Hersden

Hersden
Village entrance
Hersden  Hersden shown within Kent
Population	6,257
OS grid reference	TR204620
Civil parish	Sturry
District	City of Canterbury
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CANTERBURY
Postcode district	CT3
Dialling code	01227
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Canterbury
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Hersden is a village east of Canterbury in Kent, South East England. It is a former coalmining village dating from the 1920s, on the A28 road between Canterbury and the Isle of Thanet. It lies in the civil parish of Sturry, bordering the parish of Westbere.

History

A 5th-6th century cemetery of Frisians and Jutes was discovered nearby in 1931.

Exploratory works for a Channel Tunnel at Shakespeare Cliff near Dover led to the identification of the Kent Coalfield in 1890. Its northern extension came after coal was discovered at Chislet in 1918. Initially the miners lived in Ramsgate but in 1924 the Chislet Colliery Housing Society was formed to build a mining village of 300 houses, which became Hersden. The mine closed in 1969 but the Chislet Colliery Welfare Club remains.

Amenities

Now, there is a Chinese restaurant, the village hall which houses a social club and recently a large and impressive B.M.X track was built. There are two churches in Hersden; Hersden Church (a former Anglican and Methodist which now is used as a community centre - the congregation has moved to Sturry Church) and St Dunstan, the Roman Catholic Parish church which opened in 1935.

External links

• Sturry Parish Council