Woodnesborough
| Woodnesborough | |
 The Charity Inn, Woodnesborough |
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  Woodnesborough |
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| Population | 400 + |
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| OS grid reference | TR310568 |
| District | Dover |
| Shire county | Kent |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Sandwich |
| Postcode district | CT13 |
| Dialling code | 01304 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | South Thanet |
Coordinates: 51°15′49″N 1°18′36″E / 51.2636°N 1.3100°E
Woodnesborough is a village in East Kent two miles west of Sandwich.
Its name is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Golles-Wanesberge, with forms like Wodnesbeorge being attested a little later, around 1100. The name is believed to have meant Woden's hill/mound (Old English Wōdnes burh) after Anglo-Saxon god Woden (the English cognate of the Norse Odin, known in Proto-Germanic as Wodanaz); though some of the spellings also suggest *wænnes beorg ('hill of the mound'), from Old English wenn, wænn 'a tumour, blister, mound'. At the end of the eighteenth century there is a record of a burial mound beside the church, but the settlement also boasts a hill which could equally well have been described as a burh in Old English.[1]
The village was once served by East Kent Light Railway and can now be reached by bus services from Sandwich.
There was also a post office, which closed down at the end of January 2008.
There is a Grade II* listed[2] Anglican church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.
References
- ↑ Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. WOODNESBOROUGH.
- ↑ British Listed Buildings retrieved 20 July 2013
External links
Media related to Woodnesborough at Wikimedia Commons
