What Kentish village are you?

[ckd]

It turns out that I'm Yorkletts, which is sufficiently small and obscure that it doesn't get a Wikipedia entry of its own, being simply a redirect to Whitstable. (And is therefore clearly less notable than any random Pokémon.)

Yorkletts is just north of the Woodland Trust's new Victory Wood, which is being planted on an area that was only deforested in the early to mid 1900s. This will restore a link between the ancient woodlands of Blean Wood and Ellenden Wood. (Yorkletts is at the northwest extreme of the latter.)

Nicely matching my interest in things nautical and naval, Victory Wood is named for Nelson's ship and is the "flagship" of the multi-site Trafalgar Woods Project.

Comments

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

The area in Prussia my family was hereditary nobles for is gone, WW1 was bad but WW2 completely wiped the holding and village off the face of the earth. I think as much as 80% of the people living there died in one day in '44. My translation from the German records wasn't the best.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Isn't this a lovely little exercise in silliness?