St Mary
Kennington
St Mary Great Chart
On Saturday 13 September I rode in aid of St Mary's Church, Kennington, Kent, where I
ring, together with Joel Wilson, a bell ringer and son of the vicar at
Great Chart. We visited 55 churches on the day in the Ashford, Folkestone & Hythe
area, starting at Great Chart at 10:00 and finishing at Willesborough Baptist
Church at 17:52. We rode a total distance of 67.5 miles or 108.5 km. A complete
list of churches visited and the times we were there can be found at the bottom
of this page. Mostly it went to plan though a couple of churches were taken out
of order (as we failed to find the church on the first pass). Another rider
joined us for most of the day, but we lost him between Hythe and Lympne and, in
consequence, lost quite a lot of time at this point looking for him. This
resulted in a mad dash in the last 1½ hours to try and catch up and complete
all the planned churches
In my opinion, notwithstanding that it is my home church, Kennington had the
best refreshments of the churches we visited. Unfortunately, it was a bit early
when we passed to take advantage of this.
I have some photographs and will post them here in due
course.
I have loaded our course into Google Earth and if you want to look at the route
this
link should take you there. (You may be asked to open 2 successive files - I
am not sure why or I would reduce it to just the one click). The route has 55 churches.
We found one extra one on the route but we did not manage to visit any of the 20 optional
extras I had located
If the above does not work then you may need to download Google Earth to enable your
computer to open the link. Click here to download Google
Earth
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Visited churches
| Index |
Church |
Map
Ref |
Est
Time |
Act.
Time |
| 1 |
GREAT
CHART St Mary the Virgin |
TQ
979 419 |
10:00 |
10:00 |
| 2 |
ASHFORD
Baptists, Brookfield Rd |
TQ
998 416 |
10:10 |
10:10 |
| 3 |
ASHFORD
St Simon, Brookfield Rd |
TQ
999 414 |
10:15 |
10:12 |
| 4 |
ASHFORD
St Francis, Cryol Road |
TQ
999 411 |
10:20 |
10:17 |
| 5 |
ASHFORD
Methodists, Cade Rd |
TR
004 411 |
10:25 |
10:20 |
| 6 |
ASHFORD
Evangelist, Francis Rd |
TR
006 415 |
10:30 |
10:25 |
| 7 |
ASHFORD
SOUTH Christ Church, Beaver Rd |
TR
008 417 |
10:35 |
10:30 |
| 8 |
ASHFORD
Centrepiece Church, Bank Street |
TR
008 427 |
10:40 |
10:35 |
| 9 |
ASHFORD
Ashf Christian Fellowship, Tufton St |
TR
009 427 |
10:45 |
10:38 |
| 10 |
ASHFORD
St Mary the Virgin |
TR
010 427 |
10:50 |
10:40 |
| 11 |
ASHFORD
Baptists, Station Rd |
TR
012 427 |
10:55 |
10:42 |
| 12 |
ASHFORD
Society of Friends, Albert Road |
TR
010 430 |
11:00 |
10:46 |
| 13 |
KENNINGTON
Meth/URC, Faversham Rd |
TR
017 453 |
11:15 |
10:56 |
| 14 |
KENNINGTON
St Mary the Virgin, Church Rd |
TR
022 451 |
11:20 |
11:04 |
| 15 |
HINXHILL
St Mary |
TR
048 426 |
11:40 |
11.25 |
| 16 |
BRABOURNE
LEES Brabourne Baptist Church, Woolpack Hill |
TR
077 403 |
12:00 |
11:45 |
| 17 |
SMEETH
St Mary |
TR
071 396 |
12:10 |
11:53 |
| 18 |
SELLINDGE
St Mary The Virgin |
TR
093 384 |
12:20 |
12:03 |
| 19 |
SELLINDGE
Meth Chapel, Main Rd |
TR
097 383 |
12:25 |
12:05 |
| 20 |
STANFORD
All Saints |
TR
130 381 |
12:45 |
12:30 |
| 21 |
POSTLING
St Mary |
TR
145 391 |
13:00 |
12:45 |
| 22 |
NEWINGTON(Folkestone)
St Nicholas |
TR
182 373 |
13:15 |
13:15 |
| 23 |
CHERITON
St Martins, Horn St |
TR
190 365 |
13:30 |
13:25 |
| 24 |
CHERITON
All Souls, High St |
TR
202 368 |
13:40 |
13:38 |
| 25 |
CHERITON
St Joseph, Ashley Ave |
TR
203 368 |
13:45 |
13:40 |
| 26 |
CHERITON
St Andrew, Cheriton Rd |
TR
206 367 |
13:48 |
13:55 |
| 27 |
FOLKESTONE
St George, Audley Rd |
TR
209 363 |
13:50 |
14:00 |
| 28 |
FOLKESTONE
St Mary Chap, Ravenlea Rd |
TR
214 361 |
13:55 |
14:05 |
| 29 |
FOLKESTONE
Radnor Park URC, Castle Hill Ave |
TR
221 360 |
13:58 |
14:10 |
| 30 |
FOLKESTONE
Our Lady Help Christian - Guildhall St |
TR
227 361 |
14:05 |
14:17 |
| 31 |
FOLKESTONE
St Augustine, Dover Rd |
TR
229 362 |
14:10 |
14:25 |
| 32 |
FOLKESTONE
St Peter, the Durlocks |
TR
233 361 |
14:15 |
14:30 |
| 33 |
FOLKESTONE
St Mary and Eanswythe, The Bayle |
TR
229 358 |
14:25 |
14:40 |
| 34 |
FOLKESTONE
Seventh Day Adventists |
TR
230 360 |
14:20 |
14:45 |
| 35 |
FOLKESTONE
Methodist, Sandgate Rd |
TR
223 357 |
14:30 |
14:50 |
| 36 |
FOLKESTONE
Christ Church Tower, Sandgate Rd |
TR
223 357 |
14:35 |
14:51 |
| 37 |
FOLKESTONE
Holy Trinity with Christ Church, Sandgate Rd |
TR
219 356 |
14:40 |
14:55 |
| 38 |
SANDGATE
St Paul Sandgate, Hill Rd |
TR
206 353 |
14:50 |
15:15 |
| 39 |
SEABROOK
Seabrook Church, 141 Seabrook Rd |
TR
185 349 |
15:05 |
15:25 |
| 40 |
HYTHE
Lady of Good Counsel |
TR
167 350 |
15:10 |
15:30 |
| 41 |
HYTHE
St Leonard, Church Hill, Hythe |
TR
161 349 |
15:20 |
15:45 |
| 42 |
HYTHE
United Reform Church, East Street |
TR
166 348 |
15:15 |
15:50 |
| 43 |
HYTHE
Methodist Church, Prospect Rd |
TR
160 346 |
15:30 |
15:55 |
| 44 |
HYTHE
St Michael, Stade St |
TR
160 346 |
15:35 |
15:56 |
| 45 |
HYTHE
Salvation Army, Portland Rd (canal towpath for next) |
TR
159 346 |
15:40 |
15:58 |
| 46 |
HYTHE
Holy Cross, Palmarsh (West Hythe) |
TR
138 336 |
15:55 |
16:10 |
| 47 |
LYMPNE
St Stephen |
TR
119 346 |
16:15 |
16:45 |
| 48 |
ALDINGTON
St Martin |
TR
074 362 |
16:40 |
17:00 |
| 49 |
ALDINGTON
Evangelical Mission, Forge Hill |
TR
061 363 |
16:50 |
17:05 |
| 50 |
MERSHAM
St John the Baptist |
TR
052 394 |
17:10 |
17:20 |
| 51 |
SEVINGTON
St Mary |
TR
037 409 |
17:30 |
17:30 |
| 52 |
WILLESBOROUGH
St Mary Virgin, Church Rd |
TR
029 415 |
17:40 |
17:40 |
| 53 |
WILLESBOROUGH
Methodist, Cudworth Rd |
TR
021 408 |
17:45 |
17:45 |
| 54 |
WILLESBOROUGH
Christ Church, Hythe Rd |
TR
026 422 |
17:50 |
17:50 |
| 55 |
WILLESBOROUGH
Baptist Church, Hythe Rd |
TR
024 423 |
17:55 |
17:52 |
