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0.480010</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Eccles</b> is a village in the <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> county of <a href="/wiki/Kent" title="Kent">Kent</a>, part of the parish of <a href="/wiki/Aylesford" title="Aylesford">Aylesford</a> and in the valley of the <a href="/wiki/River_Medway" title="River Medway">River Medway</a>. </p><meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Archaeology">Archaeology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Archaeology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It is near to the site of <a href="/wiki/Eccles_Roman_Villa" title="Eccles Roman Villa">a Roman villa estate</a> and pottery kiln, excavated between 1962 and 1976. The site was occupied from a decade or so after the Roman invasion up until the end of Roman Rule.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The villa underwent at least four main phases of construction. There is possible evidence of a military influence in the initial period<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and latterly it comprised 37 rooms or more. It was preceded by an earlier development represented by a small, rectangular granary and an associated length of boundary wall, dating to AD 55-AD 65. The discovery of large-scale pottery manufacture in the immediate post-conquest era suggests the likelihood of industrial installations such as workshops, stores and wharves along the Medway.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The villa has been described as a particularly large and grand example of its kind and one of the most important villas in Britain from several points of view.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Situated beneath and around the villa are traces of an earlier, Iron Age farmstead, represented by a group of linear boundary ditches and pits.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A large Saxon cemetery was discovered adjacent to the south-east wing of the villa formed by 200 or more graves aligned east–west and containing extended human skeletons. Up to three layers of burials were recognised during excavation. Grave goods were found with some of the lower and outlying burials, giving them a likely mid-seventh century date. Some of the skeletons showed evidence of having suffered fatal weapon injuries probably originating from a single hostile event. Towards the south east of the cemetery are a group of post holes which have been interpreted as a shrine, temple or small chapel. Signs of reuse during the medieval period include cesspits and rough cobbling beyond the courtyard boundary wall.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The archaeological site incorporates evidence of Roman and Medieval tile kilns, dating from AD 180 to AD 290 and from the mid thirteenth century respectively. Additionally, large quantities of waste material indicate the site of a Roman pottery kiln with a terminal date of AD 70.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Further details of the archaeology in this area can be found in <i>The Romano-British Villa and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eccles, Kent.</i><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a reference to the Common Park at Aylesford, dating to 1597, which has been interpreted as a deer park, although it could refer to a common. The site lies to the South of Eccles village and to the west of (now) Bull Lane. According to an 1805 map the park consisted of some 269 acres </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins_of_the_village">Origins of the village</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins of the village"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Prior to 1850, the area now occupied by Eccles was mostly farms and arable land.<sup id="cite_ref-Medway1_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Medway1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around that time, the builder <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cubitt" title="Thomas Cubitt">Thomas Cubitt</a> bought two farms near the river and opened a brickyard and cement works.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The brick works was the most advanced in the world producing up to 30 million bricks a year. Situated on a gentle slope, the buildings were positioned along tram lines so that each stage of manufacture moved closer to the quay; with this arrangement production progressed by gravity rather haulage.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Transfers within the works site were facilitated by upwards of three miles of tram and railroad, connecting the works buildings with the extraction pits and the wharf. Piped water was provided to the works from a large reservoir. At its peak, the works employed almost a thousand men and boys.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The plant formally closed in 1941 and was later demolished.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As the brick works was established, a local farmer Thomas Abbot built a terrace of 22 cottages to house the workers, the settlement soon increased to 300.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area was known as ‘Bull Lane’ before it adopted the name of ‘Eccles’. The former name still appears on the Ordnance Survey map of 1897.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the village did not acquire the name ‘Eccles’ until some time in the second half of the 19th century, the name is not new. In her book <i>The Place Names of Kent</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Judith Glover traces it in its present form back to 1208 and suggests that it derived from the 10th-century 'Aecclesse', meaning the 'meadow of the oak'. The <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> of 1086 records Eccles as ‘Aiglessa’.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At that time, it had a population of 22 households, putting it in the largest 40% of recorded settlements.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has also been suggested that the name 'Eccles' comes from the Latin word 'ecclesia' meaning 'church', implying that a post-Roman Christian community existed in the area, although there is no evidence for this.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Volume 4 of <i>The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent</i>, published in 1798, reports that Eccles was a manor of the parish of Aylesford, "which was of some note in the time of the Conqueror, being then part of the possessions of <a href="/wiki/Odo_of_Bayeux" title="Odo of Bayeux">Odo</a>, bishop of Baieux, the king's half brother, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in the book of Domesday".<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The site of the manor of Eccles was lost to public knowledge by the 18th Century, but it was surmised to be somewhere at the eastern extremity of the parish, near Boxley Hill. </p><p>A detailed history of the village of Eccles can be found in <i>The Medway Valley: A Kent landscape transformed</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Medway1_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Medway1-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_amenities">Current amenities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Current amenities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is a school, a church,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a pub, a convenience store with post office services,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a doctors’ surgery.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is also a church hall, which is used by the village pre-school, and a drop-in centre for the over-50s in Cork Street. </p><p>At the centre of the village is a large park (‘the Rec’) with a <a href="/wiki/Skate_park" class="mw-redirect" title="Skate park">skate park</a>, children's play facilities and exercise equipment for adults. On weekends there are junior football games. Nearby, there is a sports field which has been used by Eccles Football Club since the 19th century. </p><p>There is now just one pub in Eccles, the Red Bull, which is grade II listed.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Walnut Tree was demolished in early 2012 and the site developed into private housing.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>St Mark’s School,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eccles, is a small mixed-year group, Church of England Primary School. It was rebuilt in 2002 on a green-field site close to the small Victorian building that it replaced.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is set in attractive grounds, with solar roof panels, large gardens, allotment beds and a sports court.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A library bus visits every Tuesday afternoon.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A farmers’ market is held on every third Sunday of the month<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at <a href="/wiki/Aylesford_Priory" title="Aylesford Priory">Aylesford Priory</a> which is within walking distance of the village. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Location_and_surroundings">Location and surroundings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Location and surroundings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Eccles is three miles from junctions 5 and 6 of the <a href="/wiki/M20_motorway" title="M20 motorway">M20 motorway</a>, and the same distance from junction 3 of the M2 motorway. Maidstone East Station is <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span class="frac">4<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span>⁄<span class="den">2</span></span> miles away. The village also has road access to communities on the west bank of the Medway by way of Peter's Bridge which was opened in September 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eccles sits between the villages of <a href="/wiki/Aylesford" title="Aylesford">Aylesford</a> (one mile away) and <a href="/wiki/Burham" title="Burham">Burham</a> (also one mile away), below the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs" title="North Downs">North Downs</a> whose shelter provides a favourable micro-climate for both the village and the adjacent vineyards.<sup id="cite_ref-vineyard1_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vineyard1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a network of footpaths around the village providing access to the surrounding countryside, vineyards and the River Medway. There are all-weather footways south to Aylesford Priory and north to Pilgrims' Way and thence to Burham. Beyond Burham, there is a combined footpath and cycle way down to the Riverside Walk at Peter's Village. </p><p>Eccles features on a number of ramblers' routes. For example, it is part of the 'Ancient Sites of Aylesford' walk,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which incorporates the ancient monuments of <a href="/wiki/Kit%27s_Coty_House" title="Kit's Coty House">Kit's Coty House</a> and <a href="/wiki/Little_Kit%27s_Coty_House" title="Little Kit's Coty House">Little Kit's Coty House</a>. </p><p>Three major long-distance trails pass within a mile of the village. They are the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrims%27_Way" title="Pilgrims' Way">Pilgrims' Way</a>, the <a href="/wiki/North_Downs_Way" title="North Downs Way">North Downs Way</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Medway_Valley_Walk" title="Medway Valley Walk">Medway Valley Walk</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Kit’s_Coty_vineyard"><span id="Kit.E2.80.99s_Coty_vineyard"></span>Kit’s Coty vineyard</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Kit’s Coty vineyard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The vineyard adjacent to Eccles village is located on land acquired by the wine producer Chapel Down in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-vineyard1_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vineyard1-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is named after the ancient monument which is situated on the slope of the North Downs immediately above.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The conditions for viniculture are reputed to be similar to those of the Champagne region in France.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By coincidence, the route of the <a href="/wiki/2007_Tour_de_France" title="2007 Tour de France">2007 Tour de France</a> through Kent included a section of Pilgrim’s Way that lies immediately along the northern boundary of the vineyard.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At one time, prior to its acquisition by Chapel Down, the land had been designated as the site for the Mid Kent Parkway Station on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, following strong opposition from PEFTT (Protect Eccles From The Train) and other local groups,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was eventually decided that the rail route would not run along the Medway Valley past Eccles and Burham but would instead pass through a 4 km tunnel under Blue Bell Hill, and run alongside the M2.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among those claiming credit for this decision were a coven of White Witches from Hastings who had previously performed a ritual at Little Kit’s Coty House on the Countless Stones to protect them from any disturbance by the railway.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 95 acres of the vineyard are planted with Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Bacchus grapes.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Chardonnay grape is used in a premium single-vineyard range of wines which are marketed as the Kit’s Coty Collection.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sharon_Bennett" title="Sharon Bennett">Sharon Bennett</a>, English Illustrator, designer, artist and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Marks" title="Charlie Marks">Charlie Marks</a>, English football player</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Detsicas, A, 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 August</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.englishwineproducers.co.uk&rft.atitle=English+Wine+Producers+%3A%3A+Chapel+Down+launches+a+Prestige+Cuv%C3%A9e+from+its+award-winning+single+vineyard+estate+Kit%E2%80%99s+Coty&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.englishwineproducers.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flatest%2Fchapel-down-launches-a-prestige-cuvee-from-its-award-winning-single-vineyard-estate-kit-s-coty%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEccles%2C+Kent" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eccles,_Kent&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Eccles,_Kent" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Eccles, Kent">Eccles, Kent</a> at Wikimedia Commons </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/explore-kent-bucket/uploads/sites/7/2019/02/05142006/Aylesford-community-trail-leaflet1.pdf">A leaflet which describes the Eccles locality.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/explore-kent-bucket/uploads/sites/7/2019/02/05141911/Valley-of-Visions-Mag-LOW.pdf">A series of leaflets which give an overview of the Medway Gap.</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/explore-kent-bucket/uploads/sites/7/2019/02/05141932/Walk-6.-Pits-Pilgrims-Aylesford.pdf">A circular walk from Aylesford Station which passes through Eccles</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=1011770&resourceID=5">Entry under the National Heritage List for England for 'Romano-British villa, Anglo-Saxon cemetery and associated remains at Eccles'. 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