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UPPER HALLING
This web site aims to provide a pictorial record of Upper Halling, it shows recent pictures from 2009 onwards while also showing some pictures and information relating to historical Upper Halling.
It is hoped that residents and friends of Upper Halling will contribute photographs and memories of the village which we can copy and put on the website. Contributions and corrections are welcomed, please email them to upperhalling@yahoo.co.uk
Crabbes Corner, a.k.a. Lingham's Corner - 1950s
Pre 1800 Upper Halling was just a small hamlet however vestiges of Roman occupation and Roman settlement such as burial urns have been found alongside the ‘Pilgrims way’ as well as Roman pottery and bones (P.4 ALM}. Upper Halling had an early inn mentioned in Thorpe’s Custumale Roffensis 1788, an ancient chapel, the St Lawrence Chapel which is situated opposite the ‘Black Boy’ at the bottom of Chapel lane and an early manor house Court Farm situated above the village at the top of Vicarage Lane.
Upper Halling has a population of about 500 and the majority of its existing house date from the 1930s onward. The area has changed in the second half of the twentieth cenrtury from being an industrial chalk quarrying village, to a purely residential area. It is surrounded by disused chalk pits and it backs on to farmland and beautiful North Downs woodland
Court Farm
Court Farm, 2010
MCL Woodyard and white Pit
Looking North East from South Hill, before demolition of the Rugby Cement Works in 2007
Lingham's Corner, Dec. 2010
References.
Gowers, Edward; Church Derek, Across the Low Meadow. Christine Swift, 1979 (Text reference ALM)
Preston, J.M., Industrial Medway, 1977
Hann, Andrew, The Medway Valley, Phillimore, 2009
Many thanks also to the information provided by subscribers to the Facebook Group 'Old Halling'
Visit the Halling Historical Society website to find out more about Halling and the surrounding area of Kent and the Medway Valley by copying and pasting or entering the web address below into your browser
http://www.hallinghistory.co.uk/community/halling-historical-society-18475/home#
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