Barfrestone is a hamlet in East Kent

Kent

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, UK

United Kingdom

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 between Shepherdswell

Shepherdswell

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, Eythorne

Eythorne

Eythorne is a civil parish and small village of about 1000 homes, located 7.3 miles NNW of Dover in Kent. There are currently about 2500 residents. Eythorne holds many historical attributes. Situated a few miles away from Dover beach, it offers many articles of evidence of the war...

 and Nonington

Nonington

Nonington, also, variously, Nonnington, Nunyngton, Nonnyngton, Nunnington, is a small village in the southeast corner of Kent, situated halfway between the historic city of Canterbury and the channel port town of Dover...

 and close to the pit village

Pit village

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s of Elvington

Elvington, Kent

Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne, Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th Century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown,...

 and Snowdown

Snowdown

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. Of note are the tiny Norman

Norman architecture

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 church, complete with internationally famous carvings around the door, the bell in the adjacent yew

Taxus baccata

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 tree, and the offices and workshops of L'Arche

L'Arche

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Kent Community.

Alternative spellings are Barfreston and Barfreystone.

External links

• 5 pages of close up photos of Barfreston's medieval carvings

Old English pronunciation - "Barson" - now known as "Bar-fre-ston", rather than "Bar-fre-stone"