Bearsted

Bearsted
Bearsted[1]
Bearsted is located in Kent
Bearsted
Bearsted
Location within Kent
Population8,010 [2]
8,209 (2011 Census)[3]
OS grid referenceTQ765555
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMAIDSTONE
Postcode districtME14, ME15
Dialling code01622
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Kent
51°16′26″N 0°34′44″E / 51.2738°N 0.5789°E / 51.2738; 0.5789

Bearsted (/ˈbɛərstɛd/ ⓘ BAIR-sted, traditionally /ˈbɜːr-/ BUR-) is a village and civil parish with a railway station in mid-Kent, England, two miles (3.2 km) east of Maidstone town centre.[4]

Geography

The village was historically concentrated around Church Lane and The Green which includes The Street.[5] The village is on the north bank of the River Len, a tributary of the River Medway at the foot of the North Downs. A stream, the Lilk, flows south into the river Len through Bearsted.

Although part of the growing conurbation of Maidstone, the centre of Bearsted retains a traditional village look with 59 listed properties, many surrounding the village green, flanked by two pubs.

The parish of Bearsted has a population of 8010[2] (2001 figure) and is broadly divided into two areas of development. The traditional village of Bearsted with modern development around its conservation areas lies north of the A20 Ashford Road and the Madginford neighbourhood, largely constructed in the 1960s, lies south of the Ashford Road. The area includes a small supermarket and shopping centre, a park and ride facility and primary school. The parish also incorporates part of tudor Mote Park on its western boundary. Parts of Madginford were formerly part of the parish of Otham but to avoid division have been appropriated as part of Bearsted.

Transport

The village is connected by:

Governance

Bearsted in elections every four years elects one representative to Kent County Council; this is currently:

Election Member[6] Ward
2009 Paul Carter Maidstone Rural North

Bearsted elects three representatives to Maidstone Borough Council; they are currently:

Election Member[6]
2008 Richard Ash
2011 Mike Cuming
2011 Val Springett

The parish council has 15 elected councillors with published monthly meeting dates at Madginford Hall, Egremont Road, Bearsted, Maidstone ME15 8LH or St Peter's Church Hall, Button Lane. Sometimes the finance and the planning committee meet at King George V Memorial Hall. In 2011 the parish council was elected, with elections every four years.[7]

History

Holy Cross Church is located on Church Lane to the south of the green. A fair used to be held here on Holy Cross Day, an ancient festival traced back to 335 AD when the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was dedicated in Jerusalem. The dedication to Holy Cross appears to have been a relatively popular one for pre-Conquest foundations.[5] It is a Grade I listed building.[8] Its stone arch is partially Saxon, embedded with later work.[5] On three corners of the tower are stone beasts. Many books on Kent describe the animals on the tower as bears, and say these represent the name of the village.[9]

Hasted's History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798) reveals that the Anglo-Saxon name for the settlement was “Bergestede”, meaning “place on the hill/barrow”; other accounts refer to its earlier names as “Berghamstyde” and “Berghstede”. If the “Bergh” element does refer to a barrow (burial mound), this may be indicative of a church being sited on a previously revered site, in accordance with the advice of Pope Gregory to St. Augustine in 601 AD, which raises the possibility of this being a particularly early church site. It is possible that Bearsted is the “Berghamstyde” at which King Wihtred of Kent held a Council in 696AD and where he issued laws which are amongst the earliest of the Saxon written law codes.[5]

The Green was known as the Hothe and used as common land and from the 15th to 17th centuries, a number of the buildings which provide The Green's historical character were built.

Listed buildings in the conservation areas

Holy Cross Church in 2003

Within the Holy Cross conservation area are:[10]

Church of the Holy Cross Grade I listed
Table Tomb of the Duckelbery Family Grade II listed
Table Tomb of the Packman Family Grade II listed
Table Tomb South East of Church Porch Grade II listed
World War I War Memorial with deeply coved octagonal base Grade II listed

Within Bearsted (The Green) Conservation area, which includes part of The Street from Oliver's Cottages westward, the listed buildings with the dates of oldest sections, are:[5][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Snowfield Grade II listed 1911 for author Baroness Orczy
Garden House Grade II listed 1911 for author Baroness Orczy
Little Snowfield Grade II listed 1912 for author Baroness Orczy's mother
Hill House Grade II listed 18th century
The Soufflé restaurant at Old Timbers Grade II listed 16th Century[29]
The Limes Grade II listed 15th century
Bell House Grade II listed 16th century
Snowfield Cottage Grade II listed late 16th century or early 17th century
Forge Cottages Grade II listed 17th century
Baxter's Cottage/Eden Cottage/Kozecot Grade II listed 16th century
The Old Bakery Grade II listed 15th century
1 Colegate Drive Grade II listed 17th century
Old Manor Cottages and The Old Manor House Grade II listed 15th century
Ivy House Grade II listed 16th century
Holly House Grade II listed 16th or 17th century
The White Horse Grade II listed 16th century public house
Crisfield House Grade II listed 18th century

Amenities

The village is home to a tennis club along with a cricket club, bowls club and both a Scout group (1st Bearsted The Scarlet Pimpernels, founded 1912) and a Guide unit. Other establishments include a Rifle Club and The Bearsted and Thurnham Club, a private members' club, established in 1906, which overlooks the village green.

Kent International Gateway Group Plans

Main article: Kent International Gateway

In early 2007, the Kent International Gateway Group announced plans to build a large rail-freight and logistics depot in the corridor between Bearsted bounded by the railway line and the M20 motorway, an area which in use as fields and woodland. The controversial plans raised significant objections from local residents and the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

The planning application was rejected by the local planning authority, Maidstone Borough Council, and a public inquiry was held into Axa's appeal of this decision between 13 October 2009 and 23 December 2009. Following the public inquiry and review of the resulting Inspector's report, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Eric Pickles, rejected the appeal and refused planning permission for the development on 5 August 2010.[30][31]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ www.geograph.org.uk/profile/3763 Robert Edwards Retrieved 2 May 2012
  2. ^ a b "Neighbourhood Statistics". ONS. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  3. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Measurement tool". gridreferencefinder. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Conservation Area document" (PDF). Maidstone Borough Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2011. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  6. ^ a b Kent County Councillors. Retrieved 30 April 2012
  7. ^ "Parish Councillors". Bearsted Parish Council. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  8. ^ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Cross (1086253)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  9. ^ Hasted, Edward (1798). "Parishes: Bersted (sic)". The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent. Vol. 5. pp. 505–13. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  10. ^ "The Green Conservation Area map" (PDF). Maidstone Borough Council. Retrieved 2 May 2012.[permanent dead link‍]
  11. ^ Historic England. "Church of the Holy Cross (1086253)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  12. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1086171)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  13. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1086263)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  14. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1086264)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  15. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1086265)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  16. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1086270)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  17. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185244)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  18. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185278)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  19. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185346)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  20. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185389)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  21. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185400)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  22. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1185453)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  23. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1299725)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  24. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1299731)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  25. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1336250)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  26. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1336251)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  27. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1336254)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  28. ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1393851)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  29. ^ "UK Restaurants Guide". UK Restaurants Guide. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2012.
  30. ^ "Kent International Gateway freight depot plan refused". BBC News Online. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
  31. ^ Letter from Department for Communities and Local Government, 5 August 2010 Archived 28 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  32. ^ "Paul Ashbee". The Telegraph. No. 9 October 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
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