The Boxley All Saints

Unfortunately today's blip, much as I would like it to be, is not a mash-up of the iconic 90's girl band and an historic English village named after a type of tree but I hope you'll still find it diverting nonetheless.
The village of Boxley, which despite being only a 15 minute drive away we have not visited in several years, nestles at the bottom of the North Downs escarpment with the immediate area having been occupied since pre-history. It is a manmade environment with centuries of woodland and grazing having given the valley in which it sits its special character.
The village is thought to have been properly established by 825 AD and in the Domesday records shows a population of just 76. An abbey was founded in 1146 and played an important part in shaping the village and the surrounding area.
It is thought that the origins of the village's name is from "Boc Leah", which is an Anglo Saxon name for a glade in a woodland where box trees tend to grow.
Today's image is just one of the twelve listed buildings in the village (most of which are predominantly constructed of redbrick and peg tile roofs) and is the gloriously characterful church of (St. Mary The Virgin and) All Saints. It dates from between the 13th and 15th Centuries and has a number of memorials within the church to notable families - with just one example being a tablet in memory of Sir Edwin Wait of nearby Allington Castle, a Knight Banneret, who was imprisoned and tortured in the Tower of London during the reign of King Richard III.
It also has a pub called The Kings Arms that dates from the 15th Century. So, of course, we ignored it completely -  which by now you will know from my journal couldn't possibly be true! We received a lovely warm welcome and 'forced' ourselves to indulge in a pint. We will definitely be back to try the food which sounded, and smelled, fantastic.