East Farleigh, River Medway 1898
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The village sits high above the flood plain of the Medway. This peaceful scene shows the 14th-century five-arched ragstone bridge, which is considered by some to be the finest in the south-east. Violent and unhappy events took place here in earlier times, however. Cromwell's men marched across the bridge on their way to capture Maidstone from the Royalists. At St Mary's Church, on the hill, there is a cross commemorating 43 hop pickers who died of cholera in 1849.
An extract from Villages of Kent Photographic Memories.
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