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

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.

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

Fordwich itself is smaller in size than Sturry.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Sturry has had a cricket club playing off Field Way since 1863, Sturry Cricket Club in 2005 were made homeless after the land was sold, currently the club are playing out of Polo Farm Sports Ground near Fordwich and run two sides in the KRCL on saturday and a friendly side on sundays.

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.

* Barham Downs, Barton, Blean Forest, Chartham and Stone Street, Chestfield and Swalecliffe, Gorrell, Harbledown, Harbour, Little Stour, North Nailbourne, Northgate, St Stephens, Seasalter, Sturry North, Sturry South, Tankerton, Westgate, and Wincheap.

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.

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, Kent

* Milner Court, Sturry, Kent: additions and new gardens, 1907

Nearby villages include Rough Common, Sturry and Tyler Hill.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Likewise, and equally fascinating, is the news that such unlikely synonyms as `` pratakku '', `` sweathruna '', and the tongue-twister `` nnuolapertar-it-vuh-karti-birifw- '' all originated in the same village in Bathar-on-Walli Province and are all used to express sentiments concerning British `` imperialism ''.

Today Dogtown is the only deserted village in all New England that I know of.

Azincourt is twinned with the English village of Middleham in North Yorkshire.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Most of the families moved to the nearby village of Dooagh, which is beside the sea, while some others emigrated.

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

The school is involved in a study of the prehistoric and historic landscape at Slievemore, incorporating a research excavation at a number of sites within the deserted village of Slievemore.

It was during his early trips to Achill prior to the outbreak of World War I that Henri painted extensively and is reputed to have done portraits of almost all the children in Dooagh village.

There is a monument to him in his native village.

The tiny village is home to the Association Internationale Albert Schweitzer ( AIAS ).

There is also the traditional village politics of the Samoa Islands, the " faamatai " and the " faasamoa ", which continues in American Samoa and in independent Samoa, and which interacts across these current boundaries.

The site of the ruins is within the borders of this village, though the expansion of the Limassol tourist area has threatened the ruins: it is speculated that some of the hotels are on top of the Amathus necropolis.

" They must guard a village that is being shelled too heavily.

Among the most exciting recent archaeological discoveries in Greece is the recognition that the sanctuary site near the modern village of Kalapodi is not only the site of the oracle of Apollon at Abai but that it was in constant use for cult practices from early Mycenaean times to the Roman period.

Portes is a fishing village on the east coast.

Aberdour (;, ) is a scenic and historic village on the south coast of Fife, Scotland.

Aberfoyle () is a village in the region of Stirling, Scotland, northwest of Glasgow.

Pentwyn, Torfaen is a small village located in the district of Abersychan.

The village has a cricket team ( Pentwyn CC ) and is located right next to the old railway line.

A small group of houses on Incline Road mark the beginning of the village and the village boundary is near Cwmavon.