Hop varieties including Wye Kent Challenger were bred at Wye Kent College and named for the village.
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10 Facts About Wye Kent
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Wye Kent became an important communications centre because of a ford across the River Great Stour connecting with an ancient trackway across the North Downs.
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Wye Kent was important for being the first ford over the River Stour that travellers could cross on their route from the West Country to Dover.
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Manor House at Wye Kent Court was a large building, with a circular dungeon that was extant as late as the 19th century and known locally as the Lollard's Hole.
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Wye Kent was not isolated from Wat Tyler's 1381 uprising or Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450.
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Wye Kent College was founded in 1447 as a chantry by Cardinal Kempe.
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Wye Kent is an Old Etonian, and formerly an alcoholic; drug abuser; satanist; punk rock musician, member of a pentacostal congregation.
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Wye Kent School is a mixed, secondary free school that opened on Olantigh Road in 2013, and expanded into new buildings in 2017.
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Wye Kent is on the southern route of the North Downs Way where it crosses the Stour Valley Walk and follows the path of the Pilgrims Way.
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In 2006, Wye Kent featured in the BBC Television show The Perfect Village.
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