2018

TR1134 : Lympne Village Sign

taken 8 years ago, near to Lympne, Kent, England

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Lympne Village Sign
Lympne Village Sign

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Lympne :: TR1235

Lympne is a village on the former shallow-gradient sea cliffs above the expansive agricultural plain of Romney Marsh in Kent. The settlement forms an L shape stretching from Port Lympne Zoo via Lympne Castle facing Lympne Industrial Park then via the main settlement to Newingreen in the north, centred 11 km west of Folkestone, 2.3 mi west of Hythe and 13 km ESE of Ashford. In Roman times Lympne was known as Portus Lemanis.

Kent Village Signs (provided by David Anstiss)

King George VI recommended that the old custom of identifying villages with carved or painted name signs could be revived. In 1920, Biddenden had won a Daily Mail competition for a sign featuring the two Biddenden Maids.
More villages followed, especially in 1953, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. More signs have been put up due to the Millennium. This has meant half of the county villages are identified.]
See also Link , an article on Kent Village Signs

Geographical Context: Village, Rural settlement
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Lympne Village Sign [4] Title Clusters: · Lympne Village Sign [2] ·
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TR1134, 186 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
N Chadwick   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Friday, 6 April, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 17 June, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TR 1187 3495 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:4.4850N 1:1.3854E
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! TR 1187 3497
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SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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