Tonge and Tonge Mill
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jazzy_daveMonday i did a supermarket covert shop in Sittingbourne and i walked into the town from the village , but on this occasion i diverted off the main road to Tonge hamlet and went into Sittingbourne via the back roads or lanes.
Tonge Mill is a listed building and with camera in hand i took some pics.
Tonge hamlet
In 1798, Edward Hasted records that it was once called 'Thwang' (a Saxon name).
Vortigern, King of Saxon Britain reward two Saxon chiefs Hengist and Horsa after his victory over the Scots and Picts. Hengist requested, as a pledge of the king's affection, only as much land as on ox-hide could surround. This was granted, he cut the whole hide into small thongs (long, thin strips, generally of sturdy fiber or leather, typically used for binding), and inclosed within them a space of ground, this was large enough to contain a castle, which he accordingly built on it, and named it Thwang-ceastre (i. e. Thong-castle). The castle later became a ruin in the later years of the Saxon age.
Only the moat, a millpond, and the outer earthworks remain. The mill pond was used by the Grade II listed Tonge Mill.
The village has a parish church. The Church of St Giles, which is in the diocese of Canterbury, and deanery of Sittingbourne. This is Grade I listed/
Tonge pond and mill.
Tonge Mill is a listed building and with camera in hand i took some pics.
Tonge hamlet
In 1798, Edward Hasted records that it was once called 'Thwang' (a Saxon name).
Vortigern, King of Saxon Britain reward two Saxon chiefs Hengist and Horsa after his victory over the Scots and Picts. Hengist requested, as a pledge of the king's affection, only as much land as on ox-hide could surround. This was granted, he cut the whole hide into small thongs (long, thin strips, generally of sturdy fiber or leather, typically used for binding), and inclosed within them a space of ground, this was large enough to contain a castle, which he accordingly built on it, and named it Thwang-ceastre (i. e. Thong-castle). The castle later became a ruin in the later years of the Saxon age.
Only the moat, a millpond, and the outer earthworks remain. The mill pond was used by the Grade II listed Tonge Mill.
The village has a parish church. The Church of St Giles, which is in the diocese of Canterbury, and deanery of Sittingbourne. This is Grade I listed/
Tonge pond and mill.
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Date: 2016-05-11 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-11 06:44 pm (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2016-05-12 12:32 am (UTC)The smallest commercial leather strips I can find with a quick google are 1/16". So let's say 1/64" is the narrowest practical width you can consistently cut.
The average area of modern cowhide is 54 square feet. Let's say you get the tallest, fattest ox available, and get 100 square feet out of it.
Then let's split the hide to double the area to 200 square feet.
We can then turn that into over 150,000 feet of leather strips, or nearly 30 miles That will surround a circle with a radius of nearly five miles, or about an eighth the size of London.
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Date: 2016-05-12 12:42 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2016-05-12 11:45 am (UTC)Love your pics and the history of the place :)