Probate in Hollingbourne

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History

Hollingbourne is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. The parish is located on the southward slope of the North Downs to the east of the county town, Maidstone. The parish population is almost 1000 persons and includes Hollingbourne village as well as Broad Street and Eyehorne Street.

The village is four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone. Its church is dedicated to All Saints. Within the church are many monuments to the Culpeper family, who have lived in the village for many generations. All Saints is best-known for the centuries-old 'Culpeper cloth,' sometimes described as an altar cloth (although it is probably too large to have served that function), said to have been embroidered by the four daughters of Sir John Culpeper, Lord of Greenway Court.

Hollingbourne railway station, on the Maidstone-Ashford line, serves the village. There is also a bus connecting Hollingbourne to Maidstone.

Having suffered the construction of the M20 motorway and the High Speed 1 rail link in recent years (both of which run immediately adjacent to the historic village), residents in 2007 joined forces with the neighbouring village of Bearsted, in voicing their objections to the proposed Kent International Gateway development. The plans have now been withdrawn by the government. Maidstone services lie within the parish on the north side of the motorway.

A notable resident is opera singer Marie McLaughlin, owner of Hollingbourne Manor. The former home of the Culpeper family, Hollingbourne Manor is a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house at the foot of Hollingbourne Hill.

The North Downs Way National Trail passes through the village, as does the Pilgrims' Way, an ancient trackway historically associated with pilgrimage routes to Canterbury.