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PENNENDEN-HEATH, a common in Maidstone parish, Kent; 1½ mile N E of Maidstone. It was a place of great Saxon meetings long before the Norman conquest; was the place of the famous assembly, in 1076, atwhich Archbishop Lanfranc pleaded the cause of his church against Odo de Bayeux, Earl of Kent; is the place at which county meetings have been held for centuries; and has a county hall, a small building of someantiquity.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a common" (ADL Feature Type: "parks") |
| Administrative units: | Maidstone Parish Kent Ancient County |
| Place: | Pennenden Heath |
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