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Sturry

Sturry
The Swan Inn, High Street, Sturry.jpg
Sturry High Street
Sturry is located in Kent
Sturry
Sturry
Sturry shown within Kent
Area 13.42 km2 (5.18 sq mi)
Population 6,820 (Civil Parish 2011Y)
• Density 508/km2 (1,320/sq mi)
OS grid reference TR176606
Civil parish
  • Sturry
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town CANTERBURY
Postcode district CT2
Dialling code 01227
Police Kent
Fire Kent
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
KentCoordinates: 51°18′13″N 1°07′16″E / 51.3036°N 1.1211°E / 51.3036; 1.1211

Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river three miles north-east of Canterbury in Kent. Its large civil parish incorporates the former 'mining village' of Hersden and several hamlets.

It lies at the old Roman junction of the road from the city to Thanet and Reculver: at the point where a fort was built to protect the crossing of the river. Sturry railway station was opened in 1848 and electrified in 1962, by the South Eastern Railway: it is on the line between Canterbury west and Ramsgate. The station was until the 1860s the stage coach point for Herne and Herne Bay. The parish boundaries are the same now as they were in 1086 as recorded in the Domesday Book.

Human habitation in Sturry is thought to have started around 430,000 years ago, as dated flint implements - namely knives and arrow-tips - show. Other signs of early human activities include a collection of axes and pottery shards from the Bronze Age and more pottery from the Sturry Hill gravel-pits, and a burial-ground near Stonerocks Farm showed that there was an Iron Age settlement of Belgic Celts (who gave Canterbury its pre-Roman name of Durovemum) from the end of the 2nd century BC. All this evidence indicates that human habitation of some kind existed on the north bank of the River Stour, on Sturry's site, for hundreds and thousands of years. When the Romans arrived, they built Island Road (the A28) to connect Canterbury, the local tribal capital, with the ferry to the Isle of Thanet, with a branch to their fort at Reculver.


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