Northbourne, Kent

Northbourne is a village and civil parish near Deal in Kent, England. It has a public house, The Hare and Hounds, a primary school and is the home of the current, and prior, Baron Northbourne.^[2] It should not be confused with an area in Bournemouth of the same name.

New Mill, Northbourne

Northbourne
A house in Northbourne
Northbourne Location within Kent
Population	772 (Including Betteshanger, Finglesham, Hacklinge, and Marley. 2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TR3352
District	Dover
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Deal
Postcode district	CT14
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Dover
List of places UK England Kent 51.220°N 1.339°E / 51.220; 1.339

KentSalads Ltd were based in Northbourne until they relocated to Tilmanstone and renamed themselves Tilmanstone Salads. Kentsalads were the first UK company to produce Iceberg lettuce commercially.

Within the parish is The Miner's Way Trail, which links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent.^[3]

Northbourne Court

In the 16th century Northbourne Court was the home of Miles Pendred and his wife Elizabeth Lewin and their family.^[4] She had been a nurse to Elizabeth I, and her daughter Anne's husband Edward Sanders was sometimes called the Queen's "foster brother".^[5] The old house and chapel were ruined and demolished by 1750, but the garden wall still survives. A engraving of the chapel ruins drawn by John Mercer was published in the Gentleman's Magazine for December 1802.^[6][7]