Faversham

Faversham is a market town and civil parish within the Swale district of Kent, England, United Kingdom. The city is 48 miles from London and 10 miles from Canterbury and lies next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey within the Thames Estuary. It is near the A2, which follows an ancient British trackway which become utilized by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons, and called Watling Street. The Faversham name is of Latin thru Old English starting place, that means "the steel-employee's village". You can come and explore this place.

There has been a settlement at Faversham considering that pre-Roman times, next to the historic sea port on Faversham Creek, and archaeological evidence has shown a Roman theatre became based inside the city. It turned into inhabited by means of the Saxons and referred to within the Domesday e book as Favreshant. The city changed into favoured by means of King Stephen who hooked up Faversham Abbey, which survived until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538. Subsequently, the metropolis became an critical seaport and mounted itself as a centre for brewing, and the Shepherd Neame Brewery, founded in 1698, stays a full-size principal corporation.