| Saltwood | |
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 Saltwood Village Hall | |
  Saltwood Location withinKent | |
| Population | 850 (2011)[1] |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HYTHE |
| Postcode district | CT21 |
| Dialling code | 01303 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| UK Parliament | |
| 51°04′50″N1°04′39″E / 51.0806°N 1.0776°E /51.0806; 1.0776 | |
Saltwood is a village andcivil parish[2] in theFolkestone and Hythe District ofKent, England. Within the parish are the small hamlets ofPedlinge and Sandling.
Saltwood is located immediately to the north ofHythe on the high land looking over theRomney Marsh. It is served bySandling railway station on theSouth Eastern Main Line. It is surrounded by farming land.
The parish includes the hamlet of Sandling which hasa railway station. It is the location ofSandling Park, a large estate and house, which stretches around the village of Saltwood and ends at Saltwood's other satellite hamlet,Pedlinge. The gardens of the Park are often open during the summer months.
Saltwood Castle,[3] once a possession of theArchbishops of Canterbury,[4] is located here, having been assigned to them by a deed of 1026 (now in theBritish Museum) signed by such leading figures asKing Canute andEarl Godwin.[5] The castle was the overnight resting place of four knights (Reginald fitzUrse,Hugh de Morville,William de Tracy, andRichard le Breton) on their journey toCanterbury to murderThomas Becket.
More recently this castle (now privately owned) has been home to Kenneth Clark,Lord Clark of Saltwood, and then his sonAlan Clark MP. It is located about a mile to the north of thecinque port ofHythe, although the parish boundaries of Saltwood come very much closer to Hythe town centre.
TheNorman parish church is dedicated toSt Peter & St Paul.[6] There is also anAnglicanchapel of ease at Pedlinge. The residents of Sandling Park, theestate and their estate employees traditionally worship at the latter, which is served by theparishpriest (rector) of Saltwood.
There are two primary schools, Saltwood CEP,[7] and St Augustine's RCP,[8] as well as a major secondary comprehensive school,Brockhill Park Performing Arts College,[9] located in the parish.
Brockhill Country Park is located here. Saltwood also has aCricket team[10] which plays in the Kent Village League's Second Division, and has a ground and pavilion in the village at Kiln Corner, on the top of Tanners Hill.
Until 1987 Saltwood attracted visitors to a historical point of interest, theSaltwood Miniature Railway, which was the oldest miniature railway in the world, still extant.[11] However, in 1987 the railway closed. The locomotives and rolling stock were sold, and some time later the track was lifted. For about ten years it remained possible to follow the course of the line, but the entire site has now been redeveloped with new houses.
An inn of some antiquity trades on the village green. The Castle Hotel was first licensed as a public house in 1890 by the localMackeson's Brewery, although there is evidence that beer was sold on the site for some time before that date.[12]
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