Romney Deanery
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The Romney Deanery is in the Diocese of Canterbury
in Kent
, England
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Churches within the Deanery
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Churches within the Deanery
Deanery
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| Church Name | Location | Current Incumbent |
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| St Martin | Aldington Aldington, Kent Aldington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is eight miles south-east of the town of Ashford... |
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| St Peter and St Paul | Appledore Appledore, Kent Appledore is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England. The village centre is 12 miles south-west of Ashford town, and on the northern edge of the Romney Marsh The northerly part of this village is Appledore Heath.... |
Revd Neville Gallagher |
| St Peter and St Paul | Bilsington Bilsington Bilsington is a village and civil parish in the Ashford district of Kent, England. The village is south of Ashford, on the B2067, Hamstreet to Hythe road just north of the Royal Military Canal... |
Revd Richard Love |
| St Rumwold | Bonnington Bonnington Bonnington is a dispersed village and civil parish on the northern edge of the Romney Marsh in Ashford District of Kent, England. The village is located eight miles to the south of the town of Ashford on the B2067 .... |
Revd Richard Love |
| St Eanswith's | Brenzett Brenzett Brenzett is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village lies on the Romney Marsh, three miles west of New Romney.... |
Revd Keith Fazzani |
| St Augustines | Brookland Brookland, Kent Brookland is a village and civil parish in the Shepway district of Kent, England, about west of New Romney. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 453. It is located on the A259 road in Romney Marsh.... |
Revd Shuna Body |
| All Saints | Burmarsh Burmarsh Burmarsh is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village is located three miles west of Hythe on the Romney Marsh.... |
Revd Jim Field, Revd John Cowling |
| The Sanctuary | Dungeness | Revd Sarah Williams, Revd Lydia Terry |
| St Peter and St Paul | Dymchurch Dymchurch Dymchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village is located on the coast five miles south-west of Hythe, and on the Romney Marsh. It is typical of this part of the coast, having been a village which became larger during the 1930s... |
Revd Jim Field, Revd Peter Snare |
| St Mary the Virgin | Ebony Ebony, Kent Ebony is a hamlet south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, in the parish of Stone-cum-Ebony, on the Isle of Oxney.-Notable residents :*Norman Forbes-Robertson, distinguished Victorian Shakespearean actor... |
Revd Neville Gallagher, Revd Stella Halmshaw |
| St Thomas | Fairfield | Revd Shuna Body |
| St Peter | Greatstone | Revd Sarah Williams, Revd Lydia Terry |
| Church of The Good Shepherd | Hamstreet Hamstreet Hamstreet is a village in Kent, in South East England.The village is located some 6 miles south of Ashford on the A2070, the main road between Ashford and Hastings... |
Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| St George | Ivychurch Ivychurch For Ivychurch, Wiltshire, see Ivychurch PrioryIvychurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, three miles north-west of New Romney. The parish council consists of five members.The village has a public house but has... |
Revd Jim Field |
| St Mary | Kenardington | Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| All Saints | Lydd Lydd Lydd is a town in Kent, England, lying on the Romney Marsh. It is one of the larger towns on the Marsh, and the most southerly town in Kent. Actually located on Denge Marsh, Lydd was one of the first sandy islands to form as the bay evolved into what is now called the Romney Marsh... |
Revd Sarah Williams, Revd Lydia Terry |
| St Stephen | Lympne Lympne Lympne is a village situated on the former sea cliffs above the Romney Marsh in Kent. It lies approximately west of Folkestone, 2 miles west of Hythe and east of Ashford.... |
Revd Richard Love |
| St Nicholas | 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... |
Revd Jim Field |
| St Peter & St Paul | Newchurch Newchurch, Kent Newchurch is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District in Kent, England. The village is located on the Romney Marsh, west of Dymchurch... |
Revd Jim Field |
| St Clement | Old Romney Old Romney Old Romney is a village and civil parish in the Shepway District of Kent, England.The village, as its name suggests, is the original site of the settlement, and is situated two miles inland from New Romney... |
Revd Jim Field |
| St Mary | Orlestone Orlestone Orlestone is a civil parish in Ashford District, Kent, England, with a population of 1,500. The centre of the parish is Hamstreet village which falls partly within the parish of Warehorne due to the ancient parish boundary... |
Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| St Mary Magdalene | Ruckinge Ruckinge The village of Ruckinge is located in Kent. It lies seven miles southeast of Ashford on the B2067 Hamstreet to Hythe road. It is the centre of a civil parish of the same name, which also includes the scattered community of Bromley Green... |
Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| St Dunstan | Snargate Snargate Snargate is a village near New Romney in Kent, England.Snargate's most surprising claim to fame in the late 19th century, is that it was home to an important artist. Harold Gilman, sometimes called the English Van Gogh, was a British Impressionist and a member of the Camden Town Group. He grew up... |
Revd Keith Fazzani |
| Snave Church | Snave Snave Snave is a very small hamlet located on Romney Marsh in Kent, England just off the A2070 road nine miles south of the town of Ashford. Snave only consists of a few houses and the church of St Augustine's which holds one service per year at harvest festival. In spring, the churchyard is famed for... |
Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| St Mary the Virgin | St Mary in the Marsh St Mary in the Marsh St Mary in the Marsh is a village near New Romney in Kent, England, situated in the heart of Romney Marsh in one of its least populated areas, but with New Romney just 3 miles away, there are plenty of amenities close by.... |
Revd Jim Field |
| All Saints | St Mary's Bay | Revd Jim Field |
| St Mary the Virgin | Stone Stone in Oxney Stone in Oxney is a village south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, in the civil parish of Stone-cum-Ebony near Appledore.The village is south east of Tenterden, and stands in a position on the eastern side of the Isle of Oxney... |
Revd Neville Gallagher, Revd Stella Halmshaw |
| St Matthew | Warehorne | Revd Rod Whately, Revd Patricia Fogden |
| St John the Baptist | Wittersham Wittersham Wittersham is a village and civil parish, part of the Isle of Oxney, south of Ashford in Kent, South East England, near Tenterden.The Domesday Book does not mention Wittersham, but it does assign the manor of Palstre to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux. Palstre was only one of four places in the Weald,... |
Revd Neville Gallagher, Revd Stella Halmshaw |
| All Saints | Woodchurch Woodchurch Woodchurch is an area of the Wirral Peninsula, in England, which is sometimes considered a suburb of Birkenhead. Administratively, Woodchurch is within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral and the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West... |
Revd Neville Gallagher, Revd Stella Halmshaw |