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Frittenden is a village and civil parish in the Tunbridge Wells District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the flood plain of one of the tributaries of the River Medway, 15 miles (24 km) to the east of Tunbridge Wells: the village is three miles (4.8 km) south of Headcorn. It is in a very rural part of Kent. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. ==History== Roman remains have been found near an old Jutish track which ran through the area, along which pigs were driven into the forest of Andreadsweald. The village itself is named in a charter of 804, and the ''Anglo Saxon Chronicle'' of 839 relate that King Ethelwulf of Wessex gave the village land to St Augustines in Canterbury. Lord Thomas Cromwell was given land in the village during the reign of King Henry VIII. Frittenden Church underwent extensive renovation in 1848 following a fire in the Church in 1790 when lightning struck the Church steeple. Rumours of the Frittenden Treacle Mines were started by locals in the 1930s at the expense of gullible Londoners who would tour the area in their newly acquired motor cars, eager to visit the source of much of the world's treacle. (Frittenden Historical Society ) keeps a record of the history of the village and its inhabitants. It meets regularly in the (Memorial Hall ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frittenden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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