A Little about Faversham
Faversham has been inhabited for at least a thousand years. Today, it is a small market town , on the edge of the creek. There is a little shipbuilding, but mainly the town survives on brewing, and tourism. There are also a lot of people who commute to London , as it is also on the main line railway.
Faversham has lots of old buildings, the most notable being the Guildhall, which is 15th. Century, and some of the churches. Both Davington church, and St. Catherines are over 1000 years old.
There used to be an Abbey, and the ruins are in the grounds of Queen Elizabeth's school , which some of the guides attend. Faversham is also a minor Cinque Port, and some years ago, the Guides and Brownies formed a guard of honour, when the Queen Mum visited in her capacity as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Faversham used to be the centre of the gunpowder industry in the UK, but the works were moved to Scotland, during the 1930's because it was felt that they would be too vunerable to attack in the case of war.
There is a lot of water around Faversham,
as the separate bits of the powder mills were isolated by diverting the creek, to limit the damage from fires and explosions.
Faversham has a heritage centre, which tells a lot more about the history of the place, and sells a lot of books, guides, etc.
Today, there are many housing estates around the town, although people often live here, because it's a nice place, but work elsewhere.
Kent is known as the garden of England, and outside the town, there is a lot of farming, mainly arable, and fruit, although some sheep do run in the apple orchards.
We can pick our own fruit all summer, if we want to!
We do have a cinema, a small theatre, and a swimming pool complex, but for anything else, we have to go to Canterbury, or Sittingbourne.
Here are some postcards of Faversham. I hope you like them. Maybe you will have the chance to visit it one day!
