The school, which is mixed, currently has around 425 pupils, ages 3 to 13, and is located at Milner Court in Sturry.

* Sturry Cricket Club

A 16th Century manor house and oasthouse, built in 1583 and which belonged to St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury still stand in Sturry village beside the medieval tithe barn-although they have all been incorporated into the King School after they were sold by the widow of Lord Milner in 1925.

During the Second World War, Sturry was one of the most badly bombed villages in England, the greater part of the High Street being destroyed by a parachute mine in 1941 during the Baedeker Blitz, killing 15 people of which 7 were children aged 12 and under.

In the book, Letters to Sturry, it is recorded that on Wednesday, 28 August 1940, there were eight separate air raid warnings and on ' Battle of Britain Day ', 15 September 1940, a German Dornier bomber plane, ( Aircraft 2651, 3rd Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 76 ), crash-landed in a field below Kemberland Wood near the Sarre Penne stream.

Three of the five crew were killed and were firstly buried in Sturry Cemetery but then re-interred in the late 1960s into the German war cemetery at Cannock Chase.

The most important era for Sturry, determining its future shape, size, function and name, was that part of the early 5th century when the beleaguered Romano-Britons brought in Frisians and Jutes as mercenaries to help them fight against invading Picts and Scots, and rewarded them with land.

Rusty Goffe who appeared as an Oompa-Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory was born and raised in the town attending nearby Sturry Secondary school.

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.

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.

Some of them settled near Sturry: their cemetery was found at Hersden.

Sturry was the first ; Stour-gau, meaning district or lathe on the Stour.

He was the son of Humphrey Plowden ( 1490 – 1557 ), by his wife, Elizabeth Sturry ( died 1599 ), widow of William Wollascot, and daughter of John Sturry, Esq., of Rossall, Shropshire Tresswell & Vincent, Vis.

Other conversions of oasts for non-residential purposes include a theatre ( Oast Theatre, Tonbridge, Oast house Theatre Rainham, a Youth Hostel ( Capstone Farm, Rochester, another at Lady Margaret Manor, Doddington – now a residential centre for people with learning difficulties ), a school ( Sturry ), a visitor centre ( Bough Beech reservoir ) offices ( Tatlingbury Farm, Five Oak Green and a museum ( Kent Museum of Rural Life, Sandling, Preston Street, Faversham, Wye College, Wye and the former Whitbread Hop Farm at Beltring.

Sturry Church of England Primary school is situated near the north of the village, with strong links with Hersden Primary School.

Sturry railway station serves the village of Sturry near Canterbury in Kent, England.

Fordwich itself is smaller in size than Sturry.

The road continues via Upstreet and Hersden to Sturry, and on to the cathedral city of Canterbury.

Sturry is a village on the Great Stour river three miles north-east of Canterbury in Kent.

Since the 1960s a large number of satellite housing estates have been built on the north side of the village, mostly in former woodland, which have turned Sturry into one of the major dormitary villages for Canterbury.

He rebranded the original Green Shield Stamps catalogue shops as Argos beginning in July 1973, the first purpose-built store opening on the A28 Sturry Road, Canterbury in late 1973.

Nearby villages include Rough Common, Sturry and Tyler Hill.

The large parish of Sturry Church incorporates the former mining village of Hersden and several hamlets.

Human habitation in Sturry is thought to have started around 430, 000 years ago, as dated flint implements-namely knives and arrow-tips-show.

Nonetheless a number of interesting buildings remain intact in Sturry, including St Nicholas parish church, which is predominantly Norman in style, with the oldest parts dating to about 1200.

The junior part of The King's School, Canterbury, is also located in south Sturry.

Spires Academy, formerly known as Sturry Secondary Modern School and later Frank Montgomery School, is the only secondary school in Sturry.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Even the Distilled Spirits Institute has long had a specific prohibition.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

He jammed it this spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered him.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.