Ciddingstone Village in Kent
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One of the most beautiful and oldest villages in Kent
Chiddingstone Village in Kent is a street of mainly sixteenth and seventeenth century Tudor houses, facing a seventeenth century church and is very typical of the Kent style.
With half-timbered sides, gables and stone-hung red-tiled roofs and projecting upper storeys, Chiddingstone village has provided a setting for some well known films, including A Room with a View and Wind in the Willows.
The whole village is now owned by the National Trust, and visitors are free to wander along the street and enter buildings that now house the stores & post office and pub.
The stores & post office building is one of the oldest surviving rural shops in England and was mentioned in a deed that dates to 1453.
The pub building, originally known as Waterslip House, is mentioned in documents dating to 1420.
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Be aware that in this small village is a very popular primary school and needless to say it gets very busy at the usual drop off and pick up times.
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The cache is a 1 litre container, big enough for small and medium sized trackables.
To find the cache you will need to work out the following.
On the Church porch is a diamond shaped Sundial - The date is: 1B26
The Postbox opposite the lychgate has a unique number: TNF 2A3
Head East through the village until you get to the School. On the School Sign - The Head teacher is Rachel Streatfeild: 01892 87E33D
A little further up the road is another lychgate - Engraved on the other side: In Memoriam Sidney Streatfeild obiit JAN 10 1C24
N51°11. A B C E000°08. D E F
The cache is NOT in the Church Yard.