Davington Priory

It sits on Davington Hill, now a northern suburb of Faversham but then an isolated rural location.

It managed to avoid the violence of the dissolution of the monasteries by a natural decline in the early 16th century – the last nun died in 1535.

Cheney was a favourite of Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn, and was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1536.

[1] It was at Davington Priory that David Litvinoff lived from 1972 until 1975, when he ended his life through an overdose of pills.

[3] According to one local, retired publican Terence Boulton, "He's [Geldof] very approachable and doesn't act like a superstar.