The lost village of Chart: Settlement possibly demolished due to disease only remembered due to curious artifact
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No-one knows exactly what happened to the village of Chart.
Mentioned as a manor in the Domesday Book, it was clearly once an important place with a right to hold a market every Tuesday granted by Royal Charter from Edward II in 1310 and a three-day fair to celebrate St John the Baptist s day.
Chart existed in Anglo-Saxon times: re-enactors Janet and Bob Connelly
It seems to have existed in an area now covered by woodland near to Pizien Well that today falls within the parish of Wateringbury, just outside Maidstone.