Goodnestone, Dover

Goodnestone, Dover

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Goodnestone
static_

static_image_caption=Goodnestone Church
latitude= 51.2450
longitude= 1.2295
population =
shire_district= Dover
shire_county = Kent
region= South East England
constituency_westminster= Dover
post_town= Canterbury|postcode_district = CT3

postcode_area= CT |dial_code=
os_grid_reference= TR255545

Goodnestone is a village in the district of Dover, Kent, England.

Goodnestone Park near Sandwich

Goodnestone Park is a stately home near the Canterbury–Sandwich village. It was built in 1704 by Brook Bridges. Bridges' daughter, Elizabeth, married Jane Austen's brother, and Austen visited them on the estate regularly. [ [http://www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk/index.html Goodnestone Park Gardens] ] Its gardens are open to the public from late March to early October, and on Sundays from mid-February.

The ghost story writer M. R. James was born in Goodnestone Parsonage in 1862. His father, Herbert James, was curate at Goodnestone church.

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