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Offline DaveTheTrain

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9691 on: February 29, 2024, 07:54:39 PM »
Aha,  Bifrons Road, Just off the A2, seen it many times on the way to the Zoo.   It can catch you out!!!
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9690 on: February 29, 2024, 09:52:50 AM »
Clue................CT postcode area.

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« Reply #9689 on: February 28, 2024, 11:55:03 AM »
That was my journey to work for around 25 years.  A regular scene was a car buried in the trees.  I'll hold for now - wouldn't be a guess.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9688 on: February 28, 2024, 10:15:40 AM »
I was only there the other day, so I’ll hold fire for now….
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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9687 on: February 28, 2024, 09:05:31 AM »
Thanks Beachbum and MartinR for the extra info.

Next one shouldn't last long. Where is this "T" junction that many people have gone straight ahead to their regret.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9686 on: February 27, 2024, 08:37:56 PM »
That "Divine Retreat Centre" piece is being a bit naughty.  "Christian faith was preached in Britain for the first time on the blessed shores of Kent by St. Augustine" is just not true.  Christianity arrived on these shores during the Roman occupation, either quietly before Constantine or officially thereafter (see the chapel at Lullingstone Roman Villa, 4thC).  Now it could be argued that this was the was the British, not the English.  However even that claim is a little difficult.  In Northumbria the Christian tradition remained alongside the incoming Anglo-Saxon paganism which, in part, explains the relative ease of Paulinus' conversion of the area compared to the Augustinian attempts in Kent and the south.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9685 on: February 27, 2024, 07:58:25 PM »

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9684 on: February 27, 2024, 07:53:46 PM »
You have it grandarog, so much history on this complex. This part now operating as a Retreat

https://www.divineuk.org/ramsgate/

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9683 on: February 27, 2024, 11:01:04 AM »
Searching "Abbeys+East Kent" on Google tells me your clue picture is of St Augustin's Abbey ,Ramsgate. :)

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9682 on: February 26, 2024, 07:51:27 PM »
Coastal in East Kent

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9681 on: February 26, 2024, 07:00:03 PM »
Can you give a clue where we should be looking please.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9680 on: February 26, 2024, 06:01:17 PM »
I've found your GTP, Beachbum but as I've had a few lately, I'll hold fire unless it drags on.

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9679 on: February 25, 2024, 08:49:52 PM »
More information of the listed buildings and scheduled monument within the prison complex.
  • Medieval moated site: scheduled monument.  List number 10130811
  • Pig styes and gate pier about 4 metres east of item 5/60: grade II.  List number 10609222
  • Garden wall about 4½ metres north of stockyard: grade II.  List number 13442683
  • East half of stockyard: grade II.  List number 10685684
  • Deerhouse about 8 metres south of stockyard: grade II.  List number 13565515
  • West half of stockyard: grade II.  List number 10609216
  • Former riding school and prospect tower: grade II.  List number 10843527
  • Outbuilding about 7 metres south of East Sutton Park: grade II.  List number 13443068
I've not given location information.  Grid references are available from the listings as is a map, however I doubt that the prison service would welcome unannounced visitors!

1https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1013081?section=official-list-entry
2https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1060922?section=official-list-entry
3https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1344268?section=official-list-entry
4https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1068568?section=official-list-entry
5https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1356551?section=official-list-entry
6https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1060921?section=official-list-entry
7https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084352?section=official-list-entry
8https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1344306?section=official-list-entry

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9678 on: February 25, 2024, 07:45:03 PM »
Thanks for the East Sutton Park info MartinR 8)

You are both right so far

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #9677 on: February 25, 2024, 03:23:15 PM »
That pat of East Sutton Park Prison is a grade II listed building number 1084345, URL: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1084345?section=official-list-entry  there appear to be other listings within the prison complex, but I haven't chased them up.

Location information:
  • Nat Grid:                    TQ 82780 49478
  • Nearest Post Code:   ME17 3DF
  • Co-ords (WGS84):     51°12'55"N,000°36'56"E or 51.21525,0.61569