Northbourne

Northbourne

A house in Northbourne
Northbourne
Northbourne shown within Kent
Population 772 (Including Betteshanger, Finglesham, Hacklinge, and Marley. 2011)[1]
OS grid reference TR3352
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Deal
Postcode district CT14
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England

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.[2] It should not be confused with an area in Bournemouth of the same name.

New Mill, Northbourne

KentSalads Ltd were based in Northbourne until they relocated to Tilmanstone and renamed themselves Tilmanstone Salads. Kentsalads were the first UK company to produce Iceberg lettuce commercially.

Within the parish is The Miner's Way Trail, which links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 October 2015.
  2. ↑ Paull, John (2014) Lord Northbourne, the man who invented organic farming, a biography Journal of Organic Systems, 9 (1), pp. 31-53.
  3. ↑ "The History of the Coalfield Parishes". www.dover.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2013.

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