Editing Charing (section)

==History==
The name '''Charing''' first appears in 799 as ''Ciorrincg''. The name probably comes from the [[Old English language|Anglo-Saxon]] word ''cerring'', which means a bend in the road, or it may be from ''Ceorra-ingas'', which is Anglo-Saxon, meaning ''people of Ceorra''. The village is sited on the [[Pilgrims' Way]] from London to [[Canterbury]], and is one day's walk from [[Canterbury]]. There are a number of old manors located around the village, such as Newlands (now a horse stud) and Pett Place. The village had a market recorded in 1285, and a fair recorded in the fifteenth century.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Charing, the parish church of Charing, is situated next to the remains of the [[Archbishop's Palace, Charing|Archbishop's Palace]], just off the High Street. The church's west tower was built in the 14th century, though most of the rest of the building was reconstructed following a catastrophic fire in the 16th century. The church contains a number of memorials to the Dering family, a branch of the [[Dering baronets|Dering family]] of Surrenden Dering, [[Pluckley]], Kent.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=4UcuAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22william+levet%22+king+dering&pg=PA119 The Monuments and Painted Glass of Upwards of One Hundred Churches, Philip Parsons, Printed by Simmons, Kirkby and Jones, Canterbury, 1794]</ref>