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September 03, 2008

Barham, Kent

O famous Kent
What country hath this isle that can compare with thee?

--Michael Drayton (1563-1631), in Polyolbion

Ancient, pastoral and undisturbed. Population 1800. It was spelled Bioraham in 799, after Beora, a Saxon chief. The Anglican village church dates to the 1300s.

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Posted by JD Hull at September 3, 2008 01:23 AM

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