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Goodnestone, Dover

Village in Kent, England

Field	Value
country	England
official_name	Goodnestone
static_image	File:Holy Cross Church from Walled Garden of Goodnestone Park Kent England 1.jpg
static_image_caption	Holy Cross Church from the Walled Garden of Goodnestone Park
coordinates
label_position	top
population	378
population_ref	{2011 Census including Knowlton}
civil_parish	Goodnestone
shire_district	Dover
shire_county	Kent
region	South East England
constituency_westminster	Herne Bay and Sandwich
post_town	Canterbury
postcode_district	CT3
postcode_area	CT
os_grid_reference	TR255545
london_distance_mi	60
london_direction	ESE

NOTOC Goodnestone is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, England. The village is situated approximately 7 mi east-southeast from the city of Canterbury, and 5 mi west-southwest from Sandwich. The civil parish also contains the villages of Chillenden and Knowlton, and the hamlets of Rowling and Tickenhurst.

Goodnestone's Grade I listed parish church of the Holy Cross is in the Diocese and Archdeaconry of Canterbury and the Deanery of East Bridge. The church is set adjacent to Goodnestone Park, and dates from the 12th century, with additions and alterations to the 19th. Hussey and Rickman rebuilt the nave, chancel, and south porch in 1839–41. Within the church chancel is a 1752 monument by Peter Scheemakers to Brook Bridges (died 1717), of Goodnestone Park. A curate of Holy Cross was Herbert James, the father of Cambridge academic and ghost story writer M. R. James, who was born at Goodnestone Parsonage in 1862.

Goodnestone Park

Main article: Goodnestone Park

At the south-west of the village is Goodnestone Park, a mansion with estate and gardens. Only the gardens are open to the public. The home was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges, 1st Baronet. Elizabeth, the daughter of the 1st Baronet's grandson Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet, married Jane Austen's brother. Austen visited her brother and Elizabeth at the estate regularly during their early married life.

References

"Civil Parish population 2011".
[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/town/6/goodnestone/ "Goodnestone"] {{Webarchive. link. (4 March 2016 , The [[Church of England]]. Retrieved 2 March 2015)
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[http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsGoodnestoneSan/01.htm "Goodnestone, near Sandwich"]{{Dead link. (January 2025)
'Note on the Author' in ''A Warning To The Curious and other stories'' by M.R. James. London: Orion Books, 1998.
[http://www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk/history-of-goodnestone.php "History of Goodnestone"] {{Webarchive. link. (17 February 2010 , Goodnestone Park Gardens. Retrieved 2 March 2015)

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