Hollingbourne's Beautiful Church

The village of Hollingbourne lies near a permanent spring at the foot of the North Downs. The history of the area stretches back to the stone age but the first mention of a community is in the 11th Century Domesday Book. A church would have stood on the present site before the Norman Conquest, but the present church of All Saints mainly dates from the late fourteenth century after an earthquake demolished much of the earlier structure.

Down the centuries the church's parish register has recorded the births and marriages and its six bells have tolled the passing of many thousands of ordinary village folk, while the fabric of the church has been extended and embellished by the wealthy and powerful local families of the past - Culpepers, Duppas and Thomases.