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Dawn Kingsford takes a stroll through the cobbled streets of Faversham on another of Mid Kent Living’s Great Days Out…


brewery – what more could you want from one small town in Kent? A popular landing post for boats, barges


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and royals, Faversham now entertains residents and visitors, captivated by the historic waterfront charm of this market town – the oldest in Kent.


Sheltering on the north Kent coast, the town’s productive past


aritime history, medieval streets, a charter market and a


and waterfront position earned it a reputation as “the larder of London”, with Tames sailing barges trafficking home-grown grain, hops, cherries, saltmarsh lamb and locally-made bricks along its busy creek and on to the capital.


Not an impressive enough boast for this quietly confident place? Then its 400-year history of producing gunpowder for famous batles such as Trafalgar and


Waterloo is positively explosive. Dating back to pre-Roman times,


the Domesday Book lists Faversham as land owned by the King, with many fine buildings – some 500 of them are now listed. Buildings like its stilted Guildhall remain, thanks to guardians who also opposed the Slum Clearance Act to retain Abbey Street - one of the finest streets of medieval homes in south east England.


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