Brenzett is a village and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Shepway

Shepway

Shepway is a local government district in Kent, England. It includes the towns of Folkestone and Hythe and the Romney Marsh. It is named after the Jutish lathe of Shepway; the Royal Court of Shepway, which met near Lympne at a place called Shepway Cross, was the principal court of the Cinque Ports...

 District of Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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. The village lies on the Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 mi ² .-Quotations:*“As Egypt was the gift of the Nile, this level tract .....

, three miles (4.8km) west of New Romney

New Romney

New Romney is a small town in Kent, England, on the edge of Romney Marsh, an area of flat, rich agricultural land reclaimed from the sea after the harbour began to be silted up. New Romney was once a sea port, with the harbour adjacent to the church, but is now more than a mile from the sea...

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It is the home to the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum Trust that as well as exhibiting the remains of various World War II

World War II

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 combat aircraft that have been excavated from the surrounding marshland

Romney Marsh

Romney Marsh is a sparsely populated wetland area in the counties of Kent and East Sussex in the south-east of England. It covers about 100 mi ² .-Quotations:*“As Egypt was the gift of the Nile, this level tract .....

 also includes a de Havilland Vampire

De Havilland Vampire

The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire was a British jet-engine fighter commissioned by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Following the Gloster Meteor, it was the second jet fighter to enter service with the RAF. Although it arrived too late to see combat during the war, the Vampire served...

 T.11 and an English Electric Canberra

English Electric Canberra

The English Electric Canberra is a first-generation jet-powered light bomber manufactured in large numbers through the 1950s. The Canberra could fly at a higher altitude than any other bomber through the 1950s and set a world altitude record of 70,310 ft in 1957...

 B.2 on display in the museum grounds.

Brenzett was also the site of a Royal Air Force

Royal Air Force

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 Advanced Landing Ground (ALG) airfield during the Second World War, RAF Brenzett

RAF Brenzett

RAF Brenzett was a Royal Air Force station close to the village of Brenzett near Romney Marsh in Kent during the Second World War. It was used as an airfield in 1944 for the Mustang Wing which comprised three squadrons including two Polish squadrons in exile and operated patrols against V-1 flying...

, at one time operating North American Mustang III

P-51 Mustang

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Whilst Brenzett is a busy transport hub, it has surrendered its public house (Fleur de Lis) and Post Office but retains a petrol station, school and transport cafe. The parish church is dedicated to St Eanswythe

Eanswith

Saint Eanswith , also spelled Eanswythe or Eanswide, was an Anglo Saxon princess.In 630, Eanswith founded the Benedictine Folkestone Priory, the first nunnery in England...

and is located on the road to Brenzett Green, a remnant of the original A2070 to Hamstreet and Ashford which was rebuilt entirely in the 1990s.