Hearts Delight

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Hearts Delight
Kent
Hearts Delight House - geograph.org.uk - 4079.jpg
Hearts Delight House, in Hearts Delight
Location
Grid reference: TQ885620
Location: 51°19’36"N, 0°42’18"E
Data
Post town: Sittingbourne
Postcode: ME9
Local Government
Council: Swale

Hearts Delight is a hamlet in northern Kent, half a mile south of Borden and a mile and a half south-west of Sittingbourne town centre.

This part of Kent is criss-crossed with close little lanes linking farmsteads and hamlets, and Hearts Delight is at a meeting of such lanes, growing itself from a farm of the same name.

History and heritage

According to Edward Hasted, writing in 1798, Heart's Delight was a small hamlet in the parish of Borden. Wrens Farm was an estate in 1664 (but called 'Rains Farm') and was owned by a squire from Tunstall.[1]

The hamlet has four listed buildings, each Grade II listed:

  • Hearts Delight House,[2]
  • Filmer House,[3]
  • Sharp's House,[4]
  • Wren's Farmhouse[5]

References

  1. Hasted, Edward: The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent (1799)) Parishes
  2. Heart's Delight House, Borden - British Listed Buildings
  3. Filmer House, Borden - British Listed Buildings
  4. Sharp's House, Borden - British Listed Buildings
  5. Wren's Farmhouse, Borden - British Listed Buildings