C+H).(G-F)A(N+P+M)
E0 (C+D+B-H).(J+M)(K+L+Q+R+E)S
The cache is just a short walk away.
If anybody would like to expand the Village Sign Series, please do. I would ask that you request a number for your cache first at www.villagesignseries.co.uk so we can keep track of the Village Sign numbers and names to avoid duplication.