Newchurch, Kent

Newchurch
Newchurch
	; Newchurch Church's leaning tower
	Newchurch Location within Kent
Population	315 (2011)[1]
District	Folkestone and Hythe;
Shire county	Kent;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Romney Marsh
Postcode district	TN29
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Folkestone and Hythe;

Newchurch is a village and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe District in Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Dymchurch

During the Second World War it was home to an RAF airfield, RAF Newchurch, that operated Hawker Tempest fighter aircraft under Wing Commander Roland Beamont which participated in the defence of the UK against the German V-1 flying bomb offensive of 1944. A Chain Home coastal radar station was also located there.

The village's only pub, the Black Bull, owned at one time by Mackeson's Brewery and Shepherd Neame Brewery closed in 1995 and is now a private house.

The parish church is dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.[2] The ecclesiastical parish forms part of the Romney Deanery of the Maidstone archdeaconry of the Diocese of Canterbury.

References

"Civil Parish population 2011". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
"St Peter and St Paul church". Archived from the original on 24 June 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008.

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