15 Facts About Sittingbourne

Sittingbourne is an industrial town in Kent, south-east England, 17 miles from Canterbury and 45 miles from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient British trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons and next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.

Sittingbourne owes its name to a modernised version of an observation on its location.

Sittingbourne was anciently written Sedingbourne, in Saxon, Saedingburga, i e the hamlet by the bourne or small stream.

Sittingbourne is mentioned as a stopping point in The Canterbury Tales, with the Summoner in the Wife of Bath's Prologue says:.

Donald John Dean VC OBE of Sittingbourne was awarded the Victoria Cross for deeds carried out in France in 1918.

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Sittingbourne's ashes are interred in the family plot at St John the Baptist Church, Tunstall, Kent.

Sittingbourne and its consumed suburb of Milton today is a growing town, with much recent expansion by way of house-building in the former chalk and brick clay works digs.

Sittingbourne was ideally suited for this purpose and a successful barge-building industry developed at Milton Creek.

Sittingbourne developed into a port during the industrial revolution, from which Kentish produce was transported to the London markets.

Sittingbourne Mill existed from circa 1769, which by 1820 had grown and was owned by Edward Smith.

Sittingbourne died in 1936, when the Lloyd group was taken over by Sir William Berry, who in 1936 formed the Bowater-Lloyd Group.

Sittingbourne Adult Education Centre provides some post-16 and adult training in the town and there is an Adult Skills centre located in the town centre.

Sittingbourne is geographically located midway between the major port of Dover and London.

In March 2017 Sittingbourne became the pilot for Arriva Transports on demand transport system called ArrivaClick.

The track was originally used for training alone but since 1994 the Sittingbourne Crusaders took part in the Conference League and other competitions.