| Ringlestone | |
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 Ringlestone Road leading to the Ringlestone Inn | |
  Ringlestone Location withinKent | |
| OS grid reference | TQ8782755844 |
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| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Maidstone |
| Postcode district | ME17 |
| Dialling code | 01622 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
| 51°16′13″N0°41′34″E / 51.270239°N 0.692911°E /51.270239; 0.692911 | |
Ringlestone/ˈrɪŋɡəlstoʊn/ is ahamlet betweenWormshill andHarrietsham in theMaidstone district ofKent, England. It is in thecivil parish of Wormshill.
Ringlestone orRongostone (meaning "ring of stones") dates back to before theNorman conquest of England in 1066 and is mentioned in theDomesday Book of 1086.[1]
At the time of the Domesday Survey, the hamlet was smaller than it is today and yet was still deemed worthy of recording as noted byEdward Hasted in his 18th century survey of Kent:
On the summit of the hill, at the south-east boundaries of this parish, next to Harrietsham, is a small hamlet, consisting of only three houses, belonging to farms of but small rents, which, however insignificant it may seem now, seems antiently to have been of some account, having been thought of sufficient consequence to be entered in the survey of Domesday, under the title of the possessions ofOdo, bishop of Baieux, as follows:Richard holds of the bishop Rongostone, it was taxed at one suling. The arable land is . . . . . There are twovilleins, having onecarucate, and it paid six shillings in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, and now it is worth [f]orty shillings. Ulviet held it of king Edward.[2]
Today the hamlet is a collection of cottages and apublic house surrounding a former farm, now converted to the Ringlestone Farmhouse Hotel.[3] TheRinglestone Inn, a central feature of the hamlet, is an historic 16th centuryale-house.
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