Goodnestone is a village

Village

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 in the district of Dover

Dover

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, Kent

Kent

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, England

England

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Goodnestone Park near Sandwich

Goodnestone Park is a stately home near the Canterbury–Sandwich village. It was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges, 1st Baronet.
His grandson, Brook Bridges

Sir Brook Bridges, 3rd Baronet

Sir Brook William Bridges, 3rd Baronet was a British baronet and Whig politician.Born posthumously at Whitehall, he was the only son of Sir Brook Bridges, 2nd Baronet and his wife Anne Palmer, daughter of Sir Thomas Palmer, 4th Baronet, of Wingham. With his birth he succeeded his father as baronet...

' daughter, Elizabeth, married Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

's brother, and Austen visited them on the estate regularly. Its gardens are open to the public from late March to early October, and on Sundays from mid-February.

Notable people

The ghost story writer M. R. James

M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...

was born in Goodnestone Parsonage in 1862. His father, Herbert James, was curate at Goodnestone church.