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Welcome to Wouldham, a small village on the South bank of the River Medway between Rochester and Maidstone, Kent in England. Wouldham is probably best known for one of its past residents, Walter Burke, who was the Purser aboard HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, and is famously portrayed cradling Admiral Lord Nelson in his last dying moments. Walter is now at rest in All Saints Church in Wouldham. If you have any pictures, facts or anything you consider of interest relating to Wouldham, please email me and I will add them to the site for everyone's benefit |
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Welcome to Wouldham Village in the Kent Downs |
WOULDHAM VILLAGE LIFE |
Last update 20 February 2012 |
Those Summer walks we used to take, Up the road, then across the stile. We’d follow the path around the field And walk for several miles. As we skirted the edge of the quarry, Pheasants would noisily rise in the sky; Rabbits scampered into the corn That was already about waist high. We’d cross the metal bridge, over the pit, Then turn right and set our aim, For the row of old, concrete buildings In the field, just off School Lane. Following the road, down past the school, Turn left, and past the Co-op. To the bottom of the Tram Road, Then on to the parade of shops. |
SUMMER WALK |
Mr. Booth, and Tom, the butcher, And the sweetshop of Mrs. Frank; A pub that was called The Foresters, Where all the village folk drank. A short stroll to the corner, Past The Medway Inn, Up the hill past the football pitch, Found us back home again. It seems like only yesterday As my recollection tries to show People and places as they used to be, About fifty years ago. Poem by Jim Bell |
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