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Coordinates: 51°20′05″N 1°14′09″E / 51.3348°N 1.2358°E
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 Sarre Windmill |
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Sarre shown within Kent |
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| Population | 130 (2001) |
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| OS grid reference | TR255645 |
| Civil parish | Sarre |
| District | Thanet |
| Shire county | Kent |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Birchington |
| Postcode district | CT7 |
| Dialling code | 01843 |
| Police | Kent |
| Fire | Kent |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | North Thanet |
Sarre is a village and civil parish in Thanet District in Kent, England. The village is a part of St. Nicholas-at-Wade ecclesiastical parish, after having lost the local church of St. Giles in Elizabethan times; the ecclesiastical parishes were subsequently combined.1 In its own right Sarre is an Ancient Parish.23 It has a population of 130.4
Sarre is located at the point where the old 'Island Road' from Margate to Canterbury crossed the Wantsum Channel initially by a ferry and from the late Middle Ages by a bridge. The route of this bridge is followed by a short section of the modern A28 and is still marked on some maps as Sarre Wall.
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Mediaeval
The coastal confederation of Cinque Ports during its mediæval period consisted of a confederation of 42 towns and villages in all. Which included Sarre, under the 'limb' of Sandwich, Kent.5
World War II
In July 1940 the village was turned into a model strong point by the 1st Canadian Pioneer Battalion. Within three weeks the village bristled with defences including fifteen casemates and a variety of flame traps, flame fougasses and other anti-tank devices.6
The Canadian commander Andrew McNaughton later recalled: "I turned a pioneer battalion loose to fortify Sarre in every possible way. They took ladies' boudoirs and turned them into machine-gun posts without showing anything from the outside; I'm sure they never got the concrete out. There was a big building inside the village that had a hoist for casks. The boys arranged a big barrel of petroleum, with phosphorus bombs inside, that was all poised ready to swing. When a tank came through the village and slowed to make the turn they would just pull a catch and the barrel would smack the tank fair and square and go off with a great gust of flame."nb 1
While McNaughton was inspecting the defences in August 1940, the village was attacked from the air and three bombs were dropped. A cottage was hit killing one adult and two or three children.6
Today
The village has one public house, The Crown Inn – this being known locally as the 'Cherry Brandy House'. A special recipe of Cherry Brandy can be purchased from behind the bar. A second public house, the King's Head, recently closed and was sold privately.
The village mill (Sarre Windmill) was previously open to the public as a working windmill, and today’s visitors can still explore its upper two floors of fascinating history, whilst the ground floor is a holiday cottage for two. The shop with tea rooms to serve visitors to the mill is now also a holiday cottage.7
Nearest Stations: Birchington and Sturry from which regular buses operating on the Margate/Ramsgate to Canterbury route can be obtained.
References
- Footnotes
- Notes
- ^ A Parish History of St. Nicholas-at-Wade and Sarre, 1990
- ^ RootsWeb: Isle-of-Thanet-L Re: [IoT] St.Peter's Thanet
- ^ Worcester Branch, Birmingham and Midlands Society for
- ^ Office for National Statistics : Census 2001 : Parish Headcounts : Thanet Retrieved 2009-08-30
- ^ http://www.villagenet.co.uk/history/1155-cinqueports.php
- ^ a b c Swettenham 1968, p. 133.
- ^ Hoseasons Sarre Windmill Retrieved 2012-02-27
- Bibliography
- Swettenham, John (1968). McNaughton. Volume 2 (1939-1943). Ryerson Press. ISBN 978-0-7700-0238-1.
External links
Media related to Sarre, Kent at Wikimedia Commons
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