High Halstow Village Sign - High Halstow - Kent - UK - Pictorial Village Signs on Waymarking.com

High Halstow in Kent is adjacent to the River Thames and is the home for nesting and breeding Herons. The RSPB has a reserve to to the north of the village and has many waymarked walks and one takes you close to where the Herons nest. Hence the main feature of this sign is the Heron.

The village is quite small and the local land is arable farm and paddocks for horses. The village is alleged to be haunted,‘ghosts’ or other manifestations but for candidates we can go back to 1752 when John Grace, returning home after being thrown out of the ‘Dog’ (as the Red Dog was then called) brutally beat to death his long suffering wife Mary Her dying screams and pleas for mercy were heard by passers by who went to the local dignitary at ‘Ducks Court’ to raise the alarm. On finding the battered body of this poor, much abused woman with her young daughter ‘Lizzie’ sobbing nearby, a hue and cry was raised and John Grace was captured before he could escape from the peninsula. After pleading guilty at the Maidstone Assizes he was hung and his dead body left to rot in chains on Hoo Common, these so called ghosts the spirits of John, in his misery seeking redemption for his brutal deed.

The sign is located on a small triangular green opposite St Margaret's Church. The sign commemorates 25 years of the local Womens Institute, but is not dated.

Location: On the small triangular green opposite the church Plaque: no Construction Material: Metal Sign Date: Not listed Occasion Commemorated: Not listed Artist: Not listed Web Address: Not listed

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Date Logged Log   05/30/2011 grnoval visited it