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Dog  Fouling

A reminder from the Parish Council

Most dog owners are responsible and conscious of the need to keep their dogs under control and to clear up after them. 

Unfortunately, there are some who are not so conscientious.  Consequently Tunbridge Wells, in common with many other local authorities, has introduced a Public Spaces Protection Order (under the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014).  Although not widely publicized this took effect over a year ago and covers all public spaces throughout the borough.  In Frittenden this applies to all pavements, roadside verges and to the Parish Field.

You can see the full wording of the order on the TWBC website:

TWBC Dog Control Public Spaces Protection Order (tunbridgewells.gov.uk)

but these are the key sections:

  • If a dog defecates in the restricted area a person who is in charge of the dog at the time must remove the faeces from the land forthwith.
  • Placing the faeces in a receptacle on the land* which is provided for the purpose, or for the disposal of waste, shall be sufficient removal from the land.
  • Being unaware of the defecation (whether by reason of not being in the vicinity or otherwise) or not having a device for, or other suitable means of, removing the faeces shall not be a reasonable excuse for failing to remove the faeces.
  • Any person who commits an offence is liable on conviction in the Magistrates’ Court to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale fixed penalty notices (i.e. up to £1,000).
  • An authorised officer may issue a fixed penalty notice of up to £100 to anyone who he or she has reason to believe has committed an offence under the Act.
  • If the fixed penalty notice is not paid the person to whom it is issued remains liable upon conviction to a fine.

*Removal means putting in a litter bin - not hanging the bag to rot on someone else’s hedge.  The Parish Council provides litter bins in the Parish Field and at various points around the village.  There are bag-dispensers in the Field and by the War Memorial in case you forget to bring a bag when walking the dog – but don’t take more than you need at the time, otherwise there won’t be any available for other people.

Tunbridge Wells has a dog warden, who has already helped with the enforcement of this order in other parishes.

 

Dog’s poo is unsightly and an environmental pollutant.  It can contain some very nasty bacteria, viruses and parasitic worms, which cause serious disease in children, pregnant women and the elderly.  It is also a danger to other dogs and farm livestock.

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Despite the fact that Frittenden is not specifically recorded in the Domesday Book (1086), though it is recorded in a Saxon Charter of 804. The den element of the name indicates that it was an area providing temporary pasture, probably from the 6th century, on an annual basis for swine driven down from a place in north Kent. This pasture would have been recorded as a possession of that place in Domesday. There is more doubt about the derivation of first part of the name, but it may come from the name of the man or ‘free coerl’ who used the den, possibly one named Frith. 

The Roman route from Rochester to Hastings via Maidstone passes through the Parish at Knoxbridge. Two Romano-British urns were discovered close to this road in Leggs Wood in 1857. During the rebuilding of the church in 1846-8 several lumps of Roman concrete and fragments of brick were discovered.

Early documentary evidence suggests that the early permanent settlements were on the ridge above the flood plain. The church also stands on this ridge and is first recorded in the White Book of St Augustine’s c1200. By the thirteenth century, dens were becoming satellite communities of the manors to which they belonged. Cole Farm, c1400, is the first surviving indication of settlement in the flood plain. The 1524-5 tax subsidy suggests that the Weald had seen great prosperity during the previous 200 years. This is reflected in the number and quality of medieval listed buildings in the parish. Frittenden was on the margin of the cloth making area centred on Cranbrook and probably benefited from proximity to this industry. The 1806 and 1839 tithe maps show that the village consisted of two main nuclei, the first grouped near the church and the other around the Bell Inn and the forge. Since then these nuclei have been linked by new building.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII there was an explosion in the creation of charities. In 1566, under the will of Thomas Idenden, a charity was established for “the use of the Poor Maidens Marriages, to the relief of the poor Householders” in Frittenden. The property left to support this charity was later to become the parish workhouse and farm. The charity disposed of the property in 1953 and the house is now known as Charity Cottages. The charity continues to make small payments to certain parishioners on St Thomas’ Day.

Farming in the parish has normally been a mixture of pastoral and arable, though the balance has changed considerably over time, notably in the depression following the Napoleonic War when there was a significant movement into arable. This resulted in a longer and deeper depression, well into the 1840s, than might otherwise have been the case. Hops, always a risky crop, became a major crop during the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, but no hops are grown in the parish today. 

Until the 1970s there was a small brickworks in Dig Dog Lane and bricks and tiles from this site were used in many nineteenth and twentieth century buildings.

The Church was almost totally rebuilt by the Revd. Edward Moore and rededicated in 1848. Edward Moore, together with his wife Harriet, had a major impact on the village and indeed how it looks. Their hand can be seen not only in the church, but in the creation of the school, a Provident Society, a Penny Bank and much else besides. Edward Moore, was a major landowner, second only to the Cornwallis Estate. He was also responsible for many buildings in the parish, including the creation of Parsonage Farm, the largest farm at that time.