Northbourne is a village and civil parish near Deal in Kent, England. It has a public house, The Hare and Hounds, a primary school and is the home of the current, and prior, Baron Northbourne.Paull, John (2014) Lord Northbourne, the man who invented organic farming, a biography Journal of Organic Systems, 9 (1), pp. 31-53. It should not be confused with an area in Bournemouth of the same name.
Within the parish is The Miner's Way Trail, which links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent.
Northbourne Court In the 16th century Northbourne Court was the home of Miles Pendred and his wife Elizabeth Lewin and their family.Richard Hovenden, Visitation of Kent, 1619 (London, 1898), pp. 77, 103–104: Calendar of Patent Rolls, Elizabeth, 8 (London: HMSO, 1982), nos. 829, 1343: She had been a nurse to Elizabeth I, and her daughter Anne's husband Edward Sanders was sometimes called the Queen's "foster brother".Nicola Tallis, Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen (Michael O'Mara, 2024), p. 60: Edward Hasted, History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, 4 (Canterbury, 1799), p. 146. The old house and chapel were ruined and demolished by 1750, but the garden wall still survives. An engraving of the chapel ruins drawn by John Mercer was published in the Gentleman's Magazine for December 1802.Northbourne Court: Historic England, List 1000180John Mercer, "Mansion-house at Northborn", Gentleman's Magazine (December 1802), p. 1097.
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